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WCDT strips 3951-3955 (4th to 8th March 2019)
Gyrre:
--- Quote from: OldGoat on 07 Mar 2019, 07:58 ---{SNIP}
*One function of a free press is to make maintaining ultra-secrecy difficult.
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Is that why the biggest names in news work for corporations owned by billionaires, then?
(Hint: yes)
OldGoat:
--- Quote from: Gyrre on 07 Mar 2019, 08:43 ---
--- Quote from: OldGoat on 07 Mar 2019, 07:58 ---{SNIP}
*One function of a free press is to make maintaining ultra-secrecy difficult.
--- End quote ---
Is that why the biggest names in news work for corporations owned by billionaires, then?
(Hint: yes)
--- End quote ---
Exactly. Our press isn't as free as it ought to be. There are piss few real journalists left, and nearly all US broadcast news organizations are no longer free standing but have been absorbed by the networks' entertainment divisions.
The functions of a free press remain, even if the nation's press fails to fulfill some or all of them.
Tova:
--- Quote from: OldGoat on 07 Mar 2019, 07:58 ---Meat-folks have multiple layers of nominally* ultra-secret entities moving among us, not always aware of what the others are up to.
<snip?
*One function of a free press is to make maintaining ultra-secrecy difficult.
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Not exactly. To make maintaining matters of public interest secret difficult, yes. That's an important qualification, not a pedantic quibble. And yes, what's "of public interest" is always a matter for debate.
In the context of this conversation, there are secret entities that move among us, and it's not considered in the public interest to unmask them.
Rightly or wrongly, freedom of the press does not extend to state secrets.
cesium133:
Cozy.
dreed:
The i-beam is a reference to that guy's bathroom right? :D
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