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The Infectious Myth: Still searching for Meredith McIver

May 15, 2017 • Audio and Podcasts, Extra/ordinary

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Editor’s Note: A lot of questions have surrounded the current administration, and back in September, Nolavie Contributor Brian Friedman traveled to New York City to lead a 2nd Line Parade that asked ‘Where Is (Melania Trump’s Plagiarizing Speechwriter) Meredith McIver?’

Well, it’s now May, and Brian Friedman is still in pursuit of the whether if the elite press wrote puff-pieces about a fake or incapacitated person. Journalist David Crowe interviewed Friedman for his podcast, ‘The Infectious Myth’, about the search for Meredith and what it means for journalism today:

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