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"Fake News": The Emergence of a Post-Fact World
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Quote:Happy?  No.  Do you see another option?  Reagan killed the Fair Reporting Act, so things went this way pretty fast.  Balanced reporting is now gauche -- ask any successful reporter.  

You get what you reward.

*shrug*
The press in this country got started as partisan organs, we somehow managed to avoid slipping into fascism or what-have-you.  We can probably survive another "yellow press" a lot better than we can survive the top-down state propaganda you're apparently pining for.
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RE: "Fake News": The Emergence of a Post-Fact World - by SomeGuy - 01-16-2017, 10:57 AM

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