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It’s worth saying again: Independent media matters. Your job and nothing short of this industry’s future depends on it.

Mediaite took note of this fact this past week, highlighting Richard Rushfield’s leading coverage of the Paramount-WBD merger in a moment where most other media mindlessly accepts it as a done deal — even cheerleading it — no questions…