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0 pointsUhhrrr7y ago0 comments

> I remember when you had to really pay attention to catch bias in the news.

I wonder about this. Part of the reason you had to pay attention was that there were far fewer information sources to check against. No one was reporting on Martin Luther King's affairs, and no one was reporting on the FBI's attempts to get MLK to commit suicide over them either.

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s_m_t7y ago

That strikes me as some sort of backwards reasoning, people had to literally break into FBI offices and steal documents so that those things would come to be known. You can't really fault the news for not reporting on something they had, unless I'm mistaken, absolutely no way of knowing unless they were to, y'know, infiltrate the FBI.

UhhrrrOP7y ago

The burglary was in 1971, and the MLK letter didn't get published until much later. These days the documents would get uploaded to Mega or sent to Wikileaks, and dozens of people would pore over them.

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0 pointsUhhrrr7y ago0 comments

> I remember when you had to really pay attention to catch bias in the news.

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