I've worked in mainstream media for a decade. I used to see NYT/WaPo/network stories and generally assume they were basically true, even if the outlets made mistakes from time to time (we're all human).
Now I think, "What kind of bullshit are these ideologues pulling on me now?"
The old establishment regime was thoroughly liberal, to be clear. It was the air they breathed.
But you couldn't imagine the old regime straight-up fabricating shit or claiming, as CNN did in a recent news story, that there is no scientific consensus for determining a baby's sex
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