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Like the commenter above indicated, it does not work that way.

'The Press' is already a structure of independence and decentralization.

Without integrity in those systems, someone will come along and dictate the Truth.

15% QAnon, 35% Trump (those willing to go along even if they don't fully agree), and then the rest are compelled when the President orders the press to communicate his words, verbatim, without criticism etc..

Twitter does not actually give power to the people, or the Truth - it concentrates power in the hands of those who have the most popular Truth.

But yes, the press needs to be less biased, but that's also partly our fault.

We don't read the less biased news, unfortunately, we like tabloids and click bait.



the press is both an idea and an institution, today it is not unreasonable to say that the institution is both showing signs of diverging from the idea of free press and is showing problematic signs of corruption.

this is not a debate of press vs no press, but one of good press vs bad press




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