Posted on 11/28/2017 2:55:25 PM PST by 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.
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So just who do they think they are, God?
They should be called PRO-ABORTION.
CNN = Cancerous Necrotic News
Fake news.
That must be incredibly painful for them.
President Trump has totally trashed their credibility. They cannot recover.
That photo cracks me up. Yeah, like she has the power to remove it.
We can safely replace the words “fake news” with CNN since they are synonyms.
In order for Fascists to succeed they must first do 2 things: Disarm the people and control the language/Media.
When people seek to do these two things, you know all you need to know about them.
TrumpTRUMP Trump Trump TRUMP !
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