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Episode 38: "America This Week," with Matt Taibbi and Walter Kirn

America This Week

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Google Pays the New York Times for Preferential Placement

So far, it seems to me that the mainstream has done a pretty good job of protecting its turf. Just as China, Russia, India, and Brazil, et cetera, have started rearranging the global landscape, maybe there's going to be a more power diversity in the domestic media landscape. But at this point, ever since they started doing this thing with Project Owl, where they're elevating authoritative content and suppressing alternative content,. What we've seen is that if you go on a Google search and you enter almost any term, the first 40 or 50 things you get are going to be from sources that you probably don't like very much or you don't entirely trust.

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