if your answer isn’t an unequivocal “yes” then you’re a shit journalist
journalists are being threatened and jailed. media outlets are paying settlements to THE PRESIDENT. but gosh golly gee, is democracy under threat? who can really say!
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It's those institutions, Marisa. Will they make it?
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Not Ben Smith.
He is a bitch.
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Journalists, just as with artists right now, must use any opportunity to say what is clearly happening and warn against it WHILE YOU STILL CAN.
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If democracy is the idea that each person gets an equal say in guiding the path of the society, we're well past "Under threat."
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We're ALL threatened with jail just for speaking out. Racially, through disabilities, through our own political and religious dogma. This is a purge.
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When you're as privileged as he is, it's so hard to call it out
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When are more journalists going to admit publicly that democracy under multiple threats from the Trump administration before doing their both sides of the issue spiel?
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How can you even ask that question at this point? Maybe in 2016, but damn that ship is well out of port by now.
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Threatened, jailed, bloodied, & shot with "non-lethals" while all eyes watch.
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"Under threat? Thats far too abstract an idea. I think of this in terms of building up or destroying institutions, which is clearly less abstract."
Fart noises
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the greatest mystery of our time
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Maybe Democracy, like Ronan Farrow’s journalism career, was too good to be true for Ben
