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elehhhhna

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26. Also, we were brought up watching our parents watch the news, read the papers

Fri Oct 11, 2013, 09:01 PM

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(many of us, anyway) and hearing the benefits of a free press in our public schools during history class. I grew up respecting the press and believing much more than appropriate. Until I was interviewed by a nationally known columnist who got super drunk then fabricated quotes galore to me. I was ~22 years old. I became a much more careful and discriminating reader after that.

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