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Thom's Blog Is On the Move
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Hello All
Thom's blog in this space and moving to a new home.
Please follow us across to hartmannreport.com - this will be the only place going forward to read Thom's blog posts and articles.
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Propaganda is propaganda whether it is "fake news'"" or factual news misrepresented to manipulate; it is the deliberate manipulation of the recipient that matters.
There were far too few choices as ususal. My wife gets her news from sources like Good Morning America. This is a sore issue between us. I get my news from people I trust like Thom Hartman, Amy and Juan at Democracy, now and a critical revirw of mainstream print and media broadcasts.
The MSM didn't fake news, it didn't report anything that would upset their ongoing manufacturing of the status quo. In the 50's I watched an AP wire continuously crank out news, about every half hour, it would print out a synopsis for the talking head to read. I asked if anyone ever read the stuff in between synopsis, nah. The internet is the end of managed news. The internet news sources will now have to include all of the news in between.
Why the fuss all of a sudden about fake news? FOX News has been spreading nothing but fake news for eons. Remember O'Reilly and "Tiller the Baby Killer?"
Fake news, Manual? Let's review:
ABC News fake story about Food Lion selling out of date meat.
CBS News fake story on GW Bush being AWOL using fake documents.
NBC News fake story on gas tank explosions of GM vehicles.
Do I even need to mention Brian Williams?
Rolling Stone Mag fake story about rape on campus.
NYT numerous fake news stories. Jayson Blair anyone?
I could go on but you get the message.
Why do you only focus on Fox News and not the other MSM? Ah, you obviously have a grudge against Fox News.
While some news may actually be made up stories it is not the primary isue of "fake news". The real isue is almost every news reporter or news comentator choosing what to report, or what not to report. By repoprting what fits and skiping what doesn't an overall imag is created of a reality that is one sided.