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Yes. My preface to the book is about exactly just this. My big message with writing this book is that journalists HAVE to go back to relying on tangible evidence that they can print and show readers (Journalism with Proof in the book). Be more transparent. I understand the need for anonymous sources but where is the true investigative journalism? It's scant.

This is a DAMN GOOD question. I actually sat here for a couple minutes thinking. It would be Joel Zamel of Psy Group and I would ask him if he or any of his companies did any work to support the Trump campaign in 2016.

God I wish. Important content should never ever ever be behind a hard paywall. I think the future is independent journalism with verification and contributions from everyday people who find the work interesting. That's essentially what Logos is doing. https://logosnews.tech/

The presence of financial crime EVERYTWHERE. Russia, Cyprus, US, UK, Ireland, Belize, Seychelles. Anywhere in the world.

From my book:

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I like to think of the normal blue-collar American worker who

comes home from a hard day at work and turns on the news to see

what has gone on in the world. What he or she finds on TV, however,

is anything but the news. It’s likely some Democrat yelling at a group

of Republicans or vice-versa, with personal insults flying and a painful

dearth of truth.

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This attitude can also be widely found on social media, which has

increasingly become infected with purposeful disinformation by foreign

countries, bots, and trolls. These actors have no interest in sharing

fact-based reporting, but rather feed off of the chaos and discord

that comes from a hyperpartisan American population.

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There is certainly a place for partisanship in the United States,

though not in the world of investigative journalism. Disagreeing over

politics and even slinging some mud is as American as apple pie. When

there is no separation between these debates and fact-finding investigations,

however, is when we as a population suffer the consequences.