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Midnight Writer

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1. I spent much of my youth in a beautiful Carnegie Library. It was a wonderful place, and free.

Reply to eppur_se_muova (Original post)

Tue Sep 22, 2020, 03:01 PM

Sep 2020

I would like to see one of these billionaires set up a Trust to fund local journalism.

News outlets that are not funded by advertising, and run by journalists in the public interest, not corporations with their agendas.

Can you imagine hundreds of news outlets across the country that are not struggling to survive?

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'... the State marks its condemnation of the selfish millionaire's unworthy life.' [View all] eppur_se_muova Sep 2020 OP

I spent much of my youth in a beautiful Carnegie Library. It was a wonderful place, and free. Midnight Writer Sep 2020 #1

His philosophy also helped shape public opinion and taxing policies in the US in the first half of BComplex Sep 2020 #2

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