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People Believe ‘Fake News’ Because They Want it to Be True
National Review ^
| 12/26/2018
| Jim Garaghty
Posted on 12/27/2018 2:23:19 PM PST by bitt
There was a time that this was the second busiest shopping day of the year, as everyone went back to the stores to return the gifts that they didnt like or that didnt fit. This year, its projected to be the eighth busiest shopping day of the year.
No, Really, Were Talking about Literal Fake News
One more major journalistic scandal before the year closes out:
Der Spiegel has announced that it will press charges against a former star reporter accused of systemically faking interviews and articles, in what might be the biggest journalism scandal in Germany since another newsmagazine published fake Hitler diaries 35 years ago
On Saturday night, the magazine announced in one of the many articles documenting Mr. [Claas] Relotiuss misdeeds that the editors would be filing a criminal complaint against him after it emerged that he had set up a private donation drive ostensibly to help two Syrian orphans that he had profiled.
According to Der Spiegel, only one of the two orphans exists, and the aid money went to the reporters private bank account.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; Politics/Elections
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To: bitt
Anti-American? They never reveal what the fake news was.
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posted on
12/27/2018 4:16:33 PM PST
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donna
(McCain - Flake - Sinema - McSally: Billionaires own Arizona)
To: All
Journalist Relotiuss editors are said to be filing a criminal complaint against him after it emerged that he:
(A) set up a private donation drive
(B) ostensibly to help two Syrian orphans
(C) orphans he had profiled
(D) According to Der Spiegel, only one of the two orphans exists,
(E) aid money he raised went to the reporters private bank account.
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posted on
12/27/2018 5:08:54 PM PST
by
Liz
(Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
To: Rinnwald
I made another one just for CNN -
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posted on
12/27/2018 7:49:28 PM PST
by
Baynative
("A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams." - John Barrymore)
To: Baynative
I accidentally saw that episode while visiting a reality-show addict. I successfully and completely forgot the name of it.
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posted on
12/27/2018 8:48:15 PM PST
by
pigsmith
(Liberals can't make the connection between their politics and the decline of everything around them.)
To: bitt
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posted on
12/28/2018 4:46:28 AM PST
by
NetAddicted
(Just looking)
To: Flick Lives
Wouldn’t it be der Klinton gemeinschaft?
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posted on
12/28/2018 6:24:37 AM PST
by
gr8eman
(Since God has been banished from our classrooms, Satan has filled the void.)
To: bitt
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10/17/2021 9:45:43 AM PDT
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dmam2011
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