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Gossip as News in Presidential Politics
How the Drudge Report, With Its Condoleezza Rice ‘Scoop,’ Again Rules the Media by Lauren Ashburn The Daily Beast July 15, 2012 His Condi Rice item went viral despite its utter implausibility. Lauren...
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The True Story Behind Operation Argo
Submitted by Peter Markus: The True Story Behind Operation ‘Argo’ to Rescue Americans From Iran by Antonio Mendez, Matt Baglio The Daily Beast September 17, 2012 The true story behind the new movie...
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Concealed Covert Advertising: The New Content
Media literacy alert! This article about covert advertising does exactly what it talks about. It masquerades as content while advertising products… When advertising becomes content, who wins —...
View ArticleFederal Whistleblowers Profiled in New James Spione Film SILENCED
SILENCED Kickstarter campaign: Only 6 days to go and the producers are within $2,000 of their goal to raise funding for post-production. Telling the truth becomes a dangerous act when four federal...
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Viral Trayvon Martin Photo is a Hoax
Snopes.com reveals that the photo circulating of the supposed “real” Trayvon Martin is not the real Trayvon Martin at all. A twitchy.com post claiming media bias in the treatment of Travyon Martin,...
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Ask the Fiddler #9: Obamacare Spawns a Slew of Scams
Editor’s Note: Ask The Fiddler is a lifestyle advice column that aims to remedy more chaos and confusion than it creates. Questions may be submitted to us here at Art of the Prank, and good luck. Dear...
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Political Facades
Russia: Fake facades on unkempt homes ‘to impress Putin’ BBC News…as found by BBC Monitoring 26 November 2013 A Russian city has wrapped its dilapidated buildings in fake facades ahead of a planned...
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CEO Prankster Deceives Walmart Shoppers
CEO Pulls Bogus Stunt In Attempt To Discredit Walmart Workers Huffington Post December 17, 2013 Walmart usually speaks for itself just fine. But that hasn’t stopped a wealthy Wall Streeter from taking...
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Ask The Fiddler #21: Ducking the Political Wrecking Ball
Editor’s Note: Ask The Fiddler is a lifestyle advice column that aims to remedy more chaos and confusion than it creates. Questions may be submitted to us here at Art of the Prank, and good luck. Dear...
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Inside James O’Keefe’s Latest Hollywood Hit Job
Inside a Hollywood Hit Job: How Sting Artist James O’Keefe Tried to Set His Latest Trap – And Got Stung Himself U.S. News May 22, 2014 On Wednesday, conservative activist and controversial video sting...
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The Credibility Crisis: Who do you believe? Me or your lying eyes?
A must-read recommendation from Joey Skaggs: Don’t miss Adrian Chen’s article, The Agency, in The New York Times, June 2, 2015 Wag the Dog, online and updated David Strom’s Web Informant June 3, 2015...
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Non-profit that entrapped Planned Parenthood in supposed “fetus selling”...
Update, August 1, 2015: A Los Angeles judge has placed a temporary injunction on the Center for Medical Progress, stopping them from issuing any further anti-Planned Parenthood videos they may have...
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The Big Lie Continues…
It’s clear that if you say anything loud enough and often enough, people who want to believe you will believe you… whether or not it’s true. The Big Lie propaganda technique is a tried and true tactic....
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Let’s Bomb Agrabah!
A significant portion of the American voting public, particularly from the Republican ranks and particularly among Donald Trump fans, are at least somewhat in favor of bombing Agrabah. “People Want to...
View ArticleRT News Report: What If We Make a Video and Show ‘Em How Everything Really...
The highly controversial Russian news network RT (f/k/a and a/k/a Russia Today) pokes a little fun on its own ruble. Clever, but all propaganda none-the-less… as always. RT exposed in leaked video:...
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When Dogs Ruled the World
The Hypocrisy of Democracy (or When the Glue Comes Undone) by Joey Skaggs As an artist, satirist and activist, I am very fortunate that I live in America. My freedom is never taken for granted and I...
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James O’Keefe’s Phone Prank Fail (and the Rise of the Professional Political...
Starting with an astounding botched sting operation from James “ACORN Pimp” O’Keefe and his team Project Veritas, The New Yorker goes in depth exploring the status of American political dirty tricks in...
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Can Snopes Keep Up with the BS?
Our friends Barbara and David Mikkelson have been separating facts from fakes since 1995, when the internet looked like it might be a fad. Their immensely popular and credible argument-settling website...
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Uncle Sam’s Imaginary Pen Pal
Gizmodo’s Paleofuture blog examines the canon of opinion writer Guy Sims Fitch, a prolific non-existent writer for the United States Information Agency. “Meet Guy Sims Fitch, a Fake Writer Invented by...
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Fake Newspaper Endorses Reality TV Politician
Republican Presidential nominee Donald J. Trump may have his “personal Pravda,” but everyone from The New York Times to the Arizona Republic has endorsed his opponent, and the media at large have taken...
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