Here’s another crowd-sourced problem with which our readers can wrestle. Everywhere I look, I see the exact same news about how David Brock (Media Matters and a million other well-funded Left-wing Projects) created a network of at least 51 fake news sites that ape left-wing stories in swing states.
Hello, New Hampshire!
A network of at least 51 locally branded news sites has popped up since last year under names like the Milwaukee Metro Times, the Mecklenburg Herald, and the Tri-City Record. The sites are focused on key swing states with elections in 2021 and 2022: Arizona, Colorado, Georgia, Michigan, New Hampshire, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin. …
Each follows a similar template: aggregated local news content and short write-ups about local sports teams and attractions — interspersed with heavily slanted political news aimed at boosting Democratic midterm candidates and attacking Republican opponents.
Seacoast Current.com? The NH Bulletin? The Concord Sentinel? None of the above, as far as I can tell (so far). But they are here, somewhere, and I’d like to know who they are and under what name they are doing business.
Brock’s Dem-Money laundromat powers them with content generated by the American Independent, a progressive news source that bills itself a number one resource, though it has very little actual traffic. That might be because the news is written to end up on local sites in swing states.
It’s not local, but it is peddled as that, surrounded by local sports or special interest stories.
Political stories about how gas prices, electricity prices, or the economy are not that bad. It’s all spin to scavenge mid-term scraps for floundering Dems. Like any of Maggie Hassan’s campaign ads. BS that leaves out details that would undermine the message.
If you know what site it is or have a suggestion, please let us know (and don’t say the Concord Monitor, Keene Sentinel, Portsmouth Herald, Union Leader, etc., we know about them).
I sifted through dozens of stories, and not one of them had a complete list of these 51 fake-news sites. I hate when that happens.
