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Holding corporate media accountable for distortions & omissions since 1986. fair.org
"He says he's going to get drug prices down by 800, 900, even 1,500%, and he usefully throws in that 'no one thought it was possible'âwhich is true."
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âTrump Clearly Has No Idea What Heâs Doing When It Comes to the Economyâ:Â CounterSpin interview with Dean Baker on Trumponomics
"There are people around him who want favors, want money, and they're getting it.... He knows how to take bribes, basically."
https://fair.org/home/trump-clearly-has-no-idea-what-hes-doing-when-it-comes-to-the-economy/
about 16 hours ago
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The news from CBS News and Teen Vogue is bad enough for the hardworking journalists who are now jobless. But itâs also another blow to democracy.
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Conde Nast, Paramount Cut Jobsâand Political Dissent
The purge-like firings at Paramount and Conde Nast will have a tremendously negative impact on the already sorry state of political news.
https://fair.org/home/conde-nast-paramount-cut-jobs-and-political-dissent/
about 19 hours ago
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The way the New York Post and Daily News editorial boards approached the election over the past few months vastly differed, reflecting their contrasting methods of opposing progress in New York City.
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Both NYC Tabloids Fought Mamdani, But Each Did It Their Way
The New York Post and Daily News agreed that Zohran Mamdani should not be mayor of New York. But the ways they opposed him vastly differed,
https://fair.org/home/both-nyc-tabloids-fought-mamdani-but-each-did-it-their-way/
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After Zohran Mamdani beat disgraced ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo in this yearâs New York City Democratic mayoral primary, Cuomo, his billionaire backers and corporate media all took a beating. But they picked themselves up, got back in the ring, and lost again.
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Mamdani Beats Cuomo and the Press Hacks (Again)
The cityâs media oligopoly looked to a rejected, corrupt sleazeball to save the city from a fresh-faced progressive who vowed to make life more affordable.
https://fair.org/home/mamdani-beats-cuomo-and-the-press-hacks-again/
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3 days ago
The NYT did do better than the WaPo, however, which did not run a single article about the party â not a news article, not an op-ed, nothing.
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Jim Naureckas
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â'We donât make them like this anymore,' Meacham said, implying this is a bad thing."
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Dick Cheney Doesnât Deserve Your Heartfelt Eulogies
Former Vice President Dick Cheney died Monday night. Now is not the time to whitewash his bloody legacy of war and destruction.
https://theintercept.com/2025/11/04/dick-cheney-death-iraq-war/
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3 days ago
The only people âcontestingâ the genocide label are the ones committing it.
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The dynamic between healthcare media and their Wall Street analyst sources keeps readers focused on the insurance companiesâ need to not spend the money they collect in premiums, rather than paying for what their customers think they paid for.
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Donât Worry, Wall Street JournalâHealth Insurers Are Profitable!
When insurance stock prices dropped sharply, business journalists fretted that private looting of the healthcare system might end.
https://fair.org/home/dont-worry-wall-street-journal-health-insurers-are-profitable/
7 days ago
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Jim Naureckas
7 days ago
Mamdani can't recognize a nearly 50-year-old pop song. But then, Newsday caption writers can't spell "Mamdani."
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The scattered headlines weâre seeing on COP30 â the annual UN climate conference, this year in Brazil â indicate a distressing lack of US media attention to the galloping harms of climate disruption...and their negligence in calling countries and corporations to account.
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Rachel Cleetus on Climate Culpability, Dean Baker on Trumponomics
News media need to locate the climate fight in the boardrooms of greedy people perversely trying to wring every last dime from our shared future.
https://fair.org/home/rachel-cleetus-on-climate-culpability-dean-baker-on-trumponomics/
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8 days ago
I read this entire WaPo article waiting for it to tell me when the last time Russia or China tested a nuclear weapon. Waited in vain, even though the implication of Trumpâs order is that itâs been happening recently (AFAIK itâs been decades).
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Todd (they/them) #AbolishThePolice
8 days ago
âNYTimes has a history of downplaying protestsâŚnearly all corp media have a long history of downplaying major protests over womenâs rights, war, genocide & the climate crisis, while offering much more inkâŚto right-wing ralliesâ ââŚâŞ
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As Millions March Against Fascism, NYT Warns Against Progressives
Two days after massive pro-democracy marches, the New York Times published a forceful message of its ownânot against fascism, but against progressivism.
https://fair.org/home/as-millions-march-against-fascism-nyt-warns-against-progressives/
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James North
10 days ago
The
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Pete Tucker
9 days ago
Hereâs the real history of the 1975 pressmen's strike, not the Post's self-serving version
www.huffpost.com/entry/wash-p...
