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Who Let Me Do This? (Happy Birthday, The Present Age)

The press keeps getting bought. This is the case for a newsletter that can’t be

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Parker Molloy
Jun 11, 2026
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Five years ago, I quit a steady paycheck at Media Matters to start emailing strangers about why some CNN headline made me want to throw my laptop into Lake Michigan.

I’m still doing it.

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