How Counter-Narratives Emerge

[Dill]

(07-12-2017, 07:41 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: The uranium thing has been thoroughly debunked. The fact that the White House is still pushing this story is just asinine.

Hannity continues to repeat it though, with a laundry list of other Clinton crimes.

This raises the question of audiences. He obviously gets no negative blowback from keeping debunked stories alive. E.g., he still maintains there was a "stand down order" at Benghazi. And he uses the term "fake news" more frequently than Trump.

Listening to him this week, and watching the press briefings, I am struck by the common talking points. It seems like Hannity had them first.

So I find these briefing surreal. The Press knows Huckabee is lying or disinforming and deflecting in statement after statement. But in terms of overall effect, that does not matter because the target audience is hearing the "truth" they want to believe.


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