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In the 1980s you had the homeless fraud perpetrated by the media and celebrities in order to turn public opinion against Ronald Reagan. There was also the broader agenda of attacking capitalism and calling for more government control of the economy and more social spending.CBS was the worst offender but all three major networks pounded the homeless story regularly for a decade. For an entire decade homelessness and their companion fraud Vietnam vet homelessness was 12% of the network news!So did it work? No Reagan was reelected in one of the biggest landslides ever in 84 and his VP won in a landslide in 88. That forced the democrat party to move to the center and develop a southern strategy to win the White house back in 92.
In the 1980s you had the homeless fraud perpetrated by the media and celebrities in order to turn public opinion against Ronald Reagan. There was also the broader agenda of attacking capitalism and calling for more government control of the economy and more social spending.
CBS was the worst offender but all three major networks pounded the homeless story regularly for a decade. For an entire decade homelessness and their companion fraud Vietnam vet homelessness was 12% of the network news!
So did it work? No Reagan was reelected in one of the biggest landslides ever in 84 and his VP won in a landslide in 88. That forced the democrat party to move to the center and develop a southern strategy to win the White house back in 92.
