President Donald Trump on February 21 fired the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and dismissed five other admirals and generals in an major shake-up of the top leadership of the U.S. military.

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    6 hours ago

    Historically newspapers were not stolid registers of factual happenings. That’s a modern invention. The press was an essential venue for advocacy in the American Revolution and papers were where political viewpoints were expressed.

    If you report a scandal as just facts because of some imagined role of journalists as simple archivists of events, the general public is unlikely to recognize it as a scandal.