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MinM

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45. Meme-jacking by the Breitbarts of the world ..

Sat Jul 30, 2016, 11:00 AM

Jul 2016

Given that the right dominates talk radio and cable news .. I guess we shouldn't be surprised when they serve as an echo chamber for the far right blogs ie., Breibart, Alex Jones...

Good job deconstructing and analyzing this, guillaumeb.

On The Media has an episode this weekend that deals with many of these same issues:

@onthemedia

Shows up! Trump v. Putin, the German far-Right's media strategy, and a brand new BNCH for migration.

Here's one segment...

Breaking News Consumer's Handbook: Migration Edition (Abroad)

Jul 29, 2016

Migration and refugees have been in the news a lot in the last two years; a deeper understanding of migration and refugees, unfortunately, has not. From misleading language to distorted facts to the abuse of the very term "breaking news" (when in fact emigration, particularly into Europe, tends to remain constant) -- coverage of refugees and migration is all too often predictably poor.

Brooke talks with Heaven Crawley, Coventry University's International Migration Chair, about mass migration myths and how to identify them when they crop up in the news. The result is Part One of our Breaking News Consumer's Handbook: Migration Edition.

http://www.wnyc.org/story/bnch-migration-heaven-crawley

The transcript will be available Monday but you can listen at the link.

keywords: swarm, flood, wave...

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This message was self-deleted by its author [View all] guillaumeb Jul 2016 OP

"Most stories say the government is deliberately hiding this from 'reliable sources'. Shandris Jul 2016 #1

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Ooh, another dime. Good job. Shandris Jul 2016 #7

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you are right. i'm not taking the bait where someone is excusing murder and sex assault. MariaThinks Jul 2016 #26

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If the posters flipping out about migrants actually cared about the safety of women and children LeftyMom Jul 2016 #2

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Really? MariaThinks Jul 2016 #27

Yes, they're blinded by their bigotry. giftedgirl77 Jul 2016 #34

i really wasn't hating anyone at the point that i heard that a muslim radical killed a kindly priest MariaThinks Jul 2016 #49

Lol, the problem is you are waaayyyy more concerned with what giftedgirl77 Jul 2016 #56

who said they were? I'm not hearing of Israelis commitment suicide bombings around the world. MariaThinks Jul 2016 #59

Absolutely. LeftyMom Jul 2016 #43

allowing the migrants in was a gesture of caring. The migrants killing the innocent people is not. MariaThinks Jul 2016 #50

The fact that you think "migrants" and "innocent people" are separate categories proves my point. LeftyMom Jul 2016 #57

not at all. you're missing my point. Do you have any sympathy and ideas for the innocent MariaThinks Jul 2016 #58

Sort of related - I was just on Reddit reading stuff from Drumpfsters Avalux Jul 2016 #4

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i thought there was a beheading of a priest in France last week by a 'radicalized muslim'. MariaThinks Jul 2016 #28

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it doesn't take much to find it. look on any newspaper or website on any given day and the murder is MariaThinks Jul 2016 #46

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without the crime there would be nothing to push. MariaThinks Jul 2016 #48

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only in the threads you seem to respond to - examples MariaThinks Jul 2016 #60

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Judging from specific posts and specific responses, the pattern I'm, seeing is this... LanternWaste Jul 2016 #9

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This ^^^ treestar Jul 2016 #25

👍 ronnie624 Jul 2016 #61

i think the issue is they aren't the usual crimes JI7 Jul 2016 #10

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That's not what the text you cite says. Bluenorthwest Jul 2016 #19

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There are folks who hate facts malaise Jul 2016 #13

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Excellent malaise Jul 2016 #17

Taharrush Gamea is a real thing PrideofJefferson Jul 2016 #14

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What you say here is not what the article says. Bluenorthwest Jul 2016 #18

Read #20 guillaumeb Jul 2016 #21

Searching? PrideofJefferson Jul 2016 #22

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The head in the sand language is always used treestar Jul 2016 #24

It sounds like you are getting very close to excusing PrideofJefferson Jul 2016 #30

NO it doesn't treestar Jul 2016 #32

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No offense PrideofJefferson Jul 2016 #42

You're actually caring about the victims, instead of finding excuses. Good to see. MariaThinks Jul 2016 #29

Thank you for that treestar Jul 2016 #23

Do you view Christianity is misogynist? What about Islam? davidn3600 Jul 2016 #31

and without either of these religions, there is still treestar Jul 2016 #33

I never said there wasn't davidn3600 Jul 2016 #35

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I have a good friend in Goldbach (sp?) Germany JesterCS Jul 2016 #44

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Meme-jacking by the Breitbarts of the world .. MinM Jul 2016 #45

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Comments Igel Jul 2016 #47

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