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This is How The #BrokenTimes Covers the Fascist Oligarchy

Medium · Jeff Jarvis · last updated
Whither news? Two days to go until the fascist oligarchy comes to power in the United States and this is how our once-greatest newspaper, The New York Times, is covering what could end in the fall of American democracy.

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