Fake News in the Trump Era: Deciphering What’s True in a ...

The Founding Fathers would privately fund newspapers in return for positive coverage of their political opinions from reporters, regardless of how the reporters actually felt (Morse, 2006, p. 846). The popularity of private funding only strengthened over time; by the end of the Civil War, 80 percent of the nation’s 4,000 periodical ... ................
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