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Transcript of CounterSpin's interview with Katya Schwenk on AI surveillance pricing: "The airlines, and other people who use these kinds of pricing tools, would like consumers to think that everyoneâs getting their own personalized discount."
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âThey Are Trying to Maximize the Amount of Money They Can Get Any Given Consumer to Payâ:Â CounterSpin interview with Katya Schwenk on AI surveillance pricing
"Consumers don't actually have very much choice in many of these circumstances. So it's not like they're able to choose a lower fare from a competitor, often."
https://fair.org/home/they-are-trying-to-maximize-the-amount-of-money-they-can-get-any-given-consumer-to-pay/
9 days ago
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"It's flagrantly illegal, under both domestic and international law, to summarily kill civilians who are suspected of committing crimes.... These strikes constitute murder, pure and simple."
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âThe Governmentâs Own Disclosures Demonstrate These Strikes Are Not Lawfulâ:Â CounterSpin interview with Jeffrey Stein on Trump's boat attacks
"The public should be able to read the government's legal justification right now, while there's still an opportunity to stop these illegal and dangerous strikes."
https://fair.org/home/the-governments-own-disclosures-demonstrate-these-strikes-are-not-lawful/
10 days ago
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10 days ago
The US is running amok and no one, not Congress, not the media, not the ICC, not the EU, is doing anything about it. When is Tony Blinken going to remind us about the ârules-based international orderâ? When is a single newspaper going to denounce this lawlessness?
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"How will we be able to measure the impact of those cuts to SNAP, our country's extremely successful food support program? How will we measure the impact of these cuts on families who rely on those benefits to be able to put food on the table? We won't."
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âThese Changes Are Reducing Our Power to Effect Positive Change for Familiesâ:Â CounterSpin interview with Cara Brumfield on erasing federal data
"Manipulating the Decennial Census for political gain is so deeply undemocratic, and we need to talk about it in those terms."
https://fair.org/home/these-changes-are-reducing-our-power-to-effect-positive-change-for-families/
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Jim Naureckas
11 days ago
John Dickerson pays the price for questioning CBS's capitulation to MAGA: âCan you hold power to account after paying it millions? Can an audience trust you when it thinks youâve traded away that trust?â
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âCBS Evening Newsâ Co-Anchor John Dickerson to Exit Network
Dickerson, formerly the moderator of 'Face the Nation,' is the first high-profile exit at CBS following the hire of Bari Weiss as editor-in-chief.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/john-dickerson-out-cbs-news-1236410756/
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The Daily Beast
11 days ago
CNN staffers were âtaken abackâ when the CEO suggested easing up on coverage of the East Wingâs demolition, just one day after his private White House meeting.
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Pete Tucker
12 days ago
You gotta hand it to the Post. Anyone can bootlick when it's smooth sailing, but moments like this are what separate the men from the boys
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Jim Naureckas
11 days ago
The New York Daily News gave 13 of the first 14 paragraphs of its story to a Cuomo rally attacking Mamdani--before moving on to a Mamdani rally that drew 40 times as many participants.
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Cuomo, Mamdani rally forces in Queens as mayoral race enters final days
With the cityâs mayoral election racing into the home stretch, Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani and Independent candidate Andrew Cuomo on Sunday held rallies in Queens to make pitches to votâŚ
https://www.nydailynews.com/2025/10/26/cuomo-mamdani-rally-forces-in-queens-as-mayoral-race-enters-final-days/
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12 days ago
After noting that what Trump is doing is illegal, the NYT brings out the whitewash to say heâs âtaking a series of unorthodox stepsâ.
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Jim Naureckas
13 days ago
Fun fact: Tammy Baldwin, one of the four Democratic senators who the
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claims won because they were "moderates," has the 6th leftmost voting record in the Senate.
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The
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As Millions March Against Fascism, NYT Warns Against Progressives
Two days after massive pro-democracy marches, the New York Times published a forceful message of its ownânot against fascism, but against progressivism.
https://fair.org/home/as-millions-march-against-fascism-nyt-warns-against-progressives/
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"They donât like to cover the FBI as a political police force. I mean, part of the reason why J. Edgar Hoover was so successful was he had the media behind him. And itâs still the same way."
