Posted on 08/12/2019 3:04:04 PM PDT by TomServo
ON SATURDAY MORNING, ABC News reported that Jeffrey Epstein—the financier recently charged with trafficking underage victims for sex—had killed himself in his jail cell. Other outlets were quick to follow up. So were conspiracists. Baseless theories flooded the internet from every conceivable direction. On Twitter, #ClintonBodyCount and #TrumpBodyCount both trended. (Epstein was once friendly with Bill Clinton and Donald Trump; the idea is that one or the other had Epstein silenced before he could implicate them in his crimes.) A Trump-appointed housing official, a Trump-friendly Fox Business host, the former Democratic senator for Missouri, and the band that released “Pumped Up Kicks” all got in on the action. Predictably, so did the president of the United States. On Saturday evening, Trump retweeted a message baselessly linking the Clintons to Epstein’s death.
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Journalism doesn’t flourish under fake news.
Propaganda yes.
Muckraking yes.
Journalism and objective fact finding? No
Why so much antisemitism?
Journalism = fiction
lol!
Three instances of LMAO all strung together .. ain't that precious !
They misspelled Gerbilism...
Columbia Journalism Review is fact checking jokes now.
I thought Snopes had made that their thing.
Epstein was a threat to the Clintons, we predicted the matriarch of the crime family Hillary F Clinton would have him killed off, she did, and as usual she will get away with it because she is above the law. NEXT
“”” But where conspiracies exacerbate it, journalism can work toward restoring it.”””
Yeah!!! Sure!!! Of course the journalists can restore credibility. They have proven themselves to be accurate reporters of the fact time and time again. (sarc)
Makes the Kennedy assassination look like child’s play
Enough of this “may you live in interesting times” crap.
President works for Putin or Epstein death suspicious?
Sadly, there are many Jews involved on all sides of the problem.
The conspiracy theory is the official narrative that they’re attempting to peddle. The funny thing is, literally nobody is buying it. Not the left, not the right, not the centrists, nobody.
Buggywhips
Blockbuster Video
Radio Shack
Journalism School
“Epstein was once friendly with Bill Clinton and Donald Trump...”
Typical, conflating the two relationships as basically indistinguishable is a monumental misrepresentation of reality.
Journalism is nothing but militant spin anymore.
Epstein is burning in hell so what else do his victims want?
Actually, what has flourished has been a series of authoritative, contradictory stories.
ML/NJ
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