On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 12:06:24 -1000, Peter Besenbruch said: > Actually, some of them are. Some may be as air headed, but Fox has as > its mission to promote a Republican, right wing agenda. Fox makes no > secret of it; it's what they do; it's why they exist. I think that's > what Valdis had in mind with his comment. It's not exactly > disinformation, when you know up front that an organization is lying, > but I don't think he was using a strict definition of "disinformation." Exactly. If it's less disinformation if you know they're lying, is it more disinformation when a large percentage of the population actually believes hear and soul that the organization is telling the truth? (Yes, people in the US will believe the strangest things - apparently 25% of us actually believe that Adam and Eve rode out of the Garden of Eden on a dinosaur - as literal fact.)
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