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Let it be remembered that the atrocities of the Iraq War and post 9/11 America can be tied DIRECTLY to the de-evolution of the free press as is best typified by the gut-wrenchingly sickening practice of "embeds" or "embedded reporters".
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Bonobo
Feb 2013
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Arctic Dave
(13,812 posts)1. They weren't reporters, they were fallaciators.
Fuck all the "embeds".
Bonobo
(29,257 posts)2. Is that somewhere between facilitators and felaciators with "fallacious" on top?
Sounds about right.
Arctic Dave
(13,812 posts)3. All of the above.
Fallacy, fellatio and fucking dirtbags all tooled into one.
madfloridian
(88,117 posts)4. Very true.
We used to talk at DU about that practice of embedding as the war begun. They told us what they were supposed to tell us.
Bonobo
(29,257 posts)5. Propagandakompanie