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CrispyQ

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4. Does the media think if we go full-on authoritarian it will be business as usual?

Reply to ck4829 (Original post)

Mon May 9, 2022, 08:42 AM

May 2022

If they need a horse race for ratings, what happens when we have a dictatorship? If only one view is ever allowed to be presented to the people, why would we need all the media outlets we have?

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