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Obama decries 'wild west' media landscape
Yahoo News (via Drudge) ^ | October 13, 2016 | AFP

Posted on 10/14/2016 3:18:08 AM PDT by PapaBear3625

Pittsburgh (AFP) - President Barack Obama on Thursday decried America's "wild, wild west" media environment for allowing conspiracy theorists a broad platform and destroying a common basis for debate.

Recalling past days when three television channels delivered fact-based news that most people trusted, Obama said democracy require citizens to be able to sift through lies and distortions.

"We are going to have to rebuild within this wild-wild-west-of-information flow some sort of curating function that people agree to," Obama said at an innovation conference in Pittsburgh.

"There has to be, I think, some sort of way in which we can sort through information that passes some basic truthiness tests and those that we have to discard, because they just don't have any basis in anything that's actually happening in the world," Obama added.

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Bam-bam is unhappy that the Left no longer controls the information flow, and wants to be able to make "non-news" whatever they disagree with.

Since more and more people get their info via Facebook, Youtube, and other Internet media, the ability to censor dissenting viewpoints in these media outlets will be increasingly important to the Left.

1 posted on 10/14/2016 3:18:08 AM PDT by PapaBear3625
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To: PapaBear3625

Bam is lying again, but that’s what Islam proscribes.


2 posted on 10/14/2016 3:21:09 AM PDT by Paladin2 (auto spelchk? BWAhaha2haaa.....I aint't likely fixin' nuttin'. Blame it on the Bossa Nova...)
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He would have the same people who have been telling us for eight years the economy is wonderful decide what “Truth” we can hear. I don’t think so.


3 posted on 10/14/2016 3:25:49 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: PapaBear3625

Here comes more censorship.


4 posted on 10/14/2016 3:32:53 AM PDT by CASchack
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To: PapaBear3625

“TRUTHINESS” tests?!!!! Bammy has started making up words
now!! He needs to just stick to accusing us “folks” of
having “notions” about stuff whenever he wants to accuse
US of LYING!!!

IS BAMMY BELOW 100 DAYS YET, LAZ?


5 posted on 10/14/2016 3:36:12 AM PDT by Twinkie (John 3:16)
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To: PapaBear3625

Coming soon: PRAVDA!

Sooooo..... we let a select few decide what is truth and news.

Obama is dangerous. Clinton is even worse.


6 posted on 10/14/2016 3:37:12 AM PDT by LeonardFMason (LanceyHoward would AGREE)
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To: PapaBear3625

“Obama said democracy require citizens to be able to sift through lies and distortions.’

For Obama, that means leave it all to the MSM. They are objective, know more, are brilliant, are completely honest and dependable, and anything else should be outlawed. No truth exists except when it has been blessed by the MSM.


7 posted on 10/14/2016 3:44:58 AM PDT by odawg
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Look how evil they are. Censorship is what they want and they are not getting people to comply. George III wasn’t this bad. This is happening in the United States of America. The time has come the founders warned about.


8 posted on 10/14/2016 3:48:22 AM PDT by VermithraxPejorative
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To: PapaBear3625

Code talk for shutting down conservative speech on the internet. They are most of the way there with the ICANN giveaway and Facebook and Twitter censoring conservatives, now on to shutting down the forums and blogs.


9 posted on 10/14/2016 3:49:32 AM PDT by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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To: LeonardFMason

No, they’re equally as evil.


10 posted on 10/14/2016 3:50:24 AM PDT by VermithraxPejorative
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Recalling past days when three television channels delivered fact-based news

I do not believe that has been the case for my life, though it was better than it is today, so I know it hasn't been within his life, and more specifically since he came to America. They were just trusted more because they played a more reserved balanced game yet still tilted leftward. Today that mask is off completely and has been since the mid 70's at least.

11 posted on 10/14/2016 3:51:17 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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It will be taken to the streets next. Pamphlets, fliers if need be to fight what would happen with these tyrants. I hope conservatives are thinking what is coming up if Hillary frauds her way through.


12 posted on 10/14/2016 3:52:40 AM PDT by VermithraxPejorative
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< "There has to be, I think, some sort of way in which we can sort through information that passes some basic truthiness tests and those that we have to discard, because they just don't have any basis in anything that's actually happening in the world," Obama added.

.... Says the biggest liar in the world who has a fake SSN, fake birth certificate, that sealed up just about every damn recorded tied to him before the election and has people dying like flies all arround him.

13 posted on 10/14/2016 3:57:51 AM PDT by jsanders2001
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Obama is dangerous. Clinton is even worse.

Hussein Obama is a dangerous, Muslim traitor.

Hillary Clinton is for sale to the highest bidder.

After Hussein agreed to kill the indictments, Hillary thinks she is free to inherit Obama's crown. What the deal to keep Hillary out of jail actually brings to the table is that Hussein owns Hillary and Bill Clinton. That means Hussein Obama's pro-Muslim terrorist agenda will continue. Many more Americans will die if Hussein and Hillary are successful.

The Table shows that as Hussein imports more Muslims, more terrorists will show up to kill innocent Americans. And Hillary will continue to agitate and support the BLM cop killers just as Hussein Obama has done.

14 posted on 10/14/2016 3:59:45 AM PDT by politicianslie (What would a terrorist do if he were made POTUS? : Exactly what Hussein Obama is doing)
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Since more and more people get their info via Facebook, Youtube, and other Internet media, the ability to censor dissenting viewpoints in these media outlets will be increasingly important to the Left.

Hence, the reason he gave away control of the internet.

15 posted on 10/14/2016 4:00:21 AM PDT by CAluvdubya (<---has now left CA for NV, where God/guns have not been outlawed! She's done and he's won!)
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I'm sure Obama is referring to the New Internet that he handed off which will have full information control flow and censorship befitting NWO specs and is under the ontrol of the UN
16 posted on 10/14/2016 4:01:48 AM PDT by jsanders2001
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"We are going to have to rebuild within this wild-wild-west-of-information flow some sort of curating function that people agree to..."

Yeah! Yeah! And we can give it a snappy name like "Ministry of Truth" and every knee shall bow!

17 posted on 10/14/2016 4:02:44 AM PDT by Flag_This (Liberals are locusts.)
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To: PapaBear3625

Not wild west at all, but a well coordinated murderous coup with the media.

I hear the Podesta emails allude to a hit a couple days before Scalia’s death


18 posted on 10/14/2016 4:03:41 AM PDT by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security Whorocracy & hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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His efforts to suppress any opposition will become apparent now that he signed,away Internet control..


19 posted on 10/14/2016 4:05:06 AM PDT by SueRae (An election like no other..)
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I think we will all agree one day Obama is a false messiah, ie a narcissist with a knack to gain followers, a coup plotter and murderer, prince of
lies


20 posted on 10/14/2016 4:05:22 AM PDT by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security Whorocracy & hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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