It might seem like a small matter, just a disagreement over whether a body of water should be called one name or another.
But it’s really about much bigger things: Trump-style intimidation, a clear violation of the first amendment – and the extent to which news organizations will stick together in each other’s defense, or will comply with the powerful for the sake of their own access.
Even more broadly, it is about Donald Trump’s wide-ranging effort to control the media and be able to spread propaganda and interfere with the flow of accurate information.
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No Marge, it’s deeper than that. This is him controlling the media. While the pearl clutching shit libs cry foul and the MAGAts writhe with glee at their pain, the cameras are turned on their slap fight and therefore devote less airtime to the actual dismantling this undercover foreign asset is doing.