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gulliver

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11. The whole news parody they do.
Sun Oct 6, 2013, 09:12 PM
Oct 2013

They simulate basically all of the motifs and components of authentic news programming. They have "anchors." They have a "crawl." They even throw in fact-based stuff like sports and the weather to add to the authenticity of the charade. You will never catch them "breaking" or laughing at the audience—at least openly. It's a masterly display of self-control, completely shameless Zen-like lying. They even have "fact checking." There is no more brilliant, consistent display of raw, dishonest propaganda than Fox News. There should be an Emmy category.

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Yes CurtEastPoint Oct 2013 #1
GMTA GreenPartyVoter Oct 2013 #16
Fear. blkmusclmachine Oct 2013 #2
Repetition. Curmudgeoness Oct 2013 #3
That was my immediate thought etherealtruth Oct 2013 #4
Yep, repetition. Ad infinitum, ad nauseum. n/t Fridays Child Oct 2013 #6
The cleverest one I know is "some people are saying" doc03 Oct 2013 #5
How could I know? JDPriestly Oct 2013 #7
Don't act like you don't know their tactics. Curmudgeoness Oct 2013 #9
That's difficult to choose from, the sum = far more than the indivdual parts, Uncle Joe Oct 2013 #8
Disparaging education warrant46 Oct 2013 #10
The whole news parody they do. gulliver Oct 2013 #11
Calling NPR liberal when it's certainly not coldmountain Oct 2013 #12
Ubiquity helps... uriel1972 Oct 2013 #13
Innuendo n/t TroglodyteScholar Oct 2013 #14
Conning the corporate media into mainstreaming RW memes (using BIG LIE of "liberal media bias") Faryn Balyncd Oct 2013 #15
Stupid audience. OffWithTheirHeads Oct 2013 #17
The brains can't be washed when there ain't brains to start with!1 n/t UTUSN Oct 2013 #18
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