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On Monday, Goucher College journalism professor and longtime Baltimore Sun media critic David Zurawik accused President Donald Trump of using a dictator tactic — telling so many lies as to exhaust the free press into silence. "He says something that’s really offensive about immigrants, and then Tucker Carlson says immigration makes us a dirtier country," Zurawik said. "That is really destructive to American life." He urged journalists to fight back. "We have to denounce it, but every time we do that, every time we chase that down, he is setting the agenda for what we cover, and none of us,...

Videographer and blogger Josh Wolf was released from prison today around 2:30 p.m. Outside jail this afternoon, Wolf said he was looking forward to eating pizza and drinking beer, as well as shaving his beard and changing his clothes. He said it was easy to lose track of the time in prison -- though he did count. (It was 224 or 225 days in all.) Speaking to reporters (including Jim Herron Zamora from the Chronicle), Wolf said he had read 50 books while in custody and wants to set up program so inmates can blog by sending letters to friends...