Devolution Power Hour Ep. 499: Fake Wars, Franklin’s Printers & the Philly Shell
Jon Herold and Burning Bright open Devolution Power Hour by living in the word "fake." Jon walks through how often Trump calls elections and other stories fake, and why critics who treat that word as dangerous put themselves in a pickle: either Trump is telling the truth, or they have to say he is lying when he speaks. From there they sit with Benjamin Franklin on printers: if nothing that might offend could be published, almost nothing would be printed. The hosts tie that to independent media under fire, and to knowing when not to print something that would do real injury. The middle of the…
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