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pangaia

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Thu Feb 2, 2017, 08:32 PM Feb 2017

On The Moron In The Whitehouse....


"On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their hearts' desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron." - H.L. Mencken, Baltimore Sun, 1920
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On The Moron In The Whitehouse.... (Original Post) pangaia Feb 2017 OP
How he got his power PeopleAgainstHate Feb 2017 #1
1. How he got his power
Fri Feb 3, 2017, 12:31 AM
Feb 2017

The alt-right pro-Trump hate-filled tabloids that all of us grocery shoppers have to look at while standing in the checkout lanes were unquestionably instrumental in getting him elected. Let's get them out of the stores. Please sign our Move On petition - and pass it on!

http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/stop-selling-hate-filled?source=c.fwd&r_by=17478167

And here is a link to an article from Politico that lays it all out about the damage the tabloids do. If you don't want to read the whole article, please at least read this one paragraph from it:

"It’s easy to imagine that tabloids don’t matter; the Enquirer is a relatively small voice in the media kingdom, with a weekly circulation of only 342,071, down from the 5.9 million it commanded in the 1970s. But that misses the importance of the constant cultural background noise it adds to American life: There are 37,000 supermarkets in America, with an average of about 10 checkout stands each, and many stands feature a wire rack displaying the Enquirer, the Globe, often the company’s other tab, the National Examiner, and celebrity magazines. According to an industry study, American households make an average of 1.5 trips to the supermarket each week. Every customer passes by the checkout stand, which means that even people who never purchase a tabloid still absorb the ambient headlines, and those headlines can shape their view of the world."

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/01/tabloid-newspapers-trump-media-propaganda-214627
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