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rainy

(6,092 posts)
Tue Dec 27, 2016, 04:42 PM Dec 2016

America is Awash in Fake News

http://www.alternet.org/media/america-awash-fake-news

The media landscape in America is dominated by “fake news.” It has been for decades. This fake news does not emanate from the Kremlin. It is a multibillion-dollar-a-year industry that is skillfully designed and managed by public relations agencies, publicists and communications departments on behalf of individuals, government and corporations to manipulate public opinion.
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America is Awash in Fake News (Original Post) rainy Dec 2016 OP
Recommended. H2O Man Dec 2016 #1
can we just call it bdamomma Dec 2016 #2
More descriptive and accurate, yes. InAbLuEsTaTe Dec 2016 #4
If the news headline read, "PEOTUS Clinton" day after day, ffr Dec 2016 #3

ffr

(22,671 posts)
3. If the news headline read, "PEOTUS Clinton" day after day,
Tue Dec 27, 2016, 04:59 PM
Dec 2016

I think we could fool 63M Americans and HRC would be president.

They'd just accept it as truth. Now to get Fox Noise to perpetrate it.

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