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onecaliberal

(36,594 posts) Thu Sep 26, 2024, 10:26 PM Sep 2024

Because it bears repeating. [View all]

https://masto.ai/@lovelylovely/113202541831474219

News anchors looking into camera and reading a script handed down by a corporate overlord, words meant to obscure the truth not elucidate it, isn't journalism. It's propaganda. It's Orwellian. A slippery slope to how despots wrest power, silence dissent,
and oppress the masses.
- Dan Rather

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Because it bears repeating. [View all] onecaliberal Sep 2024 OP

Every time I hear his name duncang Sep 2024 #1

K&R. dchill Sep 2024 #2

K&R Blue Owl Sep 2024 #3

THANK YOU, DAN RATHER--- a holdout from the days when the press Jack Valentino Sep 2024 #4