MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE by Michael Wolraich Order today at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop |
Last week, Lee Camp, an acerbic left-wing comic, dedicated six minutes of his topical TV show, “Redacted Tonight,” to the discredited conspiracy theory that it wasn’t Russian hackers who leaked emails during the presidential election but Seth Rich, the Democratic National Committee staff member killed in a botched robbery.
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Read for insight into how popular memes spread and become part of the national discourse although what is one tribe’s meme is often another’s “fake news”. Here is an example that has no important consequences but which shows what the NYT, which I subscribed to a couple months ago, does in part, to inform on those memes. It demonstrates how ideas based on questionable to completely false representations of ideas or supposed facts become part of the divisive political discourse, and how what is left out of some reporting, or even what is left out of a supposed comedy routine, for instance, which might be presented as “just comedy” rather than news with a guiding attitude, says more than what is intended to be said.
I recommend as a quick read and will come back later and expand on what it says to me.
by A Guy Called LULU on Wed, 06/14/2017 - 3:39pm
Damn, just as I was feeling some relief from, my chronic scepticism about the MSM slanting their news, Lee Camp responds.
by A Guy Called LULU on Wed, 06/14/2017 - 6:00pm