Mediaite Contributing Editor Larry O’Connor recently penned an opinion piece on Mediate.com. An excerpt of his latest article, WaPo Plays ‘Let’s Pretend’ In ‘What If Hillary Won?’ Fantasy Column, is below:
The Washington Post acknowledged the one year anniversary of the 2016 presidential election by offering readers an alternate timeline wherein Hillary Clinton did not end up wandering aimlessly in the woods of Chappaqua, drowning her sorrows in buckets of Chardonnay but, instead, won the election and ascended to her rightful place on her throne in the Oval Office as President of the United States.
The Style section article titled “What if Hillary had won? A jolly trip down memory lane, alternate-timeline edition” is clearly a witty exercise in satire and it is accompanied by a alternate reality newscast imagined by the creative minds at the Post.
It’s literally “Fake News” and you’d think the folks at the Post would be sensitive to even satirically crossing the border into that realm. So good on them for being so bold. [Read More]
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