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âDecades of National Security Policy Have Gotten Us to Where We Areâ:Â CounterSpin interview with Chip Gibbons on Trump's plan to crush the left
"It's not just that it's written in such a way that it opens the door to political policing. That was the original intent."
https://fair.org/slider/decades-of-national-security-policy-have-gotten-us-to-where-we-are/
13 days ago
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15 days ago
Another day, another example of news priorities shaping public opinion. AP thinks a worthless Vance denial is more newsworthy than an ICJ ruling that Israel has to allow UNRWA to function in Gaza.
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Michael McKeon
14 days ago
this âbroad spectrumâ of outlets represents the fringes of the right, including One America Network, Epoch Times, Gateway Pundit, Human Events, LindellTV, Frontlines and the National Pulse
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The Pentagon is closing its doors to the press, and by extension the rest of the public, at a time of ramping up violence off the coasts of South America--and in American cities.
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Pentagon Creates New Legion of PR Toadies
The Trump administration is throwing real reporters out of the Pentagon even as Trump is using the military in unprecedented ways.
https://fair.org/home/pentagon-creates-new-legion-of-pr-toadies/
14 days ago
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Not everyone is waiting on the White House to puzzle up a new line to sell about why the US military killing unconvicted foreign people, on charges they will never see, is not just OK, but, as JD Vance puts it, âthe highest and best use of our military.â
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Jeffrey Stein on Trumpâs Boat Attacks, Katya Schwenk on AI Surveillance Pricing
Corporate reporters scratch their heads over how this bombing campaign might be legal, rather than discussing what tools can respond to wildly illegal actions.
https://fair.org/home/jeffrey-stein-on-trumps-boat-attacks-katya-schwenk-on-ai-surveillance-pricing/
14 days ago
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Machadoâs award coincided with an escalation of US military threats against Venezuela, meaning that corporate pundits used a âpeaceâ prize as a platform for war propaganda.
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Western Media Use âPeaceâ Prize to Fuel War Propaganda
Rather than scrutinize MarĂa Corina Machado credentials, the media establishment whitewashed the most unpeaceful elements in her background.
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15 days ago
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17 days ago
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Jim Naureckas
22 days ago
The Washington Post is deceptively pushing policies that make it more likely that we will get fascism in Europe. More importantly for Jeff Bezos, they will make it less likely that the rich will have to pay more taxes.
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WaPo Says âHard Mathâ Means Europe Must Lower Its Quality of Life
The idea that France may not be able to afford its social spending is a fantasy Washington Post reporters are presenting to their readers as fact.
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The Washington Post mischaracterizes the French political situation, saying the divide is âbetween those who want the country to change and those who insist it cannot.â The split is actually between those who want to cut social spending and those who want to raise taxes.
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WaPo Says âHard Mathâ Means Europe Must Lower Its Quality of Life
The idea that France may not be able to afford its social spending is a fantasy Washington Post reporters are presenting to their readers as fact.
https://fair.org/home/wapo-says-hard-math-means-europe-must-lower-its-quality-of-life/
22 days ago
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Corporate media outlets leave audiences at the mercy of what are posed as competing "narratives," rather than with a clear understanding of whatâs real and whatâs fake.
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Trumpâs Portland Lies Euphemized as âDueling Versions of Realityâ
When corporate media refuse to call a lie a lie, they enable the Trump administrationâs growing authoritarianism.
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23 days ago
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Establishment media omitted crucial context, overlooked important legal conversations, both-sidesed the delivery of humanitarian aid during a famine, and largely ignored reports of mistreatment endured by detained activists and journalists.
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Flotilla Coverage Both-Sidesed Delivering Food to Starving People
News outlets took care to balance the humanitarian activists trying to bring food to a starving population with defenders of a genocidal regime.
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27 days ago
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Coverage that was centered around the mental health needs of LGBTQ youth, and not a therapistâs interest in self-expression, would look very different.
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NYT Sidelines LGBTQ Youth Again in Conversion Therapy Case
Coverage of the conversion therapy case left out scientific and legal information necessary to understand whatâs at stake for LGBTQ youth.
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28 days ago
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Even now, as Israelâs actions have killed more than 67,000 people in Gaza, US corporate media still twist themselves in knots trying to say that, yes, something very wrong is happening in Gaza â but somehow trying to stop it is worse than enabling and prolonging it.
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Gregory Shupak on Gaza Genocide Denial
Major media suggest we use something other than our own eyes and judgment and humanity to assess the Gaza situation, and how to act in the face of it.
