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Showing posts with label Fake news. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fake news. Show all posts
Sunday, 13 March 2022

Only Fools and Politics

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In a time when nothing you hear is necessarily true, when all of what you see is suspect and eye-witness accounts depend so much on the ideo...
Saturday, 25 April 2020

Pressed

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Donald Trump is an idiot. There, I said it. Actually, I have rarely thought of him in any other way, except for seeing in him what so many ...
Monday, 24 February 2020

Hobgoblins

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When travelling in the United States some years ago I was struck by what I thought at the time was a curious gullibility in accepting the m...
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Tuesday, 2 October 2018

The Fourth Estate

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The other day I watched The Post, the 2017 biopic of the Washington Post’s revelations about backroom dealings behind the Vietnam War. With...
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Wednesday, 25 January 2017

What’s the alternative?

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The latest variant in the fake news phenomenon is the ‘alternative fact’ farrago. Both of course, are intended to deceive but as Groucho sa...
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Thursday, 12 January 2017

Cheeky Fakers!

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Buzzfeed’s leaked intelligence that the CIA have actual video of Michelle Obama fellating a horse while Donald Trump pleasures a donkey wit...
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Wednesday, 16 November 2016

Fake Off!

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Emboldened by the Brexit vote the closeted bigots are taking to the streets and assaulting fragile people because of their colour, their re...
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