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Morgan Freeman on Baltimore Protest Coverage: ‘F-ck the Media’
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...“Cameras actually distort the story. The story already happened. The story began with policy and apexed with Freddie Gray’s death. The story is simple. Gray died in state custody. Unlikely a...
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First They Came for the Anti-Vaxxers
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The manipulation of the conversation around vaccines in the mainstream media has been nothing short of a tour de force. If you read only mainstream publications, you might come away with the impres...
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Peter Oborne - Why I have resigned from the Telegraph
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The coverage of HSBC in Britain's Daily Telegraph is a fraud on its readers. If major newspapers allow corporations to influence their content for fear of losing advertising revenue, democracy itself...
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Why Do People Trust Wikipedia? Because An Argument Is Better Than A Lecture
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Many people trust Wikipedia much more than "official" encyclopedias and traditional news sources. Well, no shit. That's because, as I've been trying to scream at you people for...