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hot2na

(353 posts)
1. Bravo Jane Mayer
Sat Oct 5, 2019, 12:13 PM
Oct 2019

This is an important piece to understanding the propaganda machine that has taken over right wing thinking. Conspiracy theories can and will be manufactured out of whole thin air as long as mainstream publications like the New York Times pick them up. It doesn't even matter that the story conspiracy theory is debunked, once it gets printed it creates legitimacy to the conspiracy theory.

Serious Journalism publications such as the NYT and Washington Post has to be very careful in this environment. This is how Trump got elected in 2016 by smearing Hillary Clinton, and this is how Trump and his fellow propagandists (Guiliani, FOX, the entire GOP, Breitbart, etc.), are trying to do it in 2020.

Bravo Jane Mayer hot2na Oct 2019 #1
K&R... spanone Oct 2019 #2
"dupes of their own propaganda" rusty fender Oct 2019 #3
Tweet from Laurence Tribe minutes ago, recommending this article: highplainsdem Oct 2019 #4
Mercers are pure scumbags superpatriotman Oct 2019 #5
K & R bookmarked FakeNoose Oct 2019 #6
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