# Big Media's failure to fulfil fourth estate function in 2012 election

<http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/nov/07/big-media-failure-fourth-estate-election>

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- Saved: November 8, 2012 (2012-11-08T23:50:52Z)
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## What Jamie wrote

If media organizations want to know why they are struggling they should be thinking about this type of coverage more.

<blockquote>
What's in those undisclosed tax returns? The likeliest explanation: the documents contain material so damaging that it would have torpedoed Romney's candidacy. But because the press turned into a lapdog at a time when the public desperately needed a watchdog, future candidates got the message that they, too, could keep such information from the electorate.
</blockquote>

## Facts

- Kind: [Page](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/page/)

## Same host

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## Elsewhere

- Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/nov/07/big-media-failure-fourth-estate-election