Fox putting its fake-news expertise to work

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As if there were any line left between art and commerce, Fox is dispatching fake news vans to promote its new Kelsey Grammer sitcom, Back to You, about a pair of news anchors at a local TV station. Leftie wags would accuse the real Fox News of being largely fake, but I’d never stoop so low. The promo vans will cruise Boston, Chicago, New York and Los Angeles over Labor Day weekend, and actors wearing news blazers will dispense pens and other freebies.

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