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The '''press''' is the amorphous institution also known as the news [[media]].
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The '''press''' is the amorphous institution also known as the news [[media]], which collects and disseminates news, commentary and advertising.  Beginning with newspapers in the colonial era, it expanded to magazines in the mid-19th century, radio in the 1920s, television in the 1940s, and the Internet in the 1980s.
  
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== Liberal Bias ==
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In the [[Recession of 2008]] newspapers have entered an economic crisis, as advertising has plunged and many papers are in or near bankruptcy.
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The press is largely controlled by small, otherwise disenfranchised factions of American society like atheists.{{fact|date=January 2008}}  This subject is covered extensively in the article on [[liberal bias]].  [[Fox News]] is a possible counterweight to the liberal bias, but has itself become increasingly liberal of late.{{fact|date=January 2008}}
 
  
 
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Revision as of 07:10, May 17, 2009

The press is the amorphous institution also known as the news media, which collects and disseminates news, commentary and advertising. Beginning with newspapers in the colonial era, it expanded to magazines in the mid-19th century, radio in the 1920s, television in the 1940s, and the Internet in the 1980s.

In the Recession of 2008 newspapers have entered an economic crisis, as advertising has plunged and many papers are in or near bankruptcy.

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