I left the country for a 4 year deployment. When I returned the bias was glaring. Once you see it you realize the evening news is propaganda from beginning to end. It turned me from a slightly left Democrat into a “farther right than Rush Limbaugh” in weeks. I was (and still am) furious.
The “Fake News” term arose with major media trying to control the flow of informations. Once it was advanced, it was so obviously applicable to the MSM that it boomeranged and began to be applied to main stream media obvious propagandizing.
The propagandizing came about because the media saw the administration of Obama and the candidacy of Clinton as a double failure with a sea-cahnge about to occur in voting and in a larger sense, the culture. The panic hit them and left leanings and prejudices became advocacy and weaponizing of those that relied upon their world view.
The public revulsion toward Fake News from the MSN became worse as they actually tried to control the election and the culture. Public perception was that it was manageable to read and listen through general bias but not acceptable to put up with organized bias meant to subvert the election and the weaponization of all information flow.
Obama administration legal and intelligence staff was likewise mobilized by the progressive forces seeing the public mood. They went to war against the people in general. The blatantly biased in political and administrative roles began to act out their control fantasies. Cabals, secret schemes, and criminal frame-ups went into action. The public saw this all and those on the battle lines began to mount a counter attack.