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Kid Berwyn

(22,106 posts)
8. Trump wants to dump Spain from NATO was just one insane headline...
Fri Oct 10, 2025, 10:25 AM
Friday

...the thing is, Trump is destroying the country so fast, on so many fronts and levels, from within and without, and looting the Treasury and putting the US taxpayer on the hook for his various treasons I need a supercomputer to keep up. That used to be the press' job -- the only enterprise, or business, actually mentioned by name in the Constitution.

First Amendment
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.


Today it's a question of reach, as well as freedom of speech. MSNBC's most popular show, Rachel Maddow, gets under a million views. Fox News, broadcasting largely over stations once aligned with CBS Network, has several million viewers. It didn't have to be this way, but the repeal of the Fairness Doctrine and various laws limiting media ownership serve the people who love to see their money grow no matter whose nation gets destroyed. And they now own almost all the major sources of news. Thank goodness for Bloomberg.

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