Fake news
American consumers of conservative media like Fox News distrust climate scientists and don't believe the planet is warming A new study published in the journal Public Understanding of Science (PDF available here) surveyed a nationally representative sample of over 1,000 Americans in 2008 and 2011 about their media consumption and beliefs about climate change.
Emi Kolawole
Note that Sarah Palin, the well-known far-right martyr, did not step forward herself to correct the record, but let the fantasy stalker story stand as fact because it was to her political advantage to sustain popular belief that an evil liberal was stalking her.
" ...Television is doing our thinking for us, and 'people medicate themselves into bliss' ... by believing any.
"The agency actually did make a video purporting to show Osama bin Laden and his cronies sitting around a campfire swigging bottles of liquor and savoring their conquests with boys," a CIA officer recalled .
Alex Constantine
The writing seemed to be on the wall, but on August 9, the AP released an odd little story about the American occupation of Iraq, claiming that Bush's critics have been backed off by recent reports of military "progress": "There have been signs of changes in attitudes, some on the ground in Iraq, some in the United States.