"These days, facts seem overmatched by falsehood, too slow to catch them, too weak to stop them.
Indeed, falsehoods are harder to kill than a Hollywood zombie. Run them through with fact, and still they shamble forward, fueled by echo chamber media, ideological tribalism, cognitive dissonance, a certain imperviousness to shame, and an understanding that a lie repeated long enough, loudly enough, becomes, in the minds of those who need to believe it, truth." --Leonard Pitts
The entire, great article here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/06/30/2876574_when-lies-triumph-over-facts-were.html#storylink=addthis#storylink=cpy
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