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@RKBower1 @TracyJan @damianpaletta @TheArtist_MBS Quite a leap. From your experience (a too common one..) to a conclusion that ALL NEWS IS FAKE NEWS.

I'd say you ran into a systems problem... There is a way things are working in your town that has these outcomes. Find what that is, and your on your way to being a good

@RKBower1 @TracyJan @damianpaletta @TheArtist_MBS investigative journalist. Make your own news reporting!
It’s a bit odd? rich? confusing? for you to cite something like this and then have such absolute rejection of, say, WashPost and their rather strong, substantiated, fact driven investigations.
I wonder if you can see the

@RKBower1 @TracyJan @damianpaletta @TheArtist_MBS 3/ conflict in your thinking/experience? You accuse them (& others) of being fake, which forces you to reject their factual stories, which puts you in the position Exactly like the one you decry: You reject evidence in order to sustain the system. Just like your town powers did.

@RKBower1 @TracyJan @damianpaletta @TheArtist_MBS 4/ the system in this case is your belief system. In this you are precisly like Trump and mirror his belief system. (accident?). His system requires no conflicting stories to the haigography he requires to get through the day. anything that contradicts the story as it is Today

@RKBower1 @TracyJan @damianpaletta @TheArtist_MBS 5/ (it could change tomorrow) has to be forcefully rejected w (constitutionally dubious) attacks on the media. If the System that is Trump gets penetrated w facts the entire edifice will crumble like a hot air balloon. So it is all "fake news" to him.
We don't have to go along.

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