Posted on 11/28/2017 10:41:55 AM PST by blam
CNN is now pushing an effort to “ban the term fake news” after the slogan became synonymous with CNN itself thanks to President Donald Trump.
In a CNN opinion piece written by Hossein Derakhshan and Claire Wardle, who are affiliated with the globalist Council of Europe, the authors argue that the term “fake news” has “become meaningless” and lost its power because politicians (primarily Donald Trump) have hijacked it as a way to “undermine” the media establishment.
The authors decry the fact that many people now believe the mainstream media peddles “fabricated stories” and that information monopolies are being challenged by the ability for “anyone in the world” to have a platform.
"Remember when the mainstream media & the Hillary campaign invented the term "fake news" in an effort to discredit alternative & right of center media outlets?"
Complaining that “less powerful agents can harm large institutions or established individuals,” Derakhshan and Wardle warn that trust in institutions is declining and that only through intervention at the level of “public education” (ie indoctrination) can this be reversed.
Of course, the real reason media elites want to clamp down on the term “fake news” is because its original intention, to smear and discredit opponents of Hillary Clinton, right of center media outlets, and people who distrust the mainstream media, has completely backfired.
This was illustrated yet again by Donald Trump’s tweet earlier today when he suggested that a “fake news trophy” should be awarded to the network that has been responsible for the most inaccurate reporting.
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I prefer it more if we ban cnn.
We have freedom of speech and truth is a defense to a defamation claim. CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NBC, The New York Times, The Washington Post, along with many other Leftist outlets, are FAKE NEWS.
If we ban the word “hunger”, would that fill people’s bellies?
Ban CNN! Fake news is, as we’re aware, fake news! And, CNN pushes it!
LOL, liberals propigated the term “fake news” trying to silence conservative news outlets.
Instead, people realized the truth and the term “fake news” has appropriately stuck to the main stream media.
Mission accomplished
“Ban” it how? Try to stop PDJT from using the term? Stop using it themselves? Bleep the audio when PDJT uses it? Get Facebook and Twitter to forbid it?
Please, do ban the term. I assure you it will go away and never be used again by anybody, including PDJT, who will issue an executive order forbidding the term in his administration.
I promise.
If it weren’t for that pesky old First Amendment......
Fake News by any other name would still smell.....
OK, “News that is completely untrue”
If I was Fake News I’d want to ban the term fake news too.
Who watches CNN?
Loved the way Trump embraced and then encompassed the Dems with it. It nullified the projection progressives so often use to demoralize conservatives and turned it into a rallying cry.
Basket of deplorables became a liability for Hillary and Fake News has been pinned on all the Trump hating media.
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