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Originally Posted by PeteMoss
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Her name is Marina Ovsyannikova, an editor and producer with the broadcaster... It's an incredibly brave act - Channel One is the biggest network in Russia and typically the viewership for the primetime news would undoubtedly be in the 10s of millions
I've thought often of Orwell since the election of Trump and what's happening in Russia is what an unchecked Fox News and GOP will be in 10-20 years.
I've been thinking about that quote that the Chernobyl miniseries opened with...
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"What is the cost of lies? It's not that we'll mistake them for the truth. The real danger is that if we hear enough lies, then we no longer recognize the truth at all. What can we do then? What else is left but to abandon even the hope of truth and content ourselves instead with stories?"
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