• @[email protected]
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    a fireable offense for a member of the press

    VOA journalists are anything but. They are not free press.

    • gon [he]
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      322 days ago

      I’m not sure what you mean by this. They’re state-sponsored, but they are at least supposed to be free, on account of the firewall and the VOA charter.

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        No no no - only paywalled, ad-supported, doomsday prep and gold bullion-slinging, enshittified news outlets are “free press”. Honestly, if you’re not creating value for shareholders, can you even consider yourself a journalist?

        • gon [he]
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          21 day ago

          Honestly, if you’re not creating value for shareholders, can you even consider yourself a journalist?

          Surely not!

    • The Quuuuuill
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      Sooo… Fucking piece it together dude. It’s to the point where VOA is not belligerently pro-America enough for Donnie Dickhead. Our freedom of press is deteriorated to the point that no journalist, no matter how pro-jingoist their legacy, is safe from reprisal. No one running a media network within our borders is capable of presenting truth. That’s a thing of the past.