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Read @ParkerMolloy on how a rumor about "concrete milkshakes" went viral, raising the temperature on an already-fraught situation. mediamatters.org/blog/2019/07/0…
Incidentally, milkshakes made with cashew milk and coconut-based ice cream are thoughtfully vegan, but if you unknowingly hit someone with one who has a severe tree-nut allergy, there's a risk you'll send them into potentially lethal anaphylaxis.
(Is the state of affairs such that I need to explicitly say 'don't accidentally murder people' or is that sufficiently implied?)
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"Propaganda machine" and other criticisms current and former Fox staffers have levied at the network since Trump's election, from longtime employees who blasted it on the way out to on-air anchors slamming primetime colleagues to anonymous sniping. mediamatters.org/research/2019/…
You'd expect to see quotes about Fox like this coming from @mmfa, not from people who worked at the network.
@mmfa Carl Cameron, former chief political correspondent, 22 years at Fox: "The right-wing hosts drowned out straight journalism with partisan misinformation."

"“The access that some at Fox have in the entertainment side to the president is questionable" and they are “allied.”
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Color me skeptical that the Mueller hearings will expose the worst things in the report to "Fox News viewers." They're going to be getting information on the hearings from Fox, and that is not what Sean Hannity is going to be talking about on his show that night.
There's certainly a universe of people who could learn more about the report from the hearing, and it's good that the hearing is happening. But the Fox News bubble is, by design, too secure to let this stuff leak in too much.
Wallace and Smith will explain to the (small) afternoon audience that Mueller shows Trump did bad things, with the clips going viral on journo/activist Twitter. Then a few hours later, prime-time crew will tell their (much larger) audience the hearings show Mueller is crooked.
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Bill O'Reilly was the most powerful force in cable news for a decade and a half. He now writes columns for his website about "radical leftwing billionaire George Soros" and his "plan for your life."
@owillis abort abort abort they know
There's literally nothing in this column tying Soros in particular to anything. He appears as the photo image and in the first sentence as the creator of this "plan" and that's it. Hmmmmmm.
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