Liberal CNN publishes column asking to ban the term ‘fake news’

foxnews.com ^ | 11/28/17 | Brian Flood

[ColdOne]

In an opinion piece on the cable news network's website Sunday, writers Hossein Derakhshan and Claire Wardle called for scrapping the term President Trump has made synonymous with CNN. The duo wrote that use of the term “fake news” is “not only self-defeating, it oversimplifies a very complex problem” and it devalues the expression that has “become meaningless” over the past year.

The phrase is now “used to describe any piece of information that someone else didn't like” and has been “has become weaponized by politician,” Derakhshan and Wardle wrote, adding the term should be used when referring to clearly false content such as the viral photo of a shark swimming up a Texas highway during Hurricane Harvey (spoiler alert: the photo wasn’t real).

Derakhshan and Wardle recently co-authored a report, "Information Disorder," which was commissioned by the Council of Europe. They claim the problem exists all over the world, but most Americans likely associate “fake news” with CNN, thanks to President Trump's relentless branding.

[Vinnie]

Yeah, I remember the libs using the term first.
Then Pres. Trump showed us the correct usage.
Kinda boomeranged on them. Ha ha.

[timestax]

[PAR35]

More fake news from CNN.

[IronJack]

the term should be used when referring to clearly false content

It is.

[moovova]

That is THE best!

[Conserv]

Sorry, CNN, that’s going on your tombstone.

[Bigg Red]

The phrase is now “used to describe any piece of information that someone else didn’t like” ....

***
Uh, no. Lying again, as usual.

[timestax]

[hal ogen]

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[Bigg Red]

Soon, I hope.

[Disestablishmentarian]

In other news, CNN has filed for trademark and copyright protection on their brand: “FAKE NEWS.”

[Hardastarboard]

Let them pry it from my cold, dead lips.

[Chode]

[Doctor Freeze]

Trump jujitsu wins again. Liberals tied in knots.

[Slyfox]

Sorry no can do ... it is already in the Urban Dictionary:

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=fake%20news

[E. Pluribus Unum]

They had their own smear shoved up their Wahoo orifice and they want it to stop!

[Slyfox]

Yeah and Beyonce wants this photo of her removed from the Internet:

[EQAndyBuzz]

“Those who define the language control the people.”

That is why the libs call it pro-choice and call us pro-life. In reality, we are all pro-choice, but some of us choose life and some choose death. We need to tie that around their necks.

[SoFloFreeper]

Those liberal journalists sure are lovers of the First Amendment....

[Fido969]

Yikes.

That’s a MAN, bay-bee.