Is the epression “fake news” something the LMSM invented on November 9th?
this is the first FR article tagged with the contemporary notion of fake news that I could find (and also that I could recall offhand):
Renegade Facebook Employees Form Task Force To Battle Fake News
buzzfeed.com ^ | 11/14/16 | Sheera Frenkel
Posted on 11/14/2016, 3:53:35 PM by ColdOne
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3494201/posts
However, buzzfeed had an article about so called fake news on facebook as far back as oct. 20, 2016:
Hyperpartisan Facebook Pages Are Publishing False And Misleading Information At An Alarming Rate
A BuzzFeed News analysis found that three big right-wing Facebook pages published false or misleading information 38% of the time during the period analyzed, and three large left-wing pages did so in nearly 20% of posts.
posted on Oct. 20, 2016, at 10:47 a.m.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/craigsilverman/partisan-fb-pages-analysis?utm_term=.qaB4Wy7A1z#.fdByAdoX23
In turn, the buzzfeed article references an even earlier New York Times article:
Inside Facebook’s (Totally Insane, Unintentionally Gigantic, Hyperpartisan) Political-Media Machine
How a strange new class of media outlet has arisen to take over our news feeds.
By JOHN HERRMAN
AUG. 24, 2016
The “fake news” invented by democrat “experts”. When the whining is being done by “experts”, then you know it’s bs.
In a sane and knowledgeable world, “fake news” was known, esp. in the 1980’s, as Soviet “Disinformatzia” (Disinformation).
All of a sudden, the leftist US MSM has discovered “fake news” as though it was something completely new.
If you read and tabulate articles in the Wash. Post since Trump won the election, that concern “fears” by liberals, illegal immigrants, academics, “religious” leaders, the “media”, and millenials in basements, you will see the greatest smear and disinformation campaign against Trump and conservatives/values that I’ve seen in 45 years in journalism.
And the amount of Marxism thrown in under various disguises and degrees of ignorance is soaring to new levels.
Just read the Letters to the Editor each day and you will see this degree of ignorance on grand display. From false stories about the internment of West Coast Japanese (only) during WW2 to Trump’s businesses and now “cronyism” (he’s still a private citizen until Jan. 20th), the level of hysteria, hysterical reporting, hysterical delusions, and downright insane writing is off the charts.
Sigmund Freud would have to go see a psychiatrist himself if he read the Post for a few weeks.
It is “that” bad out there in liberal delusion land, and getting worse.
For the knowledgeable reader, the WP is a maddening mélange of political psychoses, Marxist BS, LSD dreams, and examples of the near total esmasculation of the American educational system.
Paging Dr. Freud: Your Uber Couch is waiting in Room 7.