{"id":1984,"date":"2019-12-27T13:52:41","date_gmt":"2019-12-27T13:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=1984"},"modified":"2019-12-27T13:52:41","modified_gmt":"2019-12-27T13:52:41","slug":"nbc-news-chuck-todd-admits-he-was-naive-about-gops-misinformation-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=1984","title":{"rendered":"NBC News\u2019 Chuck Todd Admits He Was \u2018Naive\u2019 About GOP\u2019s \u2018Misinformation\u2019 Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> \u201cThree years after Kellyanne Conway introduced the doctrine of \u2018alternative facts\u2019 on his own program, a light went on for Chuck Todd,\u201d Jay Rosen wrote. \u201cRepublican strategy, he now realized, was to make stuff up, spread it on social media, repeat it in your answers to journalists \u2014 even when you know it\u2019s a lie with crumbs of truth mixed in \u2014 and then convert whatever controversy arises into go-get-em points with the base, while pocketing for the party a juicy dividend: additional mistrust of the news media to help insulate President Trump among loyalists when his increasingly brazen actions are reported as news.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/nbc-news-chuck-todd-admits-214217203.html <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThree years after Kellyanne Conway introduced the doctrine of \u2018alternative facts\u2019 on his own program, a light went on for Chuck Todd,\u201d Jay Rosen wrote. \u201cRepublican strategy, he now realized, was to make stuff up, spread it on social media, repeat it in your answers to journalists \u2014 even when you know it\u2019s a lie with crumbs of truth mixed in \u2014 and then convert whatever controversy arises into go-get-em points with the base, while pocketing for the party a juicy dividend: additional mistrust of the news media to help insulate President Trump among loyalists when his increasingly brazen actions are reported as news.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[139,137,135,129,132,136,11,131,138,134,130,133],"class_list":["post-1984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-chuck-todd","tag-delegitimize","tag-falsehoods","tag-gop","tag-lies","tag-media","tag-news","tag-party","tag-press","tag-propaganda","tag-republican","tag-strategy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1984"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1985,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1984\/revisions\/1985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}