Some argue that worries about “fake news” are just a pretext for imposing censorship or excluding consideration of non-leftist viewpoints. Is that all there is to the “war on fake news”? This and more on today’s show. See Program Notes, below, for all the stories, etc., I plan to discuss.
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Program Notes
New York Today: Remembering Pearl Harbor
The war on ‘fake news’ is all about censoring real news HT @CouldntBRighter on Twitter
Radical Capitalist Episode 74: The Media, Globalism, and Ayn Rand & God
The Sniff Test: Developing a Critical Nose for News HT Ben Bayer (the author 🙂 )
What is the source of this story and what do I know about it? HT Ben Bayer (the author 🙂 )
Did Google Just Commit ‘Fake News’? HT Stephanie Gutmann
How to Know What Donald Trump Really Cares About: Look at What He’s Insulting
Surprise! NSA data will soon routinely be used for domestic policing that has nothing to do with terrorism HT James Valliant
Lawmakers blast feds ‘unprecedented’ secrecy on refugee deal HT William Bush
Retired BB&T executive John Allison calls Trump meeting heady experience
House G.O.P. Signals Break With Trump Over Tariff Threat
Trump’s election stole my desire to look for a partner HT James Valliant
Victory for Teicholz in Battle of Butter HT @JeffreyYoung on Twitter
The United States Is Not an Apocalyptic Wasteland, Explains Steven Pinker HT Rob Abiera, Jeffrey Young
Amazon just launched a cashier-free convenience store HT Rob Abiera
Don't Let It Go 
Speaking about fake news, I meant to bring up the vast effort involving several hundred thousand people working on spreading Russian disinformation. In the link below to the video interview with James Woolsey starting at the 5 minute point he talks about how Russia gets its misinformation injected into western news sources.
http://video.foxnews.com/v/5225922569001/#sp=show-clips
Edward Snowden
Why Our Government Is Lying to You
(Public Lecture at McGill University) Nov 2 2016