Posted on 01/09/2017 12:33:21 PM PST by PJ-Comix
Fake news. It was the term enthusiastically embraced by the mainstream media in the wake of the general election as an excuse to explain why Hillary Clinton lost. Unfortunately, that same term quickly boomeranged on them since skeptics pointed out that the MSM has used massive doses of fake news over the years to promote liberal causes including Hillary's career. And now that the "fake news" term has turned toxic for the left, they want to drop it entirely.
Case in point is Sunday's complaint by Washington Post media columnist Margaret Sullivan. She is so upset that the term is being used to point out the fake news promulgated by the MSM that she now wants to scrap the term as she explains in her column title: Its time to retire the tainted term fake news.
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Even better.
Anyone with any direct experience with the press knows that they have been faking news since the very first newspaper centuries ago. With the alt-media they can’t get away with it any more.
Hearst’s Spanish-American War. Cronkites “Tet Offensive is a US loss.” These are prime examples. They inflate numbers religiously and withhold vital information as a normal course of action. That they ever tried to use Fake News as an assault on the alt-media in the first place shows how stupid they are.
Looks like WaPos readers arent buying many of their lies anymore.
I guarantee that for ever person who associates the term "fake news" with Breitbart or the Alt Right, a dozen immediately think of ABCNNBCBS, the NY Times, and the Washington Post.
Fake news is an awesome meme. I promoted the heck out of it. We’ll use it to drive a stake through the heart of the lying, dishonest press in this country.
Translation:
The meme we were trying so hard to establish backfired upon us. We must find a replacement stat.
LOL - for once we can thanks the Mainstream Media. We called it ‘biased reporting’ and other dull terms. But they came up with Fake News, and that’s MUCH BETTER, and it’s not going away!
Reminds me of Common Core. From what I can tell, all the crap we hate about Common Core was already in the classrooms, but we didn’t have a universal term for it. Thanks to the leftists, WE DO NOW!!
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