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“Our mission is to correct conservative misinformation whereever it occurs,” Matt Butler says in a Washington Post chat. “it just so happens that Fox is the largest producer. …There are plenty of people who hold conservative views who stay faithful to facts. Shepard Smith often gets it right and plays pretty fairly even.”
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