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FCC Probing Cable On Channel Moves

Columbia Journalism Review | by TVNewsCheck

Dan Froomkin: “If the extraordinary secrecy that has spread throughout our government since 9/11 is what makes it difficult to hold a public debate on an issue as central as government surveillance of its citizenry, then the media’s role should be to push back against that secrecy. And the media’s most powerful weapon is not editorials that few people read or appeals to sympathy that few people have. Our most powerful weapon is reporters.”