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Friend,
Since November, billionaire Michael Bloomberg has spent more than $360 million on campaign ads.
That money went directly into the pockets of the corporate media, and now, those same corporate media outlets are treating Bloomberg as a top contender.
That's not journalism. That's bribery.
Let's face it, American democracy is in crisis, and the corporate media is a huge part of the problem.
CNN and NBC are motivated by profit, just like Dow Chemical or General Motors, and they'll never bite the hand that feeds them.
Remember 2016? Donald Trump generated windfall ratings and TV ads, and the corporate media rewarded him with wall-to-wall saturation coverage of every Trump campaign rally and tweet. As the head of CBS infamously said, Donald Trump's campaign "may not be good for America, but it is damn good for CBS.”
At Common Dreams, we've never accepted a dime of corporate advertising, and we never will.
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