"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
Sharyl Attkisson Explains the Origins of the 2016 'Fake News' Narrative in TedX Talk
Submitted by Melinda L. Secor on Mon, 2018-02-19 01:00
"'What if the whole anti-fake news campaign was an effort on somebody's part to keep us from seeing or believing certain websites and stories by controversializing them or labeling them as fake news?' Attkisson posited".
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