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4. Yes but good luck. Don't rely on media. Citizens must organize

Reply to Roland99 (Original post)

Fri Nov 9, 2018, 12:30 AM

Nov 2018

The media is going to roll over, they’re weak and supine.

Don’t count on them doing anything real.

Citizens must organize.

Read @jayrosen_nyu for more discussion of media supineness.

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Chilling Twitter thread re: journalists under fire. They MUST stick together! [View all] Roland99 Nov 2018 OP

Melissa Chan is spot on. First they came for... iluvtennis Nov 2018 #1

Thank you, Roland99 Haggis for Breakfast Nov 2018 #2

What can the DU community do collectively? DemocracyMouse Nov 2018 #5

K&R alwaysinasnit Nov 2018 #3

Yes but good luck. Don't rely on media. Citizens must organize sharedvalues Nov 2018 #4

Yeah. Doesn't seem to be much chatter about solidarity Roland99 Nov 2018 #7

Hang together or else hang separately. Sound advice for us all PatrickforO Nov 2018 #6

Ah, so no wonder Fucker Carlson did his false flag video claiming they were Antifa uponit7771 Nov 2018 #8

Any evidence it was false flag? Achilleaze Nov 2018 #9

None I've seen. And it seems odd to pick him tho Roland99 Nov 2018 #12

Bennie Franklin has a free clue for blow-dry corporate journos Achilleaze Nov 2018 #10

K&R... spanone Nov 2018 #11

K&R Jeffersons Ghost Nov 2018 #13

anybody twitted that thread to CNN, et. al.? Hermit-The-Prog Nov 2018 #14

hmmm elmac Nov 2018 #15