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onpatrol98

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7. ...using the word "journalist" loosely?

Reply to ProSense (Reply #4)

Mon May 20, 2013, 12:42 PM

May 2013

...using the word "journalist" loosely?

Well, there's a lot of truth with that statement.

But, I think of this as more of a case of --- fight it when it affects the people you don't like, so that they won't dream of trying it with the people you do like.

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