• Karmanopoly@lemmy.world
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      7 days ago

      Maybe during a shooting you should run for cover and maybe not towards the general area of the target

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        Journalists embed themselves in military units all the time. There’s a big incentive to take personal risk to get footage of major events.

        Are we really pretending that the Trump administration had such a close relationship with certain media outlets that he convinced them to go along with this outlandish conspiracy and not a word of that has ever emerged?

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          7 days ago

          Are we pretending the white house photographer caught a blurred picture of the actual bullet as it whizzed by his head?

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      I mean, I get this isn’t a popular opinion in this thread, but I can see an aid realizing, “holy shit, this is the political opportunity of a lifetime” and ushering in the photographers to take shots.