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Re:Facebook Bans Louis Farrakhan, Milo Yiannopoulos, InfoWar... by libraryatnight on Thursday May 02, 2019 @11:10PM (#19815190)
Alex Jones knows he's wrong from the start and does it anyway until he gets to a point where he has to either apologize or make excuses. "Can people not make mistakes?" is such a horseshit question when you're talking about Alex Jones or any of his ilk.
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Re:Facebook Bans Louis Farrakhan, Milo Yiannopoulos, InfoWar... by stOneskull on Friday May 03, 2019 @12:20AM (#19815499)
it doesn't matter. just about every media is like that. many are much worse.
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Re:Facebook Bans Louis Farrakhan, Milo Yiannopoulos, InfoWar... by xzel on Friday May 03, 2019 @03:22AM (#19816251)
I’m pretty sure in terms of larger media followings most don’t sink to the “Sandyhook was a false flag” level.
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Re:Facebook Bans Louis Farrakhan, Milo Yiannopoulos, InfoWar... by pas on Friday May 03, 2019 @04:06AM (#19816462)
could you point to a worse medium (and show some examples of its badness)?
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Re:Facebook Bans Louis Farrakhan, Milo Yiannopoulos, InfoWar... by turk73 on Friday May 03, 2019 @08:58AM (#19817970)
The New York Times?

Read about how the Spanish American War got started and what role the media played in it.

Read about Puerto Rico.

None of this is new. What is new is how far the media elite have tried to take it this time. They dropped all semblance of objectivity out of fear that Trump would become some kind of despot. Or was the real fear that unconscionable crimes would be exposed? What would the people do if they found out their elites enjoyed having sex with children, for example?

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Re:Facebook Bans Louis Farrakhan, Milo Yiannopoulos, InfoWar... by ceejayoz on Friday May 03, 2019 @09:24AM (#19818153)
I suspect the "point to a worse medium" request was for a medium today, not the 1890s.
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Re:Facebook Bans Louis Farrakhan, Milo Yiannopoulos, InfoWar... by turk73 on Friday May 03, 2019 @11:49AM (#19819462)
It is diagnostic, however. The point is that the mass media is a player in the game, not the "4th Estate" or whatever high-minded bs they say they are. There is zero objectivity.
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