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Matthew Gertz
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These Fox town halls don't exist in a vacuum, they exist within the context of the network being a propaganda outlet that lies in order to damage progressives and help conservatives.
You can get some good headlines out of doing one and centrist pundits will love it, but the second you leave the stage, Fox will work overtime to undermine your message.
The benefit to your campaign is ephemeral at best; the benefit you provide to Fox by bolstering its legitimacy and helping it sell ads is durable. mediamatters.org/blog/2019/04/0…
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The Fox News Cabinet has begun weighing in on Robert Mueller's statement.
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This entire sequence of events -- with the NRA at war with longtime ad agency Ackerman McQueen -- was set in motion because @CydEHargis here at @mmfa watches every minute of NRATV and caught that ridiculous Thomas the Tank Engine in KKK hoods segment. thedailybeast.com/nratv-future-i…
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Robert Mueller's statement today is important even though he said nothing that wasn't in his report because Trump, Barr, and Fox's propagandists have been running a sustained disinformation campaign about the report's contents and too many journalists bought into it.
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