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> it also let professional journalists vet the sources, and while they sometimes got it wrong, they were right far more often than a layperson. It also lets p
by RcouF1uZ4gsC 5y ago
> it also let professional journalists vet the sources, and while they sometimes got it wrong, they were right far more often than a layperson.
It also lets professional journalists cover up atrocities. Speaking of the Ukraine, Walter Duranty was a journalist for the New York Times who covered up Stalin’s genocide of over 3 million people in what is now the Ukraine. He was celebrated and even won a Pulitzer Prize.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Duranty https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Duranty
- dragonwriter 5y ago> Speaking of the Ukraine Outside of Russian propaganda, it's just “Ukraine” not “the Ukraine”. > Walter Duranty was a journalist for the New York Times who covered up Stalin’s genocide of over 3 million people in what is now the Ukraine. It was Ukraine then, too.
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- YATA0 5y ago>Outside of Russian propaganda, it's just “Ukraine” not “the Ukraine”. That is false. https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-18233844 https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-18233844