Doug Baker on Nostr: The recent refusal by #WAPO and the #LATimes to endorse a presidential candidate ...
The recent refusal by #WAPO and the #LATimes to endorse a presidential candidate suggests to me that two of America's newspapers of record don't care about the First Amendment, if we connect just a very few dots.
Thoughts?
It tells me, at least, that whatever power the press once held is now with the oligarchs.
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