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Jim Hightower, Salon: Politics
Sat, 03/25/2017 - 4:00am

(Credit: Getty/seb_ra) A decade ago some barons of the media establishment designated themselves America’s official arbiters of political truth. One of their tools is PolitiFact, a project of the Tampa Bay Times and several other major newspapers, which issues an award for the year’s most outrageous falsehood. Last year’s election was infested with so much disinformation and dishonesty, however, that PolitiFact’s 2016 Lie of the Year was not a single prevarication, but that cluster bomb of whoppers collectively branded “fake news.” Just as troubling as fake news is the media’s systematic omission of grassroots news that people could really use.

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