healyn on Nostr: Newspapers had no problem with referring to the Watergate mole as "Deep Throat", but ...
Newspapers had no problem with referring to the Watergate mole as "Deep Throat", but imagine a modern day Trump administration Mark Felt-type person went by "Squirt City Vol. 3"?
You couldn't print that in the Grey Lady, not these days
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