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24. This! (Leith's post)

Tue May 17, 2022, 07:28 PM

May 2022

I was of that generation & the war coverage was a substantial factor.
We also had the Fairness Doctrine.

People felt a moral duty to report the truth. Not save it for a tell a book for profit. We have fallen as a nation in so many ways.

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