Thank you for following up on that in my absence, dc.
That is exactly what I am referring to. Used to be, there was a bar of legitimacy and at least a semblance of neutrality that one had to meet in order to be taken seriously as a journalist.
It's sad to see yet another stake in the underpinning of American culture be so willingly flushed down the toilet.
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