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2/9/15 Mike King, Mainstream News Media: Is It Dying? Super Bowl & Brian Williams

Mike King, our resident historian, author, and watchdog of the media, ESPECIALLY The New York Slimes, Mike King is our guest this program.

First, we took a look at the stunning story that Mr. Squeeky Clean” Brian Williams of NBC News has been lying for almost 12 years about an incident that he claimed he was part of during the Iraq war. He had even referenced the experience the week before he was outed. Now, many of Williams’ claims are being examined. He has temporarily stepped down so that things can “cool off” but was he thrown under the bus for some unknown reason? 

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Is the Mainstream Media Dying? By Michael Snyder

Mainstream Media DyingRatings at CNN, MSNBC and Fox News have all been plummeting in recent years, and newspaper ad revenues are about a third of what they were back in the year 2000.  So is the mainstream media dying?  Despite what you may have heard, the mainstream media is certainly not completely dead just yet.  The average American watches approximately 153 hours of television a month, and as I pointed out in a previous article, about 90 percent of the "information" that is endlessly pumped into our heads through our televisions is controlled by just six gigantic media corporations.  However, there are a whole host of signs that things are changing – especially when it comes to news.  More Americans than ever are losing faith in the establishment-controlled media and are seeking out alternative sources of information.  Is this a trend that the big media companies are going to be able to reverse at some point?

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