Washington Post’s ‘Fake News’ Outlets Blacklist Smells of “McCarthyism” – Media Watchdog

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• Published on Dec 7, 2016
  Jim Naureckas of the media watchdog group Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) joins RT’s Ed Schultz to discuss The Washington Post’s recent “blacklist” of alternative media sites, which he calls an “amateurish collection of random websites” which includes groups “with no connection whatsoever to Russia,” and that The Washington Post’s publication of the list amounts to “McCarthyism,” as any criticisms of the US system appear to invite accusations of disinformation-peddling.

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