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Episode 80: Media Matters CEO Angelo Carusone Gives Us a Masterclass in Misinformation

What the Hack

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What Happened With Glenn Beck?

I became convinced that it didn't really matter that what the media touched affected everything. What Glenn Beck was doing though was he was plucking conspiracies and false attacks from these communities. And turning them into mainstream narratives. He had bigger ratings at five o'clock than Bill O'Reilly, who was the king of cable news for over a decade.

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