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kpete's JournalAdd a little Arpaio, pinch of Clarke, soupcon of Rudy: talk to trump for 10 min & you Duterte!
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Whos Really to Blame for Fake News - Look in the mirror, America.
What is truly horrifying is that fake news is not the manipulation of an unsuspecting public. Quite the opposite. It is willful belief by the public. In effect, the American people are accessories in their own disinformation campaign.
That is our current situation, and it is no sure thing that either truth or democracy survives.
Investigations of fake news have reported that it is a commodity — primarily a way for its perpetrators, many of whom are young people overseas, to earn money by blasting out ludicrous material for which there is an audience, and in that respect it is no different from many of the alt-right sites. Commodity or not, fake news has already played a role, perhaps a substantial one, in Donald Trump’s election, especially since his campaign was aided by Russian hackers and trolls disseminating falsities — everything from Hillary Clinton using a body double to Pope Francis endorsing Trump to ongoing charges of voting irregularities to Clinton heading a child-trafficking ring out of a pizzeria.
There is now a Gresham’s law in news as in money: Phony news pushes out real news.
We have been heading in this direction for a long time, not because people necessarily love the outlandishly scurrilous or because they are joyfully conspiratorial (though both of those things are probably true), but because it is to the benefit of the right wing, as I have written in earlier posts, to disrupt truth. Conservatives have a near-monopoly on that disruption. A Buzzfeed analysis of fake news found only one viral false election story from a left-wing site.
the rest:
http://billmoyers.com/story/whos-reallyto-blame-fake-news/
Trump Denies Trying To Build Hotels In Taiwan, Forgets To Delete Facebook Brags About It
"WORK TRIP"
https://twitter.com/appellation/status/805389490227466240
In a Facebook exchange with a friend on 15 October, Donoghue said: “OMG I’m in Taipei now and love it here. Flying to Hong Kong in a few hours. Miss you too!!”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/dec/03/trumps-taiwan-phone-call-preceded-by-hotel-development-inquiryhttp://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-aides-deny-plans-to-invest-in-taiwan-1480797511
The Real Risk Behind Trump's Taiwan Calls:
MORE:
http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-real-risk-behind-trumps-taiwan-call
Wow Trump must really hate that Alec Baldwin impression
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
Just tried watching Saturday Night Live - unwatchable! Totally biased, not funny and the Baldwin impersonation just can't get any worse. Sad
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/805278955150471168
In reply to Donald J. Trump:
ABFoundation ?@ABFalecbaldwin 8h8 hours ago
...@realDonaldTrump
Release your tax returns and I'll stop.
Ha
https://twitter.com/ABFalecbaldwin/status/805284113741729792
1939 note, NBC regretted not censoring an announcer after he called Hitler a "madman"
https://twitter.com/joshshepperd/status/805047199914659840
The letter from Carrier to its employees that Donald Trump doesnt want you to read
In sum, about 800 American jobs are being saved, but another 1,300 are disappearing. Those painful details were acknowledged in a letter Carrier sent to affected workers on Thursday that was posted to Twitter by Indianapolis-based journalist Rafael Sánchez.
https://thinkprogress.org/carrier-letter-trump-doesnt-want-you-to-read-bccb2eee9c3d#.mluw6asx8
"Now is the time..."
America loves winners, but victory does not absolve. Victory, especially a slender one decided by a few thousand votes in a handful of states, does not guarantee respect. Nobody automatically deserves deference on ascending to the leadership of any country. American journalists know this only too well when reporting on foreign leaders—their default mode with Africans, for instance, is nearly always barely concealed disdain. President Obama endured disrespect from all quarters. By far the most egregious insult directed toward him, the racist movement tamely termed “birtherism,” was championed by Trump.
Yet, a day after the election, I heard a journalist on the radio speak of the vitriol between Obama and Trump. No, the vitriol was Trump’s. Now is the time to burn false equivalencies forever. Pretending that both sides of an issue are equal when they are not is not “balanced” journalism; it is a fairy tale—and, unlike most fairy tales, a disingenuous one.
Now is the time to refuse the blurring of memory. Each mention of “gridlock” under Obama must be wrought in truth: that “gridlock” was a deliberate and systematic refusal of the Republican Congress to work with him. Now is the time to call things what they actually are, because language can illuminate truth as much as it can obfuscate it. Now is the time to forge new words. “Alt-right” is benign. “White-supremacist right” is more accurate.
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Now is the time to frame the questions differently. If everything remained the same, and Hillary Clinton were a man, would she still engender an overheated, outsized hostility? Would a woman who behaved exactly like Trump be elected? Now is the time to stop suggesting that sexism was absent in the election because white women did not overwhelmingly vote for Clinton. Misogyny is not the sole preserve of men.
MORE:
http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/now-is-the-time-to-talk-about-what-we-are-actually-talking-about?mbid=social_twitter
John Bolton wrote about "a diplomatic ladder of escalation that would compel Beijing's attention
By JOHN BOLTON
Jan. 17, 2016 1:04 p.m. ET
http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-u-s-can-play-a-taiwan-card-1453053872
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