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struggle4progress

(118,290 posts)
Wed Nov 29, 2017, 08:44 AM Nov 2017

Project Veritas a textbook definition of 'fake news'

By Kathleen Parker

... Phillips baited the Post and the Post declined to play. Or, rather, the paper did what it’s supposed to do and checked out the story. This isn’t cause for trumpets and heraldry, mind you. It’s what journalists do. As opposed to what pseudo-journalists — also known as typists — claim they do. With a little footwork, Post reporters were able to trace Phillips to Project Veritas and demonstrated that her story was a fraud.

... If anyone should feel betrayed by O’Keefe, however, it would be all those people who have been duped into believing that the mainstream media are the bad guys. Let’s be very clear. The bad guys are the ones who knowingly lie ...

... Those who would purposely mislead or seek to confuse others are bad people ...

http://www.heraldnet.com/opinion/parker-project-veritas-a-textbook-definition-of-fake-news/

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Project Veritas a textbook definition of 'fake news' (Original Post) struggle4progress Nov 2017 OP
Project Veryfalse. tanyev Nov 2017 #1
BREAKING Kathleen Parker actually makes a point in an article underpants Nov 2017 #2
+ struggle4progress Nov 2017 #5
The real "fake news".. kentuck Nov 2017 #3
I believe an article in The Atlantic made the very same point GusBob Nov 2017 #4

underpants

(182,826 posts)
2. BREAKING Kathleen Parker actually makes a point in an article
Wed Nov 29, 2017, 11:22 AM
Nov 2017

I used to read her in our local paper. She floats around a topic and almost never actually says anything.

GusBob

(7,286 posts)
4. I believe an article in The Atlantic made the very same point
Wed Nov 29, 2017, 11:26 AM
Nov 2017

He is doing exactly what he accuses the mainstream media of doing

He might think it clever, but his sycophants are too stupid to understand anything

The best thing about this whole fiasco: all of O'Creeps failures indicate that liberal groups are catching on to his scams and are on the outlook. Also they are very bad at what they are trying to do

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