The Smear: How Shady Political Operatives and Fake News Control What You See, What You Think, and How You Vote

A final example from Message Matters shows just how dishonest its messaging could be: ATTACK: “Health reform is pushing employers to not offer health insurance benefits at all.” RESPONSE: With the health law in place, 98 percent of workers who get coverage through their work are expected to keep their plans. In fact, the claim that 98 percent of wo

Emails dating back to Obama’s first months in office unmask transactional journalism conducted by Washington reporter Marc Ambinder from the Atlantic. He’s also written for New York Times, New Yorker, Washington Post, Vice, Hotline, ABC News, and CBS News.

The Post ends up publishing an embarrassing editor’s note. It reads, in part: A number of those [websites on PropOrNot’s Russia propaganda list] have objected to being included on PropOrNot’s list, and some of the sites, as well as others not on the list, have publicly challenged the group’s methodology and conclusions. The Post, which did not name

Although Media Matters initially described itself, inauspiciously, as a progressive research and information center, it quickly earned its stripes as a pro-Democrat smear group. It exists to obliterate conservative thought and eradicate any person, place, or thing that’s perceived to be a threat—particularly to Hillary Clinton throughout her two pr

Over the years, slandered celebrities gripe about the tabloids, and some sue, but nobody speaks seriously of “curating” them, removing them from store shelves, or censoring them from public view.

After all, the most powerful and well-funded propagandists in politics—liberals, conservatives, and the media—have been soundly defeated. Made into fools. Schooled by a political amateur.

Meltdown: Time weighs in with a cover showing a cartoon depiction of Trump as a featureless mouth, melting away like a hot wax statue with a one-word caption: “Meltdown.” The cover is in turn covered by other media, as if it’s news.

(According to the Obama administration’s own statistics, Trump is correct. In 2013 and 2014 alone, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement set loose in the United States 66,565 illegal immigrant criminals, who had 166,877 convictions, including 11,301 rapes or other types of assaults and 395 homicides. By mid-2015, more than 2,000 of those release

Dilanian’s interactions with the CIA include him “explicitly promising positive news coverage and sometimes sending the press office entire story drafts for review prior to publication.”