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Mar 20 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
This article from FoxNews .com is a perfect example of how the Fox Cinematic Universe works. Published March 20, 2023 4:39pm EDT Manhattan DA gets pumme
The editorial board (not the news reporters, the opinion columnists) of The Wall Street Journal (Fox's corporate cousin) published an op-ed attacking Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg.

Then Fox runs a "news" article about that opinion piece, promoting it's claims as if they were factual.
Then Fox's other reporters and opinion hosts, and others in the right-wing media echo chamber will pick up THIS "reporting" as if it's news. And suddenly the story is "Alvin Braagg is facing criticism over Trump indictment."
But where the criticism coming from? Legal theorists? Historians? Scholars? Law enforcement?

Nope... the criticism is coming from Trump's political supporters, working for political organizations pretending to be news outlets. This simply isn't news!

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