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Related: About this forumBlaming The Media: Gianforte's Attack Is A Dangerous Moment
May 25, 2017
Are journalists now fair game for not just verbal assaults, but physical attacks as well? Where can we draw the line?
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Blaming The Media: Gianforte's Attack Is A Dangerous Moment (Original Post)
L. Coyote
May 2017
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Mme. Defarge
(8,935 posts)1. A frightening and serious development.
magicarpet
(18,464 posts)2. Authoritarian and Fascist governments desire....
......the total elimination of a free press and want instead a fully subservient and compliant and finely tuned propaganda machine in their place.
Bye-bye democracy as we know it and cherish it.
Mussolini and his henchmen have grabbed the reins of the USA government with the goal of unfathomable and limitless glutton like self enrichments exclusively for themselves and their chosen associates to the exclusion of all others.
MAGA - USA ~ USA ~ USA.
tomhagen
(3,604 posts)3. Journalism simply seeks facts. BTW take away Gianfortes guns.
And Arm the Media