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Corporate Media Pushes Pointless Scandals To Ignite Right Wing Crazies
The corporate media is having a blast covering issues like the Planned Parenthood hearings, Benghazi, and Hillary Clinton’s emails, but there’s a problem – these are made-up scandals that only the most hardcore right winger actually believes are true. But that hasn’t stopped the corporate media from devoting countless hours to covering these issues, because its great for their ratings.
Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this with Eric Boehlert, a senior fellow at Media Matters for America.
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