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SunSeeker

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4. "The mainstream media helped elect him through its constant attention to his every utterance."

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Sat Aug 25, 2018, 08:22 AM

Aug 2018

True, but only because it was coupled with a concomitant failure to call out each such utterance as a lie. THAT was the key help they gave him. They became his megaphone, instead of practicing actual critical journalism.

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Two key things Wilson's article does not address or confess.. KY_EnviroGuy Aug 2018 #19