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March 30, 2006


Fakery, Hucksterism, and Puffery

When computers do the news, hoaxes slip in, by Randy Dotinga

Are “aggregators” like Google News providing the news - or are they diluting it with the fakery, hucksterism, and puffery that affects the rest of the Internet? … ‘The fundamental shift is that the media is no longer intermediating between the reader and the news source.’

Wouldn’t it be more correct to say the medium is no longer intermediating….?

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