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I believe Tramp used the National Enquirer as a source for someone's father being involved in the JFK assassination.
Yes, the accusation was that the Rafael Cruz (father of Trump's political opponent Ted Cruz) once cavorted with accused JFK assassin Lee Harvey Oswald and hence was complicit in JFK's assassination . . . or something like that.
Everyone knows that those tabloid papers are for entertainment not real news... well almost everybody.
The problem today is that people are to opinionated, uneducated or just plain lazy to seek out the facts themselves. How many voted for a candidate in the recent election because a celebrity endorsed them? How many get their news from social media and base their assumptions on sound bites and what someone might have tweeted on facebook?
People today get their news from many sources from CNN to FOX, NPR to Rush Limbaugh from the Late Show to TMZ.
Most news outlets are biased, skewed and bought so it is hard to know where the truth lies and it takes time, an open mind and a big filter to decipher the truth and form an educated opinion. Most don't care to bother or to take a second look. They just believe that Jon Benet was Elvis's Love child and she was abducted by aliens.
You mean the Incredible Frog Boy is just a fabrication?
Noooo!
As I stated multiple times in my postings, I am NOT concerned with innocuous stories that don't involve uncalled-for or unproven slander, character assassination, false accusations, et al that defame, demean, mislead, and otherwise adversely affect the body politic of our nation and of the world-at-large. Publications in the business of promoting fairy tales like the "Incredible Frog Boy" and their ilk are apparently looked upon by all persons (except the most extremely gullible amongst us) as being put forth for obvious entertainment, amusement, and titallation purposes. That is NOT what I am addressing in this thread I started.
As I stated multiple times in my postings, I am NOT concerned with innocuous stories that don't involve uncalled-for or unproven slander, character assassination, false accusations, et al that defame, demean, mislead, and otherwise adversely affect the body politic of our nation and of the world-at-large. Publications in the business of promoting fairy tales like the "Incredible Frog Boy" and their ilk are apparently looked upon by all persons (except the most extremely gullible amongst us) as being put forth for obvious entertainment, amusement, and titallation purposes. That is NOT what I am addressing in this thread I started.
OK, but when I saw "SUPERMARKET TABLOID INDUSTRY", the first thing that came to mind was the Incredible Frog Boy.
OK, but when I saw "SUPERMARKET TABLOID INDUSTRY", the first thing that came to mind was the Incredible Frog Boy.
I remember years ago (around 1982) that a supermarket tabloid's front page story was that "Adolf Hitler in alive and well, living in Argentina, being kept alive by sex hormone shots and other medical methods. And he masterminded the Falkland Islands invasion by the British in 1982 and the Israel-Lebanon crisis . . ." and so on and so on with other such incredible claims. Now how would they possible know all this to be true? Hitler gave them a person interview? And they video- and audio-recorded the entire interview and took photographs as well . . . ALL of which can be vetted and investigated for credibility? In short, everyone knows (or presumably knows . . . except for the feeble-minded in the population-at-large) that THIS particular kind of material is just put forth to captivate and titallate readers (to add some excitement to their otherwise-boring lives).
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