The urgent reports echoed throughout the West Grand Duchy and the capital of the Ansu Duchy.
Olesian newspapers were advanced capitalist ventures. To make money, they loved reporting all kinds of explosive breaking news.
How did they get it?
People would do anything for money.
Every newspaper could be sold for a profit!
As a result, Olesian news could be more formidable than the intelligence networks of some countries.
They knew things immediately that others had no idea about.
Olesia had dedicated reviewers for this intelligence. As long as they confirmed something wasn't a rumor, they could generally report it.
With Lynn personally upholding limited freedom of speech, it was about as free as things got in this era.
You could even see Lynn trading insults with the Pope in one news story, followed by another reporting that the Church and Olesia were working together to control a plague.
It was that absurd: the leaders of both sides were hurling insults at each other, while their organizations joined forces to combat a plague.
As ridiculous as it was, their public spats actually earned them the trust of most people.
It showed they were open and aboveboard.
They were much better than certain people who tried to silence everyone.
At the same time, the Church and Olesia's Aningsbe Party had, through a tacit understanding, managed to boost each other's reputations.
Look, their leaders didn't get along, but they still worked together to fight the plague.
Their factions' platforms were at odds, too.
In a way, they were helping each other succeed.
As for complete freedom of speech?
That didn't exist.
After all, language was an art. What people called freedom of speech was really just everyone speaking from their own perspective.
Without fairness, freedom of speech meant rumors everywhere.
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