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Back then, the law school had threatened to expel a student for taking part in a satirical fake-news blog about life in law school.
Adam Kissel: Syracuse Expels Education Student for Criticizing Racial Comment on Facebook, Then Folds Under Public Scrutiny Adam Kissel 2012
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Back then, the law school had threatened to expel a student for taking part in a satirical fake-news blog about life in law school.
Adam Kissel: Syracuse Expels Education Student for Criticizing Racial Comment on Facebook, Then Folds Under Public Scrutiny Adam Kissel 2012
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Washington, D.C., was the scene of a devastating satirical attack this morning, as a tweet from The Onion, the well-known fake-news site, intersected with the most humorless residents of the most self-absorbed city in the world, touching off a tsunami of ultra-seriousness.
Beltway Media Slain By Satire The Huffington Post News Team 2011
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Cheers to Norm MacDonald for getting back where he belongs: behind a fake-news desk.
Cheers & Jeers: Norm MacDonald Shoots and Scores on Sports Show 2011
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Chief executive sparred with chief fake-news comedian over the velocity of change Wednesday evening, separated only by a desk designed like a slice of the Capitol dome -- and by a gap in perception over the accomplishments of the Obama administration in its first 21 months.
Jon Stewart, President Obama debate on 'The Daily Show' Dan Zak 2010
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The fake concern for the country actually masks how sad these saboteurs are that only fake-news now seeks them out for interviews and propaganda spreading.
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Not only would the fake-news be heartbreaking, it could turn the massive music fest into the next Jonestown.
Andrea Chalupa: 10 Places Not to Yell: "Thom Yorke Is Retiring" (He's Not) 2009
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The Onion, a satirical fake-news website that has offered up a lot of smirks and giggles if not outright belly laughs, is launching an online version of its pseudo-newspaper format, a news program with an anchor Michele Ammon, an actress who plays the newsreader Jean Anne Wharton, pictured at left.
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Now as Gustav skirts the coast, refusing to unleash the spectacular calamity upon which your cynical, fake-news humanitarianism depends, you ask us to believe that you care about our safety and the weather.
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It not only has the White House propaganda operation at its disposal, but also an intricate network of P.R. outfits and fake-news outlets that are far more effective than their often hapless liberal counterparts.
January 2006 2006
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