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I'm assuming their advertising budget counters quite a few articles, or at least tones them down. Many large outlets started by mentioning the problem, then immediately downplaying it with the Sony PR.
OTOH I was surprised at the amount of coverage I've seen on the google news pages. Many are from alternate, overseas, or geek publications, but people are noticing. There was even a byte about Bush stating "they've gone too far."
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There are a vast number of people who are uninformed and heavily propagandized, but fundamentally decent. The propaganda that inundates them is effective when unchallenged, but much of it goes only skin deep. If they can be brought to raise questions and apply their decent instincts and basic intelligence, many people quickly escape the confines of the doctrinal system and are willing to do something to help others who are really suffering and oppressed." -Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, p. 195
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