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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

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To: bitt

Anti-American? They never reveal what the fake news was.


21 posted on 12/27/2018 4:16:33 PM PST by donna (McCain - Flake - Sinema - McSally: Billionaires own Arizona)
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Journalist Relotius’s 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 reporter’s private bank account.

22 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.)
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To: Rinnwald

I made another one just for CNN -


23 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)
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To: Baynative

I accidentally saw that episode while visiting a reality-show addict. I successfully and completely forgot the name of it.


24 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.)
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To: bitt

Dramaturgy?


25 posted on 12/28/2018 4:46:28 AM PST by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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To: Flick Lives

Wouldn’t it be der Klinton gemeinschaft?


26 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.)
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To: bitt

So accurate, it’s scary.


27 posted on 10/17/2021 9:45:43 AM PDT by dmam2011
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