Freedom of speech now no longer applies to the press? Thomas Paine’s writins of Common Sense might beg tp differ.

  • damnthefilibuster@lemmy.world
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    19 hours ago

    This is what MSM gets for bending over backwards to support the war. Rather than accolades for toeing the line, they get threatened for speaking even an ounce of truth.

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      18 hours ago

      And this is why I’m glad I no longer watch TV.

      (though in reality, the separation came in 1999 when we got broadband internet)

      Time for everyone with folks over 45 that still tune in and watch broadcast news to drop them stories like this and ask them if this was how the Soviet Union used to behave. Even better if you’ve got grandparents in their 60’s.

      Put that reminder into their heads. Seriously.

      It’s time to set the mental foxes into the henhouses of complacency.

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        11 hours ago

        I’m glad my elderly relatives actually came from across the iron curtain. We don’t agree on much politically, but they saw the signs ever since Trump1.0, and recognized them for what they were.

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        15 hours ago

        I have no sympathy for MSM at all. They’ve always bowed down to their billionaire masters on what to report & what not to report. They wonder why people like myself turn to independent media & podcasts for actual news.