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If we're really talking about the politics of this, why not talk about how Congress is owned by the resource-extraction sector -- the oil, natural gas, and coal industries -- to the point of disarming the EPA, ignoring science, and allowing industry leaders to "write" imaginary "regulations" of itself? That link points to David Brooks's own newspaper, you think he might have read it. It's absolutely clear that he's read industry propaganda and committed key phrases to memory.

And while a corporate-owned media is old news, we are only beginning to question how much big industries own individuals in the media. It's not enough just to examine who openly sponsors shows like Meet the Press. How much PG&E stock does David Brooks own? What energy companies sit in David Gregory's portfolio? Are the cocktails at the Greenspans' Georgetown soirees completely fracking fluid-free? Are these voices benefiting personally from pushing a pro-industry agenda? Ya think?

Why else would their comments and complete lack of follow-up sound like they are written by the industries themselves?

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