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i saw a fake student who shouted something in teaparty and then when challenged as to his identity refused to answer the question----which almost anyone who was in such a situation would do. and had he answered the question the situation would not have escalated. but the point of this nitwit charade lay elsewhere: in the use of the special language of teaparty, it sets up an identification between conservative viewers and the "student" which is then given "content" through the sophomoric use of text and rudimentary editing.
the clip made no pretense to journalism. i'm not sure why the topic of journalistic ethics comes up in relation to it.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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