President Donald Trump on February 21 fired the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and dismissed five other admirals and generals in an major shake-up of the top leadership of the U.S. military.

  • Drusas
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    452 months ago

    Why is the media not blaring the alarms?!

    I mean, I know the answer–they’re owned by complicit parties.

    But still… They have to see what’s happening. Being fired for speaking freely is not the worst thing in the world.

        • @throwback3090@lemmy.nz
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          2 months ago

          That speaks to the historical purpose of journalism in the United States more than malice. When journalism doesn’t do that you get fox. Or the entire uk press.

          • @Zaktor@sopuli.xyz
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            12 months ago

            Historically newspapers were not stolid registers of factual happenings. That’s a modern invention. The press was an essential venue for advocacy in the American Revolution and papers were where political viewpoints were expressed.

            If you report a scandal as just facts because of some imagined role of journalists as simple archivists of events, the general public is unlikely to recognize it as a scandal.