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No honest journalist should be willing to describe himself or herseif as 'embedded.' To say, 'I'm an embedded journalist' is to say, 'I'm a government Propagandist.

Noam Chomsky

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Noam Chomsky
Age: 96
Born: 1928
Born: December 7
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