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Apr 6Liked by Brian Wilson

How can you have a free press if there are gatekeepers to "journalism?" Ben Franklin apprenticed in a printer's office and published a newspaper, yet he hired all types of reporters without any credentials other than they were honest and could read and write. The reason most people distrust the mainstream press now is because of the gatekeeping that does happen. The college journalism and ethics classes seem to teach "journalists" that officially sanctioned dishonesty is more ethical than honesty that goes against official narrative.

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"The news gets out but no one is embarrassed."

Yeah, that's Healdsburg and the "Healdsburg Spittoon" newspaper to a "T".

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Libertarians like myself don't believe in licenses, permits, or degrees. The free market will take care of the poseurs. The quack doctors, shitty mechanics, and sloppy journalists will not survive in a free market.

Look at MSM. What are their ratings?

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David Muir has a journalism degree? Did he sleep with the teachers?

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Is Rona McDaniels a Negro? There was a time when an institution's response to a Negro coming on the team meant that everyone was now tainted. So are Republican conservatives now the New Negroes of society?

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