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To: longnshort who wrote (986598)

12/10/2016 10:55:02 AM

From: FJB

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Trump is turning the GOP into the Workers’ party
New York Post, by Rich Lowry

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Posted By: garnet, 12/10/2016 10:31:33 AM

In the course of a couple of tweets, Donald Trump may have ended the image of the GOP as the party of corporate America. After striking a Carrier deal to preserve about 800 jobs, the president-elect slapped the Indiana company Rexnord on Twitter for “rather viciously firing” its workers and then went after Boeing for ripping off the public on a $3 billion Air Force One deal. Just like that, and in less than 280 characters, Trump had established more distance from big business than the GOP had in a generation. In his frenetic way, he’s forcing a reorientation of the Republican ...

To: longnshort who wrote (986598)

12/10/2016 10:56:52 AM

From: FJB

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Washington Post on the ‘Fake News’ Hot Seat
(Using Fake News to Push Fake News Propaganda)

Daily Beast, by Lloyd Grove

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Posted By: garnet, 12/10/2016 10:35:15 AM

The Washington Post—whose coverage of Watergate four decades ago angered the powers that be, toppled a president, and defined courageous journalism—has unleashed a hornet’s nest of a different sort, one unlikely to earn a Pulitzer Prize. Indeed, Washington’s newspaper of record—which was purchased in 2013 by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos from the storied Graham family—is uncomfortably weathering a barrage of criticism from fellow journalists and others for a front-page story published over the Thanksgiving holiday. The story, by Post technology reporter Craig Timberg and published Nov. 24, purported to reveal how “sophisticated” Russian propagandists had spread fake news through hundreds of web ...