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Augiedog

(2,542 posts)
Fri Jul 20, 2018, 02:12 PM Jul 2018

This is a thank you to reporters who are in the breach and standing for the truth and the American

people.

The trolling, flaming and outright threatening that the main stream media and it’s ancillary counterparts on the interwebs contend with is startling and disturbing. Nonetheless they stand in and despite it all do their job.

The courage it takes to daily withstand the, false and baseless, allegations of being fake, an enemy of the people and an enemy of the state by the president is remarkable. Reporters are killed every year doing the often times thankless job of reporting the facts.

The presidents remarks in this regard are at least inflammatory and at their worst life threatening. Marginalized and fringe elements in our society will see the presidents comments as a license, if not an order, to attack media people or institutions.

It takes real courage and dedication to something greater than yourself to walk into the face of this contemporary storm. So, thank you, to those who are in that breach doing for us what we are not prepared to do ourselves.

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This is a thank you to reporters who are in the breach and standing for the truth and the American (Original Post) Augiedog Jul 2018 OP
+ + Thank you for posting!! Laf.La.Dem. Jul 2018 #1
Right fkn on, Augiedog - in particular, my intrepid citizen sleuth intel twitter researchers keep Leghorn21 Jul 2018 #2
Thank YOu for posting this. So often the reporters get no credit. Thanks again..nt Stuart G Jul 2018 #3
Especially since they compete with social media "news". Dave Starsky Jul 2018 #4

Leghorn21

(13,522 posts)
2. Right fkn on, Augiedog - in particular, my intrepid citizen sleuth intel twitter researchers keep
Fri Jul 20, 2018, 02:20 PM
Jul 2018

me going when I can barely hold my head up from yet another day of this nightmare onslaught -

And yes, RESPECT to all those others in the trenches fighting a war I cannot, ABSOLUTELY



Great post, dog, many thanks-

Dave Starsky

(5,914 posts)
4. Especially since they compete with social media "news".
Fri Jul 20, 2018, 02:54 PM
Jul 2018

Which is always "late breaking" and is absolutely dominated by Russian trolls and bots.

Mark Twain said that a lie makes it halfway around the world before the truth even gets its boots on.

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