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Apparently the name PravdaIndiana was taken.
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What? Fox, already The official mouthpiece of the batshit crazy party isn’t biased enough for you?
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This is really depressing. “We don’t need a free press,” said the constitution-loving Republicans.
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I was going to make a pravda reference myself.
My favorite quote about FOX has always been “Communists have Pravda, Republicans have Fox”, but this just takes the cake.
Russia Today is the modern Pravda. They totally could have gone with Indiana Today.
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Too late Mr. Pence.
Journalism already died with the sounds of Chuck Todd’s French Horn.
Just sayin
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THIS JUST IN!!! a Dr Joseph Goebbels has been named Minister of the new Dept. called the Department of Propaganda… several other Red states are watching with interest…
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Why does he have to start a news service, he already has the media in his pocket!!
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Maybe “Pence’s Pravda” is still open?
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And just who exactly is paying for this ridiculous propaganda? Sounds like a way to use state resources for one party non-stop boosterism and electioneering.
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Brilliant! (and thanks for making me laugh about what is really a sad situation.)
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Why do the same Republicans bleating “Socialism” every time someone wants the state to do something useful for citizens, then turn around and come out with government expansion that looks like a fucking Authoriarian Regime?
Mike Pence for Glorious Leader in 2016!!
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“But the notion of elected officials presenting material that will inevitably have a pro-administration point of view is antithetical to the idea of an independent press.”
Yes. All that is essential to this is in the phrase State-Run News Service
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All this OK if you happen to be a republican.
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If you don’t like the news go out and make some of your own is the guiding principle here.
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TASS on the Wabash?
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Does anyone know if there’s a precedent for this in the US? Off the top of my head, I can’t think of one.
Republicans see journalism in the same boat as education: it’s a threat to the ignorance that they breed on. Everyone else sees the two as pillars of a functioning democracy.
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Xinhua on the plains.
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What the hell is wrong with these people?
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Sounds like they’re just planning on printing their own press releases. Is anyone really going to confuse that with news?
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