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Dick Grayson and Walter Cronkite Versus Fake News (Nightwing Annual Spoilers)

It's Nightwing Versus Fake News in Nightwing Annual #1, out today. As fake feeds infect all known Gotham media…

Dick Grayson and Walter Cronkite Versus Fake News (Nightwing Annual Spoilers)

NIGHTWING ANNUAL #1
(W) Ben Percy (A/CA) Otto Schimdt
The smart city overhaul of Blüdhaven was just the beginning-a single battle in a larger cyberwar that Nightwing is only starting to understand. But now the story of the Dark Web organization begins to expand as Grayson travels to Gotham City and partners up with Vicki Vale. We live in an era of fake news, alternative facts, disinformation. The gatekeepers of truth can't be trusted anymore, and sometimes elections, businesses and even lives are at stake. Nightwing faces off against the first of three lieutenants in the army of the Dark Web: Vire, the psychic embodiment of malware who can unearth your darkest secrets.In Shops: Aug 29, 2018 SRP: $4.99

But Nightwing is not alone. As well as Batgirl on his side, sorting him out a mobile Batcave…

Dick Grayson and Walter Cronkite Versus Fake News (Nightwing Annual Spoilers)

…and a new Nightwing bike…

Dick Grayson and Walter Cronkite Versus Fake News (Nightwing Annual Spoilers)

Nightwing has another ally – The Truth. As represented by news presenter Walter Cronkite.

Dick Grayson and Walter Cronkite Versus Fake News (Nightwing Annual Spoilers)

CBS news anchor Walter Cronkite, of course, famously manipulated an interview with President Johnson, reshooting himself asking questions to give reactions he never gave during the interview, something you'd be fired for today. There were the Pan Am jollies around the world for him and his family that were never declared. And he narrated propaganda anti-communist films on screen for the Pentagon.

But as Nightwing's version seems to note, if the myth gets bigger than the man, print the myth….

 


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Rich JohnstonAbout Rich Johnston

Founder of Bleeding Cool. The longest-serving digital news reporter in the world, since 1992. Author of The Flying Friar, Holed Up, The Avengefuls, Doctor Who: Room With A Deja Vu, The Many Murders Of Miss Cranbourne, Chase Variant. Lives in South-West London, works from Blacks on Dean Street, shops at Piranha Comics. Father of two. Political cartoonist.
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