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As a senior in college, I was fortunate enough to take part in a journalist exchange in the Soviet Union. A group of students and writers from the Times, Post, Chicago Tribune and WSJ spent the spring semester studying in Moscow and (then) Leningrad. As a student who had been drilled with the notion of objectivity and the sanctity of the 4th Estate (I was once marked down on an article for describing a fire as having flames shooting high into the sky, rather than quantifying objectively the size of the flames), I was shocked to learn that in the USSR, the media was actually PROUD of their role as mouthpiece for the state, defending perpetual revolution (read "resistance", "woke", critical race theory, etc).

There are few students of journalism or true practitioners of REAL journalism that can see today's media - both new and established - as anything more than I saw Pravda and Izvestia 4 decades ago. The Press that for centuries served its critical role as the 4th Estate has surrendered that role in favor of the Murdochian model of money grubbing, vulgar culture-making, and lapdogging for the neoliberals and neoconservatives that have so thoroughly corrupted every corner of our government.

Of course they object to Substack. They object to ANY free and critical thinking and to ANY information whose flow they themselves don't control. They are a contemptible lot of authoritarian tools whose scorn should be worn as a badge of honor. Clearly you and your cohorts at Substack are doing something right. Please keep it up.

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Chris Cuomo was allowed to cover his own brother's governorship, fawningly interview him multiple times, and cover up his order sending COVID-infected patients into nursing homes.

What was that she was saying about journalistic ethics?

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