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Confused Brits Cause Severe Damage At The Donald Trump Propaganda Factory | Defector
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Confused Brits Cause Severe Damage At The Donald Trump Propaganda Factory | Defector

There are reasons to envy people who work in conservative media and reasons to pity them, but there’s an element of abstraction to that ecosystem and its native bog critters that makes either response seem insufficient. For those stuck working at outlets supported by subscribers or advertisements, and not by the rounding-error subsidies of half-literate…