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	<title>Comments on: The Dumbing Down of America</title>
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		<title>By: leo</title>
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		<description>&quot;The long term way to stay in news now appears to be held privately...&quot;

Exactly.  I think the corporate model of multi-tiered media empires where the newspapers get flipped around every couple of years with yet more added-on debt has been a disaster.

It&#039;s funny.  A lot of these papers were privately owned maybe a generation or two back.</description>
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<p>Exactly.  I think the corporate model of multi-tiered media empires where the newspapers get flipped around every couple of years with yet more added-on debt has been a disaster.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s funny.  A lot of these papers were privately owned maybe a generation or two back.</p>
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