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Free Press Must be Responsible

Sun., Aug. 26, 2018

Your editorial about why a free press matters missed the mark by one word. A responsible free press matters. The majority of the press today has taken it upon themselves to remove a constitutionally elected President. I have never seen more fake news (with a few retractions days later), slanted news, or no news when the story would make the president look good. The mainstream media has become an arm of the Democrat Party and that is no longer a free press.

Bob Loweree

Greenacres

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