The life and death of a manufactured news “story.”

The “Ground Zero Mosque” was clearly a manufactured “news” story. The proof is in the mindlessness and dishonesty of the story (It was barely a mosque and it wasn’t at ground zero and the story’s sudden unexplained death.

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Erich Vieth

Erich Vieth is an attorney focusing on civil rights (including First Amendment), consumer law litigation and appellate practice. At this website often writes about censorship, corporate news media corruption and cognitive science. He is also a working musician, artist and a writer, having founded Dangerous Intersection in 2006. Erich lives in St. Louis, Missouri with his two daughters.

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    Adam

    It was a story manufactured by the Right and pushed very hard by them, until being picked up by a lazy mainstream media that loves controversy…

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    Jim Razinha

    That it was manufactured wasn't news to me, but I did learn something from the article…I'm going to play with Google News tineline to see what comes up for a few of my favorite topics.

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    Jim Razinha

    Timeline…

    I wonder what a "tineline: would reveal – all the forks the the information road?

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