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Are journalists civil servants?

OPINION: 'The function of an information agency is to disseminate truth - to make available fact and opinion, each carefully labeled and separated from the other.' - Warburg. With special feature audio.

Fri, 11 Mar 2016

Every time I read a piece of investigative journalism, the only questions I have are never answered: why is this story being told? How did these events come to the attention of the journalist? For some reason, this is rarely in the story.

I am, of course, referring to the mainstream media. For

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