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Journalists who make mistakes get sued for libel; historians who make mistakes get to publish a revised edition.

— Bill Moyers

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Reagan's story of freedom superficially alludes to the Founding Fathers, but its substance comes from the Gilded Age, devised by apologists for the robber barons.

A free press is one where it's okay to state the conclusion you're led to by the evidence.

Ed Murrow told his generation of journalists bias is okay as long as you don't try to hide it. So here, one more time, is mine: plutocracy and democracy don't mix.

"News is what people want to keep hidden and everything else is publicity."

Like those populists of that earlier era, millions of Americans have awakened to a sobering reality: they live in a plutocracy, where they are disposable.

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