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Pravda rides again

The press is becoming unfree

19 June 2021

9:00 AM

19 June 2021

9:00 AM

In the West today we can see that a once free press is voluntarily becoming unfree. Or such is the sentiment of the incredibly courageous and admirable Ayaan Hirsi Ali. But there’s a lot to what she’s claiming, isn’t there? A free press should be programmed to seek out the truth, to take nothing on the assurance of the great and the good, to treat like alike, and to follow the facts wherever they lead.

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