Todd Smekens
1 min readNov 13, 2016

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Sorry Asha, but there is no local quality journalism. Americans haven’t experienced “journalism”, as defined by our Constitution, for generations.

What we have is corporate owned yellow journalism — clickbait. It’s more like media gossip entertainment rapped up in local, state and national packages. Albert Einstein said it didn’t exist in the 1940’s. I believe him.

Don’t feel bad — we also don’t have a government serving the people. It serves moneyed interests, too.

All this means is we don’t have a democracy. We have a corporate owned fascist police state which should get real ugly over the next few years.

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Todd Smekens

Journalist focusing on geopolitical, economy and political strategy. Consultant w/masters in organization leadership. Cycling the Midwest and Heartland.