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> There will always be one journalist without any moral qualms that’ll stay

They’re outed as stooges. That doesn’t matter to the influencer crowd. But I bet this costs the DoD a lot of narrative-shaping power.



I'm growing more convinced that there is a significant subset of the population that wants all of the press to be stooges.


> there is a significant subset of the population that wants all of the press to be stooges

A significant fraction of Americans are addicted to rage bait. They don’t care about accuracy as much as entertainment and ideological predictability.


When they're obviously lying to you, at least you know that they're lying.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vranyo

Known lies can still be effective.




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