Americans believe their country is different from the oppressive nations famous for jailing their political dissidents, like Russia and its treatment of Alexei Navalny. Staying in this dreamworld is becoming increasingly more difficult because of the extraordinary way the Biden Administration, including its spy agencies, is targeting conservative journalists.
If you’ve ever watched a press briefing and felt like everyone was asking the same questions, it’s because the corporate media drones are usually the only ones getting any.
Gigi Sohn withdraws, but Chair Jessica Rosenworcel tries to kill a merger on her own. Ms. Sohn’s defeat is good news for freedom of the airwaves, but Ms. Rosenworcel seems happy to do plenty of damage on her own.
The defenses now filling the media evade every important question. Only one intellectually honest statement has been heard anywhere and that was offered months ago by liberal philosopher and podcaster Sam Harris: Yes, the laptop story was true and newsworthy. Yes, intelligence veterans and the press lied in suppressing it to help Joe Biden. And he supports their doing so.
The former CEO stated that the “biggest mistake” he made while at the company was to invest in building tools that allowed Twitter to manage the public conversation, as opposed to tools that allowed the people using Twitter to manage it themselves.
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