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The Fake-News Fallacy

April 7, 2019 by sergneri Leave a Comment

In the September 14, 2017 New Yorker, Adrian Chen wrote an essay on fake news. They use the byline ” Old fights about radio have lessons for new fights about the Internet”. Naturally, this containing some radio history, I was interested in the points made. “The greatest organizers of mass hysterias and the mass delusions … [Read more…]

Posted in: IT Failures, Politics, Racism, Thinking about Tagged: Dorothy Thompson, Father Charles Coughlin, FCC, Huey Long, Lyman Bryson, Mae West, NBC radio, Orson Wells, radio

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