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Finally found some fake news.

Mar 16, 2018 5:29PM PDT

It's over at https://leadstories.com/ and I tried a few test topics around a few friends.

Result? Some of my friends are gullible.

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(NT) A fascinating site. Thanks.
Mar 16, 2018 6:46PM PDT
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As per the cabin dweller
Mar 16, 2018 10:41PM PDT

If it's not from Fox news it's fake.

As for your friends they sound normal to me.

Most folks don't abuse themselves with trying to understand the crew we have driving the bus.

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(NT) You might have missed the point.
Mar 16, 2018 11:26PM PDT
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If the point is
Mar 17, 2018 12:29AM PDT

There is a lot of junk on the web?......there sure is.

Often it's not news it's opinion.

So when you read something that's of interest to you you need to dig around a little to find out if your reading fact or opinion.

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In the older news papers
Mar 17, 2018 2:11AM PDT

as well as on TV news casts, their was a small space or time reserved for editorials. Editorials reflect opinion. Today's newspapers and TV news casts might reserve a small amount of space or time for actual news. The majority of the material, though often disguised, is editorial in nature. That's my own opinion, of course.

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That isn't news.
Mar 17, 2018 8:50AM PDT
Happy
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Ever watch OAN?
Mar 17, 2018 10:15AM PDT
http://www.oann.com/

Lots of opinion on the shows, but the news is reported mostly older "Cronkite" style, of just what it is.
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Looks OK on the face of it,
Mar 17, 2018 4:38PM PDT

especially the blonde. Happy
Got variety. I wonder if the full name is from optimism or cluelessness.
As easy to read through as Reuters; much better on phone than CNN. BBC is somewhat messy but very well organized.
"Family owned", so should be easy enough to filter their prejudices after a while. [I don't mind them because I do my own choosing anyway.
Related: The Washington Post is considered a major paper [didn't they once hire Redford and Hoffman?] but is now openly anti-Trump, in a way that leads me to suspect the newsroom. Stopped using it.

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when you see...
Mar 17, 2018 10:13AM PDT

...the news people start talking to another news reporter during a broadcast is when the propaganda alarm should start going off, like a ring tone on a phone, "Warning, Danger, Will Robinson" (Lost in Space robot). The very minute they start "discussing" a news story, know the BS is about to spray across the screen and through the speakers.

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Here in NM,
Mar 17, 2018 4:26PM PDT

the state that's a small town, they're just fleshing out a story with gossip. Happy