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Expert Brian Williams: "Fake News Played A Role In This Election, Continues To Find A Wide Audience"
RealClearPolitics ^ | December 8, 2016 | RealClearPolitics

Posted on 12/08/2016 11:40:54 AM PST by i88schwartz

WILLIAMS: ... fake news played a role in the election and continues to find a wide audience. A BuzzFeed news study of of Donald Trump's own tweets where they followed back news stories to their root source found more of them came from Breitbart originally than any other single source.

(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016issues; blamegame; brianwilliams; fakenews; hillary2016; msnbc; nbcnews; newmedia
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1 posted on 12/08/2016 11:40:54 AM PST by i88schwartz
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA... oh, he’s series?


2 posted on 12/08/2016 11:42:20 AM PST by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)
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How can news agencies and reporters go on about fake news when their coverage is so biased and selective?


3 posted on 12/08/2016 11:42:29 AM PST by rey
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4 posted on 12/08/2016 11:42:34 AM PST by Gamecock (Gun owner. Christian. Pro-American. Pro Law and Order. I am in the basket of deplorables.)
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The MSM is the Country’s greatest threat.

Parent companies include: Disney, Comcast, Time Warner.


5 posted on 12/08/2016 11:42:35 AM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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"Fake News Played A Role In This Election, Continues To Find A Wide Audience"

Oh, I don't know. From what I've heard the audience for fake news has been declining. Whether it be at CNN, MSNBC, New York Times.

Oh. Wait. That's probably not who he meant.

6 posted on 12/08/2016 11:42:44 AM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standairds at all -- Texas Eagle)
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Well he should know !


7 posted on 12/08/2016 11:43:04 AM PST by Col Frank Slade
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To: i88schwartz

He is the foremost expert on fake news.


8 posted on 12/08/2016 11:43:32 AM PST by rdl6989
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Not really all that wide an audience, though. Brian's ratings are in the toilet after all.
9 posted on 12/08/2016 11:43:33 AM PST by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
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Unreal...


10 posted on 12/08/2016 11:44:02 AM PST by ColdOne (( I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11~)
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I get confused. Isn’t Brian Williams the one who got fired for making up a fake story about being shot at while in a military helicopter or some such thing?


11 posted on 12/08/2016 11:44:21 AM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standairds at all -- Texas Eagle)
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Brian Williams commenting on fake news is to irony what irony is to irony.


12 posted on 12/08/2016 11:44:25 AM PST by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
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Brian”I was hit by enemy fire in a Chinook Helicopter in Iraq-well no not really”Williams? THAT news reporter?

https://www.rt.com/usa/231195-brian-williams-suspended-no-pay/


13 posted on 12/08/2016 11:45:12 AM PST by Beowulf9
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The mainstream media are in no position to lecture anybody about fake news. They have nothing but fake news.

Fake climate change, fake Russian threats, fake wonders of diversity, fake equality of religions — and all exploding before their eyes, but they are too stupid to notice.

I will take our fake news over theirs any time, but here again, I doubt that some of the “fake news” is fake at all, let’s see some proof. At least we should investigate some of the allegations that the MSM write off as fake news.


14 posted on 12/08/2016 11:48:29 AM PST by Peter ODonnell (Listen for my radio call-in program on channel A in your brain, yes caller ... I'm listening)
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Yeah ... fake news like “Trump is Racist” and “Hillary did nothing wrong”.


15 posted on 12/08/2016 11:48:40 AM PST by al_c (Obama's standing in the world has fallen so much that Kenya now claims he was born in America.)
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Yep, its funny how this fake news meme has gained such traction with liberals, when its the liberals who are the ones who disseminate lots of selective reporting, cherry picking news to report and which to ignore, and outright falsehoods.


16 posted on 12/08/2016 11:49:09 AM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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Dan Rather and Williams are the grandpa and father of fake news.


17 posted on 12/08/2016 11:49:45 AM PST by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small pittance)
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18 posted on 12/08/2016 11:50:13 AM PST by SoFloFreeper (Isaiah 25:8)
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Brian William is an expert on fake news because he is knee -deep in it.


19 posted on 12/08/2016 11:50:36 AM PST by BipolarBob
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20 posted on 12/08/2016 11:50:48 AM PST by SoFloFreeper (Isaiah 25:8)
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