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by no_butterscotch 1059 days ago
Yes additionally journalists are a sort of priestly caste in our secular society.

I'm personally not a fan as there's a lot of self-anointed representation by journos: "We're the voice of the people!" No you are not my voice! You are not elected! You are the voice of advertisers, your business and your political interests!
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SV_BubbleTime 1059 days ago
WaPo runs “Democracy dies in darkness” while parroting the absolute lie that was Hunter Biden’s laptop was “Russian Dissinformation”… that imo takes extra arrogance beyond just “we’re the voice of the people” or CNN’s “This might be illegal for you to read but we can because we are trained journalists”.
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meowface 1059 days ago
I don't believe WaPo ever claimed that. They wrote this in October 2020: https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/10/24/hunter-bid...

>Insisting that the Hunter Biden laptop is fake is a trap. So is insisting that it’s real.

That's not saying it's Russian disinformation. Just that it's unconfirmed to be either disinformation or real. (Which, at the time, was the correct assessment.)

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SV_BubbleTime 1058 days ago
That’s fun that after their initial reporting [0] they left some wiggle room out while saying that it couldn’t possibly be verified except for all the ways it was verified long after the election.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/hunter-joe-biden-ema...

The initial reporting days earlier didn’t use the exact phrase “Russian Disinformation” it did take a least half a dozen times say Russian Intelligence.

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