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    Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 30 Apr 2018

    Jeet Heer Retweeted Natasha Bertrand

    It's not surprising that authoritarians think this. What's depressing is that not a few journalists agree.https://twitter.com/NatashaBertrand/status/990915294305640448 …

    Jeet Heer added,

    Natasha BertrandVerified account @NatashaBertrand
    .@mschlapp on @CNN: “Journalists should not be the ones to say that the president or his spokesperson is lying.”
    9:59 AM - 30 Apr 2018
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      1. Jesse Hlava‏ @jessehlava 30 Apr 2018
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        Then they are not journalists and should stop pretending to be. Want to be a stenographer? Then be a stenographer. But you can't do that and call yourself a journalist.

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      1. Blair Parker  🛶 🏍️ 🇨🇦‏ @blair_parker 30 Apr 2018
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        I think you may have accidentally misspelled 'stenographers'... it looked like 'journalists' in my twitter feed. ;)

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      1. Amanda in the pan‏ @fantabulizer 30 Apr 2018
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        If journalists shouldn't be the ones to call a lie a lie, what is their purpose then? What is journalism if not documenting the truth? And the truth is that our leaders are lying to us.

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      1. Laurie 🙏 🌻 🦚 🌲 🕊 💙‏ @laurie_listens 30 Apr 2018
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        If a journalist hears a lie spoken or sees it written, it is that journalist's duty to call out the lie and to support the calling out with facts. In fact, that's a duty we all must take on!!

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      1. Defund cops, Free Palestine, Crush fascists‏ @EganYune 30 Apr 2018
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        it is the same excuse given 15 years ago with Bush-Chaney and the Iraq causus belli lies, they looked the other way on war crimes, then they enabled the astroturffed Tea Party and kept the Birther nonesense alive and now write sympathy pieces for Nazis sad in Middle America.

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      1. linda fletcher‏ @liesurelee 30 Apr 2018
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        maybe journalists should strive to be good journalists rather than celebrities. Many seem to have the two roles/jobs mixed up (saying that is giving them the benefit of the doubt)

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      2. Jeff Kemp‏ @jkempcpa 30 Apr 2018
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        I think it's important to differentiate between calling out something that is factually inaccurate and calling out something as a "lie". There is a difference.

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      3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 30 Apr 2018
        Replying to @jkempcpa

        If someone keeps making a factually inaccurate statement after being corrected, it's a lie.

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      1. PFL 🐆‏ @frankieindc 30 Apr 2018
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        PFL 🐆 Retweeted Zbigniew Brzezinski

        @morningmika disappoints me the most here, and using her own "wife and mother" trope, she is the daughter of a man who understood the subtle viciousness of censorship in Eastern Europe and worked to undermine it. A scholar and a statesman.https://twitter.com/zbig/status/860177803194630144?s=19 …

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        Zbigniew Brzezinski @zbig
        Sophisticated US leadership is the sine qua non of a stable world order. However, we lack the former while the latter is getting worse.
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      1. Roslyn Reid  😷‏ @the_moonshadow 30 Apr 2018
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        journalists s/b glad they CAN do that - w/o anybody murdering em. #Putin

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