USA Universities learn the consequences of disrespecting free speech

Razer rayzer at riseup.net
Sat Dec 3 21:21:42 PST 2016


On 12/03/2016 08:53 PM, Zenaan Harkness wrote:

> Thus it’s easy to see how Kellogg could make the mistake it has made in
> picking a fight with Breitbart and, by implication, all Americans on the right

The number of Americans who read Breitbart is microscopic.
The ones who actually believe it's analysis can't spell 'analysis'.

Rr

Ps. It was just noted that Donald Trump @WhiteHouseInc has interest in
many of the Fake News sites:

>
> Laura Ingraham, a close Trump ally currently under consideration to be
> Trump’s White House press secretary, owns an online publisher called
> Ingraham Media Group that runs a number of sites, including LifeZette,
> a news site that frequently posts articles of dubious veracity. One
> video produced by LifeZette this summer, ominously titled “Clinton
> Body Count,” promoted a conspiracy theory that the Clinton family had
> some role in the plane crash death of John F. Kennedy, Jr., as well as
> the deaths of various friends and Democrats.


> But LifeZette, for all its influence, pales in comparison to the sites
> run by Floyd Brown, a Republican consultant close to Trump’s inner
> circle of advisers. Brown gained notoriety nearly three decades ago
> for his role in helping to produce the “Willie Horton” campaign
> advertisement, a spot criticized for its use of racial messaging to
> derail Michael Dukakis’s presidential bid. Brown is also the political
> mentor of David Bossie, an operative who went to work for Trump’s
> presidential campaign this year after founding the Citizens United
> group. In an interview this year, Brown called Trump campaign manager
> Kellyanne Conway a “longtime friend.”
>
> Brown now produces a flow of reliably pro-Trump Internet content
> through a company he co-owns with his family called Liftable Media
> Inc., which operates a number of high-impact, tabloid-style news
> outlets that exploded in size over the course of the election. One of
> Brown’s sites, Western Journalism, is the 81st largest site in the
> U.S. with 13 million monthly unique monthly visitors, according to
> rankings maintained by the site Alexa. Another, called Conservative
> Tribune, is the 50th largest site with over 19 million monthly unique
> visitors. Liftable Media is run on a day to day basis by Brown’s son,
> Patrick, who is the president of Liftable Media.
>
>
> Brown’s sites churn out bombastic headlines with little regard to the
> truth. One viral piece shared by Brown’s news outlets claimed that
> President Obama had redesigned the White House logo to change the
> American flag to a white flag, “a common symbol for surrender, which
> has many people wondering if Obama was trying to secretly signal to
> America’s enemies that he was surrendering.” The Facebook post touted
> the article with the line, “We all know Obama hates the United States,
> but what he just did to the White House logo is beyond the pale.”


https://theintercept.com/2016/11/26/laura-ingraham-lifezette/
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