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struggle4progress

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Sat Jul 16, 2016, 12:32 AM Jul 2016

Trump and Pence share contempt for media

By DYLAN BYERS
Posted: 2:37 PM, July 14, 2016
Updated: 3:04 PM, July 14, 2016

... Early last year, Pence made plans to launch his own state-run, taxpayer-funded news site called "Just IN," which would publish stories about Pence and his administration written by state press secretaries. Pence even brought in a former Indianapolis Star reporter to oversee the project.

Unfortunately for Pence, the idea died on the spot. News of his plan, which was broken by Tom LoBianco of the Indianapolis Star -- now a CNN reporter -- caused an immediate uproar as critics berated what they described as Pence's propaganda machine. The Atlantic dubbed the idea "Pravda on the Plains." Pence quickly announced he was canceling the project ...


http://www.ksat.com/news/trump-pence-share-contempt-for-media

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Scary to us, but R voters may love neither one wants to answer to anyone but thier own echo Person 2713 Jul 2016 #5

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5. Scary to us, but R voters may love neither one wants to answer to anyone but thier own echo
Sat Jul 16, 2016, 10:38 PM
Jul 2016

As if that's a good thing

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