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Part Two: The Deadliest School in History

Behind the Bastards

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The Media's War in El Salvador

The Wall Street Journal ran a lengthy editorial titled, The Media's War. Americans were badly confused about the situation in El Salvador, thanks to the US press. Ray Bonner was pulled out of Central America by the Times and sent back to New York for more training and journalism. He gets called a communist basically, because that's what they do. It doesn't matter how biased you are or aren't. They're going to call you a communist if you're reporting on things that are bad to them. So yeah, it worked. This is the same thing that Trump administration does now. It always works extremely well. And of course he starts to attack. That's how it wasn't

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