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2016 Postmortem

VulgarPoet

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3. Yeesh.

Reply to Cerridwen (Reply #2)

Mon May 2, 2016, 02:06 PM

May 2016

Yeah no, I'm firmly convinced save maybe two actual practitioners of the craft, "journalism" has been toe-tagged since the late nineties. Left wing and right wing both. American Journalism is a dead art, as far as I'm concerned.

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If "news" headlines were honest. cbs "news:" "We came, we saw, we lied." [View all] Cerridwen May 2016 OP

That's your first mistake: expecting honesty. nt VulgarPoet May 2016 #1

Actually, I don't expect honesty. I expect cherry-picked facts Cerridwen May 2016 #2

Yeesh. VulgarPoet May 2016 #3

K&R! Cha May 2016 #4

Thank you, Cha. Cerridwen May 2016 #6

K&R! DemonGoddess May 2016 #5

Thank you. :) Cerridwen May 2016 #7

kick n/t Cerridwen May 2016 #8

Wow. Missed this the first time. Interesting how Pravda and RT jumped in and twisted things ..... bettyellen Sep 2016 #9

Hey, bettyellen. Yeah. During that time, I learned Russia had a lot of business dealings... Cerridwen Sep 2016 #10