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This was on the evening before the inauguration. Koppel and his hair came on and portentously began by asking whether the belief expressed "on the internet" that the election was stolen had any justification. He cherry-picked part of a single reply to a single post on DU which had language like "Stallinesque" so as to impress his audience with how extreme we are but left out all the actual evidence which was also alluded to elsewhere in the same post. (He did not acknowledge that the post was from DU.)
So that was his strategy to smear "internet" reliability - ask the question and then make noise that seems to answer that indeed, it would be silly to trust anything outside the oh-so-reliable corporate media. A self-serving, misleading distortion all around.
I'm betting this story wanted to play down rumors of corporate media unreliability. The stories about Bush-bought jouralists had gotten some play, and other rumors have been floating around. They're trying to dispel that - it's bad for their business.
It's fascinating, though, as the Nightline internet story choice was - sounds like they're aware that not everyone is totally brainwashed all the time. I hope someone who saw the whole thing or a followup can add more about the framing of your "tickle."
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