mainstream reporters and editors and publishers are well aware that telling the truth and continuing to pound on it would undermine a basic institution of society.
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when hard rains fall, the media are there with an umbrella to hold over organized society�s head. to walk away in the middle of a downpour would leave the status quo unprotected. .