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	<title><![CDATA[Don't Change the Channel. Change the System.]]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/josh-silver/dont-change-the-channel-c_b_82208.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[<p>Media critic <a href="http://mediamatters.org/columns/200801150004?f=h_column">Eric Boehlert</a> recently summed it up, "Virtually all the corporate press does these days is shallow, polling-based horse-race coverage, and now it can't even get that right." We've all had it with the way elections are covered. We've had it with vapid television news. And we've had it with Groundhog Day-like mea culpas.</p>

<p>Mainstream media -- especially television -- is like an alcoholic that keeps binging, repenting, swearing sobriety, and returning to the bottle. Problem is, it's the...</p>]]></abstract>
	<taxonomy><![CDATA[Media]]></taxonomy>
	<date_published>2008-03-28T02:48:00-04:00</date_published>
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