• Karmanopoly@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    I liked when the camera people were rushed into the proper spot and the flag was lowered so it’d be in the frame when he reappeared

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        1 month ago

        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.

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          1 month ago

          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?