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The heyday of the newspaper also had disastrous consequences for democracy, such as the Spanish-American War.

Lest we forget NYT being used as a mouthpiece for Dick Cheney and forming the foundation of the invasion of Iraq. I'll stump for the importance of journalism at any level (esp. the local level) but the willingness of major outlets to accept and regurgitate anything from cops/3-letter orgs is absolutely confounding.

Reminds me of when every US newspaper basically plainly copied what the gov said about the strikes against Kata'ib Hezbollah being in response to a hit and run toyota-rocket attack of theirs on a US base.

Not a soul that took note of the fact that Kata'ib had denied any involvement or that this happened very far away from where they held power and deep in territory with an enemy local group that had instantly claimed the attack.

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