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Cerridwen

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4. Thank you.
Mon May 2, 2016, 01:56 PM
May 2016

All the articles I listed in the OP are based on the same event. Each outlet put its own spin on it. cbs had two different narratives they used. How the hell can anyone stay informed if the press plays "fast and loose" with facts; reporting some facts but not others, removing context from events, misleading headlines, burying the lead, inserting carefully selected quotes and conflating them into dishonest article.

It's not just the radical right wing (rrw) doing this. It's the very industry that many people rely on to stay informed and up to date. And, it's not just the so called, mainstream media doing it. I've seen the dishonest article and video posted as fact in many forums.

I'd also like to ask, as I asked Cha, if you wouldn't mind, please help keep the OP in gd p kicked so that hopefully, some of the dishonestly from the press can be seen by as many as just accepted the other video as fact.

Thanks again.

Mahalo for this, Cerridwen Cha May 2016 #1
You're welcome. Cerridwen May 2016 #3
Another RW meme sent down the toilet COLGATE4 May 2016 #2
Thank you. Cerridwen May 2016 #4
Wow. Laid out expertly. Thank you. K&R fleabiscuit May 2016 #5
Thanks and you're welcome. Cerridwen May 2016 #7
K&R! DemonGoddess May 2016 #6
Thank you. Cerridwen May 2016 #8
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