Friday, June 15, 2018

Did Fox Pickup Roseanne?


According to Factcheck.org's Angelo Fichera, Fox channel did not pick up the TV series after it had been dropped by it's former broadcaster, ABC. The Roseanne show had been canceled because of a racist tweet Roseanne Barr had made. The article states "That claim is at the heart of a satire story, by the writer Allan Ishac, that was spread on Facebook and considered by some users to be fact. It was originally published on the Medium.com-hosted Extra Newsfeed, but was picked up and re-posted elsewhere, including by a website called POTUS Press, which did not expressly identify it as satire." The idea was spread around to so many different times that the satire part must have been left out. Fake news, fake stories, it's similar to the old school telephone game you used to play as a kid. [1picture, 6 links, 1 quote, 144 words]

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