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(5,621 posts)The Faux Fracas in Nevada: How a Reporter Manufactured a Riot
May 18, 2016
The Faux Fracas in Nevada: How a Reporter Manufactured a Riot
by Doug Johnson Hatlem
Jon Ralston, the dean of political reporting in Nevada, has spread nothing less than a pack of lies about what went down at the states Democratic convention on Saturday. And the fact averse oligarchic national media has run completely riot with the provable falsehoods. No chairs were thrown at the convention Saturday. No death threats were made against the chair of the convention Roberta Lange. And Bernie Sanders delegates were not simply mad because their louder shouting was ignored.
Ralston has been the culprit behind each of these falsehoods; and the New York Times, CNN, MSNBC, and a dizzying array of other outlets have swallowed them whole then regurgitated them for their much more massive audiences.
http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/05/18/the-faux-fracas-in-nevada-how-a-reporters-pack-of-lies-ran-riot-in-the-fact-averse-media/
You've been had.
Z