Unfortunately, we have been there for a very long time, and the New York Times has been in the forefront since the beginning:
“Any report of a famine in Russia is today an exaggeration or malignant propaganda. There is no actual starvation or deaths from starvation"
-- Walter Duranty, New York Times writer, for which he received a Pulitzer Prize. The Times has never repudiated his work.
The Washington Post, through its weekly newsrag, Newsweek claimed that Elizabeth Bentley was a fantasist. The New Yorker ridiculed her naming her the "Nutmeg Mata Hari." Despite the fact that her evidence broke three different Soviet spy networks, including the Silvermaster Group, despite its corroboration by Whittaker Chambers, despite its support by the FBI, and despite the fact that she identified several previously unknown code names in Venona, none of these publications has ever retracted their mischaracterization of Bentley, and for those of you who think Internet media is superior, Wikipedia continues to fraudulently maintain that her claims are "controversial."
NO. They aren't.
These are just a couple of examples. Anyone who thinks that The New York Times or any of the "mainstream" newspapers or news magazines or TV media have ever been anything but fiction is a fool.
MRC has been documenting their omissions, misdirection, and outright lies for decades. As soon as there was an American Left, there was a fake news media to support it.
The current brouhaha over "fake news" is nothing more than attempt by thoroughly discredited leftwing chatterboxes to distract from the blatant and disgusting lies they told during the most recent presidential campaign, as if they're superior. Those of us who weren't born yesterday know how their effluent ebbs and flows in every season and inevitably reaches a tidal wave of pure horse manure in the final days of every presidential year.
Bravo!
Excellent post.
“Fake news” is the post-election pivot by the leftist media to create a crisis from which they can justify censorship.
The ‘fake news’ will be Free Republic, Daily Caller, Fox News, Breitbart, etc.
They will ax content from Facebook and Google searches. Down the 1984 wormhole.
Non-news is fake news is non-speech is hate speech. Ban anything we disagree with and make the leftist echo chamber even larger.
Rather than recognize they’ve lost the middle class (rust belt Michigan, Ohio, etc.) and have beomce a niche party of small disgruntled groups, they’ve instead chosen to take tighter control over the media.
They’ll also move to judicial solutions. EVERY Trump move will be challenged in courts and leftist judges who rubberstamped Obama will suddenly find Trump as POTUS has violated the Constitution if he tries to fulfill any of his agenda.
Leftists who applauded ‘get in the back of the bus’ and ruling by presidential fiat, will praise the wonderful restraint on power overreaches provided by the judicial branch.