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Industrial Strength Astroturf
bellatrys
Sep 24, 2008 11:44
via dKossack
Morgan Sandlin
, an account in Salon by a Dutch reporter in the tradition of Nellie Bly,
who went undercover with the McCain campaign and was assigned to write glurgy astroturf fictions to be forwarded around as genuine letters from ordinary Americans that would be sent in to newspapers in order to sway public sentiment by peer pressure
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