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More and more unlikely to happen now that local newspapers and tv are no longer paying for investigative journalism. It's click bait all the way, and a story ab
by socialist_coder 10y ago
More and more unlikely to happen now that local newspapers and tv are no longer paying for investigative journalism. It's click bait all the way, and a story about local bribery is just not bringing in the clicks. As the creator of The Wire recently said, it's a great time to be a corrupt state or city politician.
- ethbro 10y agoI feel like pre-1870s America would have been pretty good too, considering you could flat out buy an NYPD position, among other things. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Civil_Service_Reform https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Civil_Service_Reform