• Dagwood222@lemm.ee
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    4 days ago

    After Watergate Americans learned that a free press could bring down a tyrannical government. So the Right got to work destroying the free press.

    Reagan went after the Fairness Doctrine and made it easier for one company to own all the TV and radio stations in a town. The new tech helped destroy the local newspapers.