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Re:Woman offers WaPo false tale about Roy Moore in effort to... by kevinburke on Monday November 27, 2017 @05:40PM (#15792299)
I don't think he cares. The goal is to muddy the waters and make it harder to do real journalism.

The story on right wing websites tomorrow will probably be "one of the accusers was obviously lying - this raises questions about the other ones," never mind the lying one was paid by a right wing site.

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Re:Woman offers WaPo false tale about Roy Moore in effort to... by microcolonel on Monday November 27, 2017 @05:57PM (#15792465)
> I don't think he cares. The goal is to muddy the waters and make it harder to do real journalism.

I think, generally, the result has been that it's harder to do fake journalism; at least when it comes to the undercover work.

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