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Mr. Limited Hangout Laments The Rise Of Corporate Click-Bait News
Submitted by A. Magnus on Wed, 2015-05-27 00:00
"Renowned media scholar Noam Chomsky has declared that the Buzzfeed-style of clickbait journalism is a new form of propaganda aimed at “manufacturing consent” in the interests of elite, dominant groups in society."
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Chomsky's probably right about that.