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Journalists' first obligation is not to the truth

Journalists' first obligation is not to justice

Journalists' first obligation is to selling copies

And to crib a line from Ronald Wilson Reagan, "if it takes a bloodbath [to sell those copies], so be it"
April 4, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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It was the same implicit threat they used time after time talking about the prosecution against Trump, and given Garland's slow-rolling, it sure seems to have worked

Our press are terrorists in the most literal possible sense of the word
April 4, 2025 at 5:50 AM
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Like, the Economist isn't even trying to say she's not guilty

The message is "yeah, she did it, and you should let her keep doing it, because if you don't we're going to help whip up a crowd of fascist revolutionaries to reject the election and behead Macron on the Champs-Elysees"
April 4, 2025 at 5:49 AM