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28 days ago
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As Forbes magazine reported, Jared Kushner is now a billionaire, thanks in part to his âknack for raising funds from high-profile Middle Eastern backers.â In other words, Kushner has literally been utilizing US foreign policy as a vehicle for his own personal enrichment.
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Jared Kushner âOut of the SpotlightââBut Not Out of Mideast Politics, or Out of the Money
There are so many conflicts of interest around Jared Kushner that it's hard to avoid covering them--yet journalists do so remarkably well.
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Denying an unfolding genocide like the one in Palestine is even more contemptible than denying genocides that happened in the past, because an ongoing genocide can be stopped before even more people in the targeted population are killed, maimed and bereaved.
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The Wall Street Journal Has Many Ways to Deny Genocide
Those who deny the Gaza genocide are intellectually and morally equivalent to Holocaust deniers--yet the Wall Street Journal persists in running such denial.
https://fair.org/home/the-wall-street-journal-has-many-ways-to-deny-genocide/
29 days ago
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Pete Tucker
29 days ago
âKimmel is the beginning. Kimmel is not the end.â
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Is this one-sided apologetics for the MAGA Supreme Court a direct result of CBSâs takeover by a Trump-boosting billionaire? Itâs hard to say, but youâd be wise to expect more of this sort of propaganda under the ownership of the Ellisons.
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CBSâs Suck-Up to Barrett May Be a Taste of Propaganda to Come
A softball interview with Trump-appointed Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett provides a glimpse of the kind of journalism we can expect from CBS News now.
https://fair.org/home/cbss-suck-up-to-barrett-may-be-a-taste-of-propaganda-to-come/
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Current Affairs
30 days ago
Right-wingers have been getting books removed from shelves across the United States. But theyâre a fringe minority of weirdos, and they can be beaten. Hereâs how.
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A Librarianâs Guide to Fighting Book Bans
Right-wingers have been getting books removed from shelves across the United States. But theyâre a fringe minority of weirdos, and they can be beaten. Hereâs how.
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Pete Tucker
30 days ago
MAGAâs Little Helpers: Sinclair, Nexstar and the Consolidation of Broadcast TV My latest for
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MAGAâs Little Helpers: Sinclair, Nexstar and the Consolidation of Broadcast TV
Sinclair and Nexstar need to stay in Trumpâs good graces to ensure FCC approvals. To survive, however, their ABC affiliates need national programming.
https://fair.org/home/magas-little-helpers-sinclair-nexstar-and-the-consolidation-of-broadcast-tv/
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Today, a company's stations can't reach more than 39% of US householdsâa reasonable safeguard against, say, an authoritarian putsch. But this sort of media consolidation is precisely what Trump is aiming for, so long as his friends are in charge, as they increasingly are.
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MAGAâs Little Helpers: Sinclair, Nexstar and the Consolidation of Broadcast TV
Sinclair and Nexstar need to stay in Trumpâs good graces to ensure FCC approvals. To survive, however, their ABC affiliates need national programming.
https://fair.org/home/magas-little-helpers-sinclair-nexstar-and-the-consolidation-of-broadcast-tv/
30 days ago
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OlĂşfáşšĚmi O. TĂĄĂwò
30 days ago
We know more about the massive military-style raid on a Chicago housing complex thanks to the reporting of
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@blockclubchi.bsky.social
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Todd (they/them) #AbolishThePolice
about 1 month ago
âFree speech is a right that only belongs 2 the right peopleâŚIf youâre the wrong sort of person, using your speech to âsilenceâ the good kind of speechâwhich is to say, to criticize itâŚthen we have to kill free speech in order to save itâ
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Under Trump, Criticism Is Now Criminal
After the killing of right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk, Trump escalated his war on free speech, calling for criminalizing criticism of himself.
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Santita Jackson
about 1 month ago
Hmmm:On CNN,Stephen Miller slips&says the Prez has "plenary authority"-COMPLETE AUTHORITY -over the military.He freezes, acts as if he can't hear the feed: Then CNN removed this from the broadcast.
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Meidas_Charise Lee on X: "And CNN removed it from the broadcastâźď¸ VERY DECEPTIVE JOURNALISM on their partâźď¸ https://t.co/eKuTTm4ek9" / X
And CNN removed it from the broadcastâźď¸ VERY DECEPTIVE JOURNALISM on their partâźď¸ https://t.co/eKuTTm4ek9
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