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Be not misled about Russia-gate, The Washington Post editorial board wrote Tuesday morning. "It is no longer disputable."
The analogy with mainstream media regurgitating fraudulent "facts" on Weapons of Mass Destruction before the invasion of Iraq is complete. How many recall then-Secretary of State Colin Powell telling the world on February 5, 2003 that his evidence and conclusions were "irrefutable and undeniable."
Hardly New
John Swinton, a prominent journalist in New York in 1880, at a banquet, reportedly responded to a toast to the "independent press," by saying: "There is no such thing as an independent press. You know it and I know it. " What folly is this toasting an independent press?
"We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks; they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes."
Plus ca change ...
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