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A few weeks later, Cameron Harris, a new college graduate with a fervent interest in Maryland Republican politics and a need for cash, sat down at the kitchen table in his apartment to fill in the details Mr. Trump had left out. In a dubious art just coming into its prime, this bogus story would be his masterpiece.
Mr. Harris started by crafting the headline: BREAKING: Tens of thousands of fraudulent Clinton votes found in Ohio warehouse. It made sense, he figured, to locate this shocking discovery in the very city and state where Mr. Trump had highlighted his rigged meme.
I had a theory when I sat down to write it, recalled Mr. Harris, a 23-year-old former college quarterback and fraternity leader. Given the severe distrust of the media among Trump supporters, anything that parroted Trumps talking points people would click. Trump was saying rigged election, rigged election. People were predisposed to believe Hillary Clinton could not win except by cheating.
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MrScorpio
(73,630 posts)I'm not.
FDT.
shraby
(21,946 posts)renate
(13,776 posts)I could just cry.
You know, I think the problem is that non-Fox/RW-news people are just plain smarter than Fox/RW-news people. Not always, but on average. Fox has conditioned its viewers to be completely and utterly credulous. A left-wing false-news website would never get off the ground--I mean, QED, because it's obviously totally easy to make crap up, but there isn't one.
GeorgeGist
(25,311 posts)like sex offenders.