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Since the nation is defined by its inherent virtue rather than by its future potential, politics becomes a contemplation of good and evil rather than a discussion of actual solutions to real problems.
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Journalists are not perfect, any more than people in other vocations are not perfect, but the work of people who adhere to journalistic ethics is of a different quality than those who do not.
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To abandon facts is to abandon freedom. If nothing is true, then no one can criticize power because there is no basis on which to do so. If nothing is true, then all is spectacle; the biggest wallet pays for the most blinding lights.
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