• limer@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      2 days ago

      Yes, the mainstream press is equivalent to a government owned press.

      Perhaps in a literal fashion too since all of these are owned by oligarchs who own the government. They have the same masters, he and the press.

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        16 hours ago

        The JFK files that trump stupidly forced to be released with no redactions, confirms that the CIA has deals with news companies to make the CIA and Government in general look better in the press.

        We haven’t had a free press in half a century or more.

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          11 hours ago

          We had small independent newspapers by the hundreds in the 1970s; and that was better than the handful of companies now.