Brent Budowsky: The Vast TV Wasteland

With the 2012 campaign in high gear, public distrust of politics and media at high levels, 55 percent of Americans believing we are in a recession or depression (according to a recent Gallup poll) and our political discourse reaching freak-show lows with a media circus starring Donald Trump Loading... , it can be instructive to look back a half-century in time . . . Read more

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With the 2012 campaign in high gear, public distrust of politics and media at high levels, 55 percent of Americans believing we are in a recession or depression (according to a recent Gallup poll) and our political discourse reaching freak-show lows with a media circus starring Donald Trump, it can be instructive to look back a half-century in time.

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