The networks are not some chicken-coop manufacturing lobby whose calls nobody returns.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Media networks have real political power and influence.
- In plain terms
- TV networks have real political power.
- What can you take from it?
- Media networks wield significant political influence.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- How much power should media have over politics?
Another view
Not all networks use power the same way.
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The liberal intelligentsia has allowed its party to become a captive of corporate interests.
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