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How Trump Derangement Gave Birth To The Censorship-Industrial Complex
The Federalist ^ | 02/24/2023 | Margot Cleveland

Posted on 02/24/2023 10:05:19 AM PST by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 02/24/2023 10:05:19 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
As NY Times Reporter Jim Rutenberg said in a 2016 article on reporting on Trump:

"[It is time] to throw out the objectivity American journalism has been using for the better part of the past half-century, if not longer, and approach [Trump] in a way you’ve never approached anything in your career."

2 posted on 02/24/2023 10:16:17 AM PST by Alas Babylon! (Gov't declaring misinformation is tyranny: “Who determines what false information is?” )
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To: Alas Babylon!
oh, I left out the part:

Because?

Orange man bad. Then ole Jim listed all the lies and innuendo about Trump that passed for reporting in the DNCMedia since 2015.

So you see, you build a strawman of "Orangeman Bad", then propose to cover him by making up even more lies because "Orangeman SO bad!"

3 posted on 02/24/2023 10:19:02 AM PST by Alas Babylon! (Gov't declaring misinformation is tyranny: “Who determines what false information is?” )
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To: Alas Babylon!

I remember at the time reading that line from the New York Times editorial board how it shook me to my core (as someone who in an earlier life pursued a career in journalism).

Those words should echo in everyone’s ears every time they read anything political or cultural from “the paper of record “.


4 posted on 02/24/2023 10:29:47 AM PST by aligncare ( Make America Great Again with Trump 2024)
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To: SeekAndFind

The underlying premise is that if can prohibit speech and ideas that the establishment doesn’t like, that will stop people from believing them.

when has that ever worked?

It certainly did not prevent Christians from practising their faith, neither in ancient times or as re only as under the former USSR. It won’t work now either, it just drives the activity underground and motivates people to keep doing it even more.


5 posted on 02/24/2023 10:36:32 AM PST by bigbob
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To: Alas Babylon!

Abandoning all aspects objective journalism to weaponize information to achieve the ‘Progressive’ agenda. They got tired of the Long March.


6 posted on 02/24/2023 10:38:56 AM PST by griswold3 (Truth, Beauty and Goodness )
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To: bigbob

You can never hide the truth forever.


7 posted on 02/24/2023 10:40:16 AM PST by griswold3 (Truth, Beauty and Goodness )
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To: SeekAndFind

A local radio host did an interview with Dr. Robert Malone about the Covid vaccines.He put it on YouTube and it was taken down within an hour.


8 posted on 02/24/2023 10:43:25 AM PST by DLfromthedesert ( )
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To: SeekAndFind

Had thought Trump coined the phrase “fake news”, but... whatevs.


9 posted on 02/24/2023 10:43:40 AM PST by one guy in new jersey
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