Anyone with more than two brain cells knows that the government lies and has been doing so for many, many years.
What's so disappointing is that our so-called independent press is supposed to be a check on this. What a joke!
Thomas Jefferson and the other founds got most everything right -- but this one slipped through the cracks.
“Thomas Jefferson and the other founds got most everything right — but this one slipped through the cracks.”
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Understandably, the notion of a state affiliated media was never considered. Who back then would think that the press would ever align itself with would-be oppressors? It was simply inconceivable.