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GadflyBytes's avatar

I was talking to a reporter for Colorado public radio in a bar back in about 2010. She was, like me at the time, in her early 30s. I told her that the press had abrogated their duty as the fourth estate by helping the US government hide the truth about Iraq in 2003. Her response was that many journalists thought it’d be better for the US if the people were behind the war effort, since we’d be going to war whether anybody supported it or not. No regard whatsoever for the people killed for blood money from weapons sales, not Iraqis or Americans. I was horrified and stopped reading the NY Times immediately, as I realized it was likely the entire organization, not just Judith Miller, in on it. How these journalists can think being in constant war is good for the country, but not m4all, which they constantly undermine, is more frightening and mindboggling to me than a foulmouthed gameshow host. Do they truly believe what they write or are they’re being paid by the military industrial complex and pharma to divide American society for profit? I’d guess it’s a combination.

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Feral Finster's avatar

First they came for Alex Jones....

That was entirely intentional, as Alex Jones was a loon whom nobody wanted to be seen defending. But it was never meant to stop with Alex Jones.

"But Muh ToS!" Of course. A pretext can always be found. That is also entirely intentional.

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