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Capital Gazette Murders
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donald tRUmp's rhetoric
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state controlled propaganda outlets that lie on command
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embedded PR flacks at supposedly free press organizations
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Peter Thiel attack on Gawker
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TV execs to stupid or lazy or complicit to care they are elevating non-experts to positions of authority
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American citizens exhausted by nonstop information warfare/warp speed newscycle
A decimation of the valuation of real, actual journalism in this country which has led to mass layoffs of the journalistic workforce
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Exhaustive workload for the few remaining real journalists who are still employed
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news consumers who don't know how to determine what news outlets/journalists to trust
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destruction of the Fourth Estate
destruction of the Constitution
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TREASON.