Plagiarizing Independent Journalists Is Part of Mainstream Media’s Business
arisa Kabas is an independent journalist who has been one of the essential reporters of the Trump 2.0 era on her website The Handbasket. Just a week into Trump’s term, Kabas was the first to report on a memo from the Office of Management and Budget titled “Temporary Pause of Agency Grant, Loan, and Other Financial Assistance Programs,” which was a preview of the destruction we have seen take place across the government in the months since. In April she reported on a State Department cable detailing how the US “relocate[d]” an Iraqi refugee to Rwanda under a chilling new agreement between the Trump administration and the Rwandan government, but if you only read CBS or the New York Times, you’d only just now be hearing about this report without ever reading Kabas’ name.
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