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A free press?

Michelle Dorrell from UK Labour Voices says in a video 'The truth is a "free press"owned my the mega-rich isn't a free press, it's a propaganda tool used with one purpose in mind, to keep the status quo' In a nutshell. They piss on us and tell us it's raining. pic.twitter.com/pvPujCcjdl

The words of QED

The words of QED is my second attempt at blogging. I might revive the old blog but for now you are just going to have accept my word for it. It was there, I put a lot of time into it but ultimately I lost motivation to keep writing. Is blogging the poor cousin to journalism? In a literal sense, journalism comes from the idea of writing a journal, ie the act of writing a journal, and according to Wikipedia "a journal , from the Old French "journal" (meaning "daily"), can refer to several things.. in its original meaning, it refers to a daily record of activities" So if one writes daily does that constitute journalism? Perhaps but obviously so-called journalism entails more that the act of committing a few words daily to print. A key component is obviously the "record of activities" and what that entails. Hence the so-called "beats" of certain journalists, politics, economics, crime, social and so on. This isn't a how to on jo