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Kid Berwyn

(25,244 posts)
26. As news media don't do their job, I still post on DU.
Thu Jun 4, 2026, 01:03 PM
Thursday

And I don't post fake news. The Guardian brings up a major threat to democracy: corrupt news media.

For instance, from 2019:



Jeffrey Epstein: how US media – with one star exception – whitewashed the story

The Miami Herald exposed a vast criminal network and a government cover-up – but why the silence elsewhere?


Ed Pilkington
The Guardian, July 19, 2019

EXCERPT...

Reiter warned Brown what would happen were she to continue digging: “Somebody’s going to call your publisher and the next thing you know you are going to be assigned to the obituaries department.”

Brown did not heed his warning. She flung herself at the investigation and eventually persuaded Reiter to go on record. Her resulting, award-winning three-part series last November exposed a vast operation in which 80 potential victims were identified, some as young as 13 and 14 at the time of the alleged abuse. She persuaded eight to tell their stories.

Brown also exposed a government cover-up in which Epstein got away with an exceptionally light sentence that saw him serve only 13 months in jail. She discovered that a “non-prosecution agreement” had been negotiated secretly in 2008 by the then top federal prosecutor in Miami, Alexander Acosta, that gave Epstein and his co-conspirators immunity from federal prosecution.

In 2017, Acosta was appointed by Donald Trump as labor secretary, a post that ironically is responsible for combating sex trafficking.

CONTINUES...

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jul/13/jeffrey-epstein-alex-acosta-miami-herald-media

DU 2019 OP: https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212367573



We likely wouldn’t know squat about Epstein & Associates without the Miami Herald and now, it seems, DU and an increasing number of "citizen-journalists."


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so it is his mommy. nt orleans Thursday #40
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Maye Musk, the Elon of Mars and Child, plus one more. Kid Berwyn Yesterday #74
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