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Micheal on FB Live: How the Election Turned into a Reality Show

Posted November 01, 2016
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This week, Michael published a piece about how the US election has basically been one big reality show.  In this video, Michael developes the idea further and explains why the media is probably to blame for all this craziness this year.

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