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Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

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The Washington Times, Uh, This Isn't a Story.

The ideal in journalism is that something should be relatively independent, like pro-publica. But the reality is a lot of these papers can be heavily influenced by three big things. The political ideas and other investments of their owners, shout out to the Hearst enterprise,. That's a huge thing. And then, of course, three, the one that people don't like to talk about, even in the States where freedom of press is a big thing. Uh, the FBI, CIA, they have this network of contacts where they go to the editors or he goes to the shareholder - so you're totally it's, we'd rather you not report some things but if you must, this

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