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Originally posted by rogue06 View PostWhen all you do is cry wolf...
It seems the MSM, rather than do an honest introspection like they pretended to be serious about doing, would rather just blame anybody or anything. They just can't stand the fact that millions of people no longer trust them to be honest and unbiased.The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.
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I have finished the project for which I started this thread; that is, a presentation of the multi-decade history of the defamation of Jeff Sessions by Democrats every time he has been nominated for a federal appointment.
Having completed that project, I now turn to what most readers of this thread seem to have focused on: that is, the term "fake news" in the title the OP.
The following is from an Analysis/Opinion piece by Kelly Riddle in the Thursday November 24 edition of The Washington Times.
What worries me the most about fake news isn’t that it’s fake, it’s that it’s being used by the left to try to silence opposing views.
Take for example a story reported by the Los Angeles Times that included a professor who put together a Google document of “false, misleading, clickbait-y and satirical ‘news sources’” to help people “cleanse their newsfeeds of misinformation.”
The only problem with the list was it included real news sites with which the professor simply didn’t agree. Conservative blogs, including Red State and The Blaze, were on the list, as was more centrist, but GOP-leaning, Independent Journal Review (IJR).
None of those sites are fake — they often just peddle in the real news purposely not covered by the mainstream media. ...Last edited by John Reece; 11-25-2016, 09:02 PM.
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Originally posted by KingsGambit View PostBen Shapiro made a good point about that. He pointed out that so many liberals accused people like Mitt Romney of racism (which any reasonable person can tell is nonsense), so people aren't interested in listening to them when actual racists have come out of the woodwork (or the dark corners of the Internet) in the last election.
But you should be expert on this, eh, Mr 'Trump committed treason', 'Bannon made deal with devil'?Last edited by demi-conservative; 11-26-2016, 12:03 AM.Remember that you are dust and to dust you shall return.
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Originally posted by Leonhard View PostI'm considering making a post about what the term 'fake news' originally meant, before it became a slur to throw at partisan papers of various qualities. Its one of those terms that meant something, had a point, but now is merely used as a shorthand for the news sources they don't trust.
After Trump won some libs started using 'fake news' to smear Breitbart, Drudge, Zerohedge, other sites that they think helped Trump win.
Then non-libs start pointing out that Reuters, NYT, CNN, other mainstream media actually spread fake news. Only then now we have libs like Leonhard trying to downplay this, saying 'fake news' "is merely used as a shorthand for the news sources they don't trust", trying to distract from massive duplicity of mainstream media that people a) actually notice, b) are not happy with, c) unsubscribing from.Last edited by demi-conservative; 11-26-2016, 12:08 AM.Remember that you are dust and to dust you shall return.
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Originally posted by John Reece View PostI have finished the project for which I started this thread; that is, a presentation of the multi-decade history of the defamation of Jeff Sessions by Democrats every time he has been nominated for a federal appointment.
And we are supposed to believe this because the propaganda sources you have linked to, such as Breitbart (which is primarily paid for by Robert Mercer who also just happens to be the primary funder of the Trump campaign and of the Republican party, and which Steve Bannon was CEO of before he took a leadership position in the Trump campaign), happens to say so? The people behind Trump are telling us that the people the Trump team is appointing are great people, and totally not the complete scumbags that everyone has been saying they are for decades... and we are supposed to believe them?
Seriously dude, how gullible / stupid / idiotic do you think all of us are? I have pity for how much you've been indoctrinated and deluded by their propaganda. But perhaps you can stop spreading that manure around here?
I think it's completely legitimate to be skeptical of corporate media, because the people that are paying them are pushing a certain pro-corporate pro-rich narrative, but then it's foolish to believe you're escaping that by turning to "alternative" media sources like Breitbart, Limbaugh or Beck that are themselves primarily funded by rich people who are pushing the exact same types of narrative for the exact same types of reasons. Considering yourself 'smart' for having escaped the trap of the mainstream media's propaganda only makes you look all the more silly when you fall for an even more extreme version of the same propaganda funded by the same type of people but coming from a different source. For all their faults, and they are many, the corporate media actually generally puts effort into fact-checking stories, and relatively rarely carries any story that is false, whereas the kinds of sources you seem to have been relying on carry stories that are partially or completely factually false on a daily basis, quite aside from whatever silly spin they give in their opinion section."I hate him passionately", he's "a demonic force" - Tucker Carlson, in private, on Donald Trump
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Originally posted by rogue06 View PostThis whole fake news stuff looks like another attempt to censor news story that liberals don't like. Recently while discussing this on some talking head show[1] a couple days back one pundit listed a couple "fake news" stories promoted by the MSM[2] that were still being bandied about by them even after they were exposed as being hoaxes. So will MSM sources face the same scrutiny?
1. programs with panels discussing the news
2. Main Stream Media
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"You're by far the worst poster on TWeb" and "TWeb's biggest liar" --starlight (the guy who says Stalin was a right-winger)
"Overall I would rate the withdrawal from Afghanistan as by far the best thing Biden's done" --Starlight
"Of course, human life begins at fertilization that’s not the argument." --Tassman
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Originally posted by rogue06 View PostFood for thought:
It is better that a TWeb Department Head do so than that I do so, after having been rebuked by the brilliant Starlight for allegedly violating TWeb rules by presenting copied and pasted posts in this thread.
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