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Month: April 2016

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Corbyn’s Millions – Blair’s Millions

20th April 2016

While ‘social media’ like Facebook and Twitter are forms of corporate media, it is unarguable that they and other web-based outlets have helped empower a serious challenge to traditional print and broadcast journalism. For the →

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Last Chance President – Bernie Sanders And The Corporate Media

8th April 2016

The comedian Billy Connolly once observed that politicians aren’t like the rest of us. They don’t look like us, don’t sound like us, and they rarely talk about issues that matter deeply to mere voters. →

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