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The age of 'fake news' has just begun [BARF ALERT]
the hill ^ | 12/06/20 | JOE FERULLO

Posted on 12/08/2020 3:52:51 AM PST by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

But Newsmax and OANN understand that mimicking conventional programming helps their dire and drastic stories seem acceptable and reasonable. Greg Kelly, the rising star of Newsmax, was himself once a reliable, chatty mainstream morning news show personality on local TV in New York.


And these relatively small operations can look big time on a budget. No need any longer for down-market mimeographs. Thanks to the digital revolution, putting together a sophisticated news studio doesn’t cost much at all.


That’s a red flag for what may be coming. As more extreme parts of the post-Trump audience break off from outlets like Fox News in search of an info-bubble better suited to their needs, radical outlets can easily pose as reliable, researched, fact-based news and lure them in.

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


TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: fakenews; thehill
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The Hill complains about "fake news." Because free speech bad.
1 posted on 12/08/2020 3:52:51 AM PST by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

Compare debt lol


2 posted on 12/08/2020 3:58:16 AM PST by Ymani Cricket ( "Pressure Makes Diamonds" ~General Patton)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

The author’s bio... whodathunkit?...

“Joe Ferullo is an award-winning media executive, producer and journalist and former executive vice president of programming for CBS Television Distribution. He was a news executive for NBC, a writer-producer for “Dateline NBC,” and worked for ABC News.”


3 posted on 12/08/2020 3:58:58 AM PST by AnglePark
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

After you’ve watched some hours of CNN’s fake-round-table forum chatter....you come to realize that you could gather up four Barbers from Tulsa and some 19-year old first-year college student as a moderator, and get the same basic package. Course, you’d have to dress the five in full up suits, and open-blouses for the ladies....but it’s the same thing.

You’ve got too many pretenders that arrived over the past thirty years who can’t really dish out the news.


4 posted on 12/08/2020 4:02:50 AM PST by pepsionice
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
"post-Trump"?


5 posted on 12/08/2020 4:04:25 AM PST by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkeys )
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

It clearly bothers Leftists that Conservatives and American Patriots are building their own news networks and social media platforms like Newsmax, OANN, Parler, etc the Left can’t control.


6 posted on 12/08/2020 4:07:29 AM PST by FLT-bird
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

I love it when the Left shows their fear of not being able to control the narrative.


7 posted on 12/08/2020 4:09:39 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

Barf alert is right, I couldn’t even finish that article. I am so sick to death of these leftist assholes calling people who believe in the constitution and freedom as “far right”


8 posted on 12/08/2020 4:15:14 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free equal justice under the law will never exist in the USA)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

Wow I didn’t realize this was the same Greg Kelly the son of former NYC Police commissioner Ray Kelly. My dad is good friends with him. Wow not to insult Newsmax but what happened to Greg? He was on primetime TV making mucho bucks


9 posted on 12/08/2020 4:20:45 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free equal justice under the law will never exist in the USA)
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He was on primetime TV making mucho bucks

He sees the future.

It doesn't look like NYC.

10 posted on 12/08/2020 4:38:54 AM PST by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries. )
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

Joe’s a 10kw projector. Saying others are what he actually is, i.e. in a bubble.

And jealous. His/their stage lights are blinking and fading.

And worried. Losing control of the leftist cult narrative.

If, God forbid, Biden wins, the Internet gets squeezed fast and hard, and goodbye FR.


11 posted on 12/08/2020 4:43:08 AM PST by polymuser (A socialist is a communist without the power to take everything from their citizens...yet.)
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To: FreedomPoster

Copying is one of the best forms of flattery. By the left now calling the new media outlets as “fake news” they are complimenting Trump by using his words, who was able to brand them as news fakers, fraudsters and hoaxers.

They are now running behind the bus and can’t catch up. These “news” losers, really propagandists, don’t see it. Talk about living in a sheltered world.


12 posted on 12/08/2020 4:52:55 AM PST by Susquehanna Patriot ( )
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That alleged ‘age’ started about a decade or so ago......


13 posted on 12/08/2020 5:03:51 AM PST by cranked
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See BS
NYet Times
boston Glob
LAtte Times
NBC
WashPoo
ABC
Et al

All have been busted faking news, making up quotes, forging documents and photos and presenting them as ‘fact’.

Election night reporting was more fake news.


14 posted on 12/08/2020 5:06:29 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Who built the cages, Joe?)
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To: AnglePark

Isn’t Dateline NBC the bullsh1t program where they attached a model rocket engine to a pickup truck gas tank to demonstrate the risk of explosion in a car wreck?


15 posted on 12/08/2020 5:08:21 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Who built the cages, Joe?)
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To: a fool in paradise

Oddly enough, it’s difficult to make a car actually explode in an accident. It helps if you strap an explosive device to it to get the desired affect.


16 posted on 12/08/2020 5:12:01 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: a fool in paradise

I don’t know, but I wouldn’t be surprised by anything these idiots do anymore. I haven’t really watched mainstream news or news programs in ages.


17 posted on 12/08/2020 5:14:22 AM PST by AnglePark
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

Liberal media unhappy that Fox News was exposed as Controlled Opposition and their viewers have bolted.


18 posted on 12/08/2020 5:14:37 AM PST by marcusmaximus
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To: AnglePark

Dateline NBC 1992
NBC Caught Lying About Chevrolet Trucks Exploding
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtpMzGN9uWc


19 posted on 12/08/2020 5:21:24 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Who built the cages, Joe?)
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It would be great is someone could show that this guy was on the staff, or the producer, when that one was made. Talk about fake news...

I guess they’ve been bad for a long, long time now.


20 posted on 12/08/2020 5:24:11 AM PST by AnglePark
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