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Some people can also be more than merely the sum of their political affiliations.

 

No. It doesn't. There is a clear difference. Enjoy continuing to hammer the same points, though.

 

The disillusionment of Trumpers will be sad to watch.

Trump's 'America-First' Plan Is Already Going Up in Flames

 

Just curious ... what distinguishes mere partisan hackery (e.g., Rather's Memogate) from fake news?

 

I worked in a shop that was exclusively white and had two ordained Evangelical preachers working in the newsroom. You should should have seen one of them go ballistic when a letter writer called him a liberal over a story about sewer rates. And every election year, I got tickled by letter writers saying the paper was "obviously" backing the Democrat - then we'd endorse the Republican.

 

The LTC Burketts of the world have now taken out the middleman (Rather), who in most cases is a filter and authenticator, however flawed individual situations may have been.

 

Right. This is the answer. The Rather thing was fake news. In fact, mainstream outlets get bamboozled on fake news way too often. But to me, "fake news" that we're talking about here is typically published on a fly-by-night news site, almost always with a conservative or liberal agenda, and passed off as real news directly to the readers, not through a gullible conduit like Rather.

 

What was the circulation of this news leader?

 

While we're at it, how about the original reports on the "heroic" death of Pat Tillman and the "daring" rescue of Jessica Lynch.

 

You don't think that people in the media, or people here, don't believe with all their heart that 1 in 5 women are sexually assaulted in college? Only once you challenge them do they resort to, "Well, it still addresses a big problem." There is a very passionate woman on my Facebook feed, and she's constantly posting items about Brock Turner or "rape culture." When I challenge her facts, or the journalism circulated, she either tells me that I'm nitpicking her broader point, or questions my motives, i.e. why are you defending rapists?

 

That's not as disingenuous as it seems.

Letter writer reads the paper daily. Sees the way headlines are written. Sees which stories are chosen to publish . . . and notices which ones were not. Sees centerpiece photos on gay pride parades and Black Lives Matter marches. To him, this paper obviously leans liberal.

Even if the Editorial Board --- a completely different set of people from the ones who provided the examples above --- endorses the conservative.