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Reporters have information that is vital to democracy but they withhold it for years instead of you know informing the public so they can enrich themselves?
How are these people any better than trump or the despicable bastards they write about?
gab13by13
(21,402 posts)If you are speaking of Trump and the 25th Amendment.
uponit7771
(90,363 posts)onecaliberal
(32,894 posts)Report the story WHEN YOU GET IT. Not 4 year later when it fucks everyone over and you get to enrich yourself while democracy burns to the ground.
Evolve Dammit
(16,763 posts)gab13by13
(21,402 posts)dug up on Trump and his coup plotters has come from reporters, nothing I can think of came from the DOJ. State AG's are doing a decent job, I think, we shall see. Sure hope the feds are doing secret investigations we don't know about.
yorkster
(1,506 posts)is the perhaps the worst case. Trump tells him that the coronavirus is really bad, "it's airborne, Bob" and we hear this months later when Woodward is pushing his damn book. And at that point hundreds of thousands have died. With more to come. Criminal frankly...or should be.
Why couldnt they have told somebody. Oh got it. Got to save it for his book hes going to publish after dump is out of office.
3Hotdogs
(12,406 posts)DanieRains
(4,619 posts)And said nothing before the re-election of Bush.
I watched him apologize on tv a half hour after I left a voice-mail calling him out for not reporting the truth.
yorkster
(1,506 posts)FoxNewsSucks
(10,435 posts)He should be charged as an accomplice along with MF45 and anyone else who let covid spread. Hundreds of thousands of people are dead because of those assholes.
Pepsidog
(6,254 posts)bluecollar2
(3,622 posts)Are there any objective reporters or news sources in America today?
onecaliberal
(32,894 posts)Cable you can count on one hand.
bluecollar2
(3,622 posts)And the BBC...
onecaliberal
(32,894 posts)I cant take the million micro aggressions daily against democracy.
mountain grammy
(26,648 posts)So much for a "free press." Nothing's free with these greedy bastards.