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To: shibumi

Actually, have you ever watched a news channel? Or read Breitbart? They report on what people, groups, and other news channels say. Most of their articles begin with “The AP reported,” or “According to the Washington Post,” etc. Here’s an example of them using an AP story and not even linking to the original source. http://www.breitbart.com/news/ohio-state-tweets-that-active-shooter-is-on-campus/ In fact, if you applied the same level of scrutiny to Breitbart, you could search Google and see that they use the exact wording and images as hundreds of other websites. Are you going to move all posts that excerpt or link to Breitbart to the “Bloggers” section? Or call them a “RE-Blogger”? Like Breitbart, a lot of our stories are the same stories run by other websites. Or else you’d have only one news website posting a story that no one else could. Then, we have other stories that are originals or are commentaries of news. Again, just like every news website out there. Search most stories on Fox, MSNBC, Breitbart, and others and you’ll find that many of their posts are stories, often the exact wording, used by all the other news websites out there.


161 posted on 11/28/2016 9:43:36 AM PST by rhett october
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To: rhett october; humblegunner
Save your breath trying to equate yourself with Breitbart.

I happen to be of the opinion that Breitbart has lost it's integrity as a news source.

When Andrew was alive he used to post here on FR. He posted self-authored threads (along with many from other sources) in full. He was engaged in real investigative journalism, as a forerunner of folks like James O'Keefe.

The website that bears his name today is a shallow, re-blogging hit farm. A real pop-up, pop-under, click bait haven. It has protected status here mostly because of its founder's legacy and the fact that it's been the most prominent source of pro-Trump news over the last year.

I am a fan of Trump. (I didn't start out that way, but he convinced me.) I'm not a big fan of the Breitbart website.

So essentially the answer to your question - "Actually, have you ever watched a news channel? Or read Breitbart? " is "No." So-called "news channels" couldn't less relevant if they tried.

Several days ago I gave you a quote for reference from FreeRepublic's owner and founder. Did you read it?

Here it is in its entirety. Read and learn padawan.

174 posted on 11/29/2016 6:17:41 AM PST by shibumi (Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
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