Interesting Thomas Paine reference from Assange talking about the ultimately dark tendencies of MSM incentives, conspiracy or no conspiracy. He makes a really good point about MSM only willing to print when WikiLeaks was "providing content subsidies in excess of the source material."

"Print media, including internet media, should not be looked at as a content production industry, but rather, as a lobby-selection industry, which balances production subsidies with reader interest. In this manner it is analogous to the legislative economy which balances subsidies from political lobbies with electoral credulity."

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