"Farhi. That's an interesting name."
Posted on 12/12/2015 6:48:39 AM PST by Lake Living
Once a small fringe, this “alternative†information ecosystem now includes websites, talk-radio programs, newsletters, conferences and “citizen journalists†who promote, debate and inflate such questionable causes as vaccine denial, climate-change skepticism , and the supposedly imminent imposition of sharia law in America. The fringe nowadays often injects its ideas into the mainstream by gaining the attention of sources broadly popular among conservatives, such as Fox News and the Drudge Report...
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Related...
Mainstream media’s shrinking impact
http://iceagenow.info/2015/12/mainstream-medias-shrinking-impact/
Real headline:
Washington Post does not like competition; prefers liberal media cartel.
Yes they are .. because they have been shown to be totally lacking in the journalism dept.
“Fringe” - definition: Outside the Beltway, Manhattan, Hollywood, Academia
The best example of this is the overwhelming provable scientific fraud committed to prove climate change and only "fringe news" is telling us of the corrupted science to prove something for politics. The MSM has made themselves nothing more than a propaganda machine for liberals, of course people want to find real news.
As told by the Whitehouse stenographers.
Independent reporting is spoiling the Party Line.
I noticed that in Drudge. Yeah, the Washington Compost is crying in its beer.
Somebody’s tellin’ the truth and it ain’t the Washington Post.
Jeff Bezos, the gig is up. We’re awake.
News that does not agree with the liberal agenda is “fringe news”?
"Fringe" - not left-wing establishment...
THANK YOU DONALD TRUMP!
Now you can be a gift shop clerk, a Navy vet in a wheelchair, or a 6 times fired high-school drop-out from Missouri and bring the MSM to its very knees.
THAT is how rotten it is.
I think he means like when a group of blacks claim a Denny’s somewhere delayed seating them right away, and it becomes a huge national story designed to show that we are all evil American whites and blacks all over the country are practically being lynched.
Is that the kind of “fringe” news story exaggeration he is talking about?
Thanks! Good article!
Here’s a direct link for other readers:
http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/media/262749-the-shrinking-impact-of-mainstream-media
Thank you for the link
Fringe news? As opposed to what
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.