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    In a follow-up email to me, Greenwald noted the similarities between Fox News' overt role in U.S. politics with places like Venezuela, where the opposition TV station led the failed 2002 coup attempt against Hugo Chavez, as well as Italy, where Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, a media magnate, uses his TV ownership to agitate. "Roger Ailes and Rupert Murdoch are really using that model to organize and galvanize this protest movement ... It's a totally Fox News-sponsored event." Completely detached from traditional newsroom standards, Fox News has become a political institution, and the press needs to start treating it that way. Full Article at Media Matters for America
    Roger Ailes and Rupert Murdoch are really using that model to organize and galvanize this protest movement ... It's a totally Fox News-sponsored event.
    SOURCE: Media Matters for America 1 month ago
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    SOURCE: Media Matters for America 1 month ago

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