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[–] plancktonne ago 

Anyone who listened in on comms as the propaganda networks packaged their main news programs throughout the afternoon would not be surprised to hear people joyfully say things like, "We've got him now!" in reference to some Republican or conservative figure. It has been that way for the past sixty years, though perhaps not as blatant as now.

When consumers first started using satellites, with big 6-8 foot dishes, they could incidentally also receive the closed, proprietary network feeds as they put the news together and hear some of this. Until numbers of satellite viewers grew and the networks, fearing lawyers would see this as a public broadcast, rather than an internal editorial affair, and sue for defamation, encoded those channels.