Posted on 12/10/2016 8:25:59 AM PST by bobsunshine
THE PHRASE “FAKE NEWS” has exploded in usage since the election, but the term is similar to other malleable political labels such as “terrorism” and “hate speech”; because the phrase lacks any clear definition, it is essentially useless except as an instrument of propaganda and censorship. The most important fact to realize about this new term: those who most loudly denounce Fake News are typically those most aggressively disseminating it.
One of the most egregious examples was the recent Washington Post article hyping a new anonymous group and its disgusting blacklist of supposedly pro-Russia news outlets – a shameful article mindlessly spread by countless journalists who love to decry Fake News, despite the Post article itself being centrally based on Fake News. (The Post this week finally added a lame editor’s note acknowledging these critiques; the Post editors absurdly claimed that they did not mean to “vouch for the validity” of the blacklist even though the article’s key claims were based on doing exactly that).
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
A quick look at a real “Sausage Party”.
Recall when she called out at one of the debates, FACT CHECK, wanting President Elect Trumps remarks fact checked.
And at one debate she said her foundation gave 90% for charities. If that was fact checked, you would find out her foundation gave about 5.75%.
Deplorable’s have good memory!
...Likewise, an Obama Fan Manufactured Fake News that Michael Brown had his hands upand was killed while trying to disarm a policeman, and started the “Hands up,dont shoot” lie that MSM Personalities Spread to Discredit Police nationwide.
Ping.
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