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To the public, the press is not David among Goliaths it has become one of the Goliaths, Big Media, a combination of powerful television networks, large magazine groups and newspaper chains that are near-monopolies.

Thomas B. Griffith

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Thomas B. Griffith
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: July 5
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