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.

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