You'd be hard pressed to convince me that free market economics has anything to do with what choices consumers are presented any more, especially in the media. Back when there was more diversity of ownership, you could make a case that some kind of consumer preference was at work, but these days? It's not a choice between CNN and Indymedia, it's a choice between TV based reporting, and web based reporting. And no one's really tracking how much news we get through the web.
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That's what they want to tell us