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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAmerica is Awash in Fake News
http://www.alternet.org/media/america-awash-fake-newsThe media landscape in America is dominated by fake news. It has been for decades. This fake news does not emanate from the Kremlin. It is a multibillion-dollar-a-year industry that is skillfully designed and managed by public relations agencies, publicists and communications departments on behalf of individuals, government and corporations to manipulate public opinion.
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America is Awash in Fake News (Original Post)
rainy
Dec 2016
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H2O Man
(73,333 posts)1. Recommended.
bdamomma
(63,658 posts)2. can we just call it
propaganda.
InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,110 posts)4. More descriptive and accurate, yes.
ffr
(22,649 posts)3. If the news headline read, "PEOTUS Clinton" day after day,
I think we could fool 63M Americans and HRC would be president.
They'd just accept it as truth. Now to get Fox Noise to perpetrate it.