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14 December 2019

9:00 AM

14 December 2019

9:00 AM

Fake news outs itself

Credibility used to matter to the media, but in these days of fake news and media bubbles, maybe not so much anymore. Facts? Who cares! It’s all entertainment now.

How else to explain an hilarious case in which left-leaning US TV network MSNBC is saying its own top-ranked news anchor doesn’t mean what she says?

Rachel Maddow is a household name in the States, her namesake show generally in the top three cable news and opinion shows and occasionally knocking Fox News’s Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson from their No 1 and 2 perches.

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