nPosted on June 7, 2020
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nThey’re the ones dedicated to getting the story, investigating claims, publishing the truth. They’re the ones that citizens living in a democracy count on to stay informed so that they can make good decisions at the ballot box:
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Journalists!
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nBy definition, a journalist is someone who writes for a newspaper or magazine or news website.
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nOf course, this definition doesn’t guarantee any of that important stuff in the first paragraph: investigative, dedicated, truthful.
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nTurns out, lots of “journalists” write drivel or propaganda and pretend that it’s factual reporting.
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nOn this date in 1810, the newly founded Gazeta de Buenos Ayres became available to the public – the first newspaper created in Argentina after that Spanish colony’s May Revolution. To commemorate this newspaper, June 7 is Journalist Day. Of course Argentinians are celebrating the best of journalists – the writers who dig out and print the truth!
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| Mariano Moreno was one of the founders and editors of the Gazeta de Buenos-Ayres. |
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nAlso on this date:
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nSette Giugno in Malta
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nAnniversary of the end of a Manitoba voyage
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nArtist Paul Gauguin’s birthday
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nBoone Day
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nPoet Gwendolyn Brooks’s birthday
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nBirthday of men’s fashion icon Beau Brummell
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nAnniversary of Norway’s king escaping Nazis AND of Norway’s king returning after Nazis were defeated!
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Birthday of explorer and Arctic-peoples expert Knud Rasmussen
Birthday of explorer and Arctic-peoples expert Knud Rasmussenn
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nPeru’s Flag Day
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