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Jun 29, 2021, 8 tweets

HAHAHA this article is amazing and definitely worth reading, primarily for the insight it provides into the lifestyle and mindset of the elite population that comprises most of mainstream western journalism today.

This is the kind of news reporting that's been shaping the western Syria narrative for years.

"Rather than retract her bogus dispatch, Newsweek quietly issued what might have been one of the longest corrections in journalistic history: a 168-word, seven-sentence mini-essay that read as follows:"

Some insight into the perks which come with having the money and family connections to get into an elite journalism school:

Again, this is most of the journalists shaping mainstream public perception in the western world today.

The boys had a lot of fun writing this one.

OMFG LMAO

“Indeed, the defendants called the plaintiff sloppy and irresponsible – but the statements that the defendants made were in response to an article which the plaintiff wrote which contained factually incorrect information. That is not and cannot be defamation,” the judge concluded

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