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I think the whole impartiality canard is probably why more people in other countries read newspapers than do in America… if that’s even true any more. Bias is bad because it manipulates readers. But being manipulated is what makes reading *fun*, isn’t it?

I have been in the tabloids too long.

( from The View from Nowhere: Questions and Answers » Pressthink)
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