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Washington Post Media Columnist Now Wants to Retire 'Fake News' Term
NewsBusters ^ | January 9, 2017 | P.J. Gladnick

Posted on 01/09/2017 12:33:21 PM PST by PJ-Comix

Fake news. It was the term enthusiastically embraced by the mainstream media in the wake of the general election as an excuse to explain why Hillary Clinton lost. Unfortunately, that same term quickly boomeranged on them since skeptics pointed out that the MSM has used massive doses of fake news over the years to promote liberal causes including Hillary's career. And now that the "fake news" term has turned toxic for the left, they want to drop it entirely.

Case in point is Sunday's complaint by Washington Post media columnist Margaret Sullivan. She is so upset that the term is being used to point out the fake news promulgated by the MSM that she now wants to scrap the term as she explains in her column title: It’s time to retire the tainted term ‘fake news’.

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: fakenews; washingtonpost
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"Fake news." The term that spun around and bit the MSM on their butts.
1 posted on 01/09/2017 12:33:21 PM PST by PJ-Comix
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Yup. Let’s go back to calling these liars who really are: the LYING LEFTIST MEDIA.


2 posted on 01/09/2017 12:35:17 PM PST by Jim W N
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This is what the left does — they ram through changes in vocabulary whenever people catch on that the current terminology makes the Left look bad.


3 posted on 01/09/2017 12:35:23 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (Abortion is what slavery was: immoral but not illegal. Not yet.)
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I don’t blame them.

If we’re labeling fake news, the W.P. will suffer as much as anyone else, and more than 95% of them.


4 posted on 01/09/2017 12:35:35 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Recall John McCain. NOW, before he gets us in WWIII.)
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It’s too late to go back to fooling the public like they have for half a century.

The genie is out of the bottle.


5 posted on 01/09/2017 12:37:15 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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Specifics is what the left struggles with. They are the lying fakers.


6 posted on 01/09/2017 12:37:37 PM PST by VermithraxPejorative
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Washington Post media columnist Margaret Sullivan
..fake columnist


7 posted on 01/09/2017 12:37:47 PM PST by Doogle (( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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“Fake news.” The term that spun around and bit the MSM on their butts.

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For real. If it weren’t for the MSM, we would never have known what Fake News was.

(As they still report Climate Change and crap like that)


8 posted on 01/09/2017 12:37:48 PM PST by Responsibility2nd
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The toothpaste is out of the tube, and we like and own that toothpaste.

and we are going to use it all the time.


9 posted on 01/09/2017 12:38:43 PM PST by gaijin
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Bwahahahaha.... proof positive that they lost control of the narrative.


10 posted on 01/09/2017 12:39:24 PM PST by Obadiah
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No, but thanks for asking!


11 posted on 01/09/2017 12:39:29 PM PST by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
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Ha, instead of “the left” now, I call them all the ‘Alt Left’ and label just about everything they say and write as ‘fake news’ and it works for me, since they own a large majority of the media, they are the most bothered and affected by it.


12 posted on 01/09/2017 12:40:07 PM PST by corlorde (11B3P)
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Finally, the concept of “projection” bites them. They always accuse us of doing the bad stuff that is really being done by them. They accused us of Fake News. Now the public catches on and recognizes that the accusers were the real perpetrators.


13 posted on 01/09/2017 12:40:09 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (Abortion is what slavery was: immoral but not illegal. Not yet.)
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14 posted on 01/09/2017 12:40:34 PM PST by SparkyBass
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She is so upset that the term is being used...

All I can say to her is...SUCKITUPBUTTERCUP

15 posted on 01/09/2017 12:41:25 PM PST by GoldenPup
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Fake News is only eight letters and in this case its a much better term.
Because they just make stuff up about everything even when there is no politics involved.

Let them be mocked and castigated until they are unviable not just as a political tool but as an institution. They embraced the principle of personal destruction, now let them experience it.


16 posted on 01/09/2017 12:42:53 PM PST by MrEdd (MrEdd)
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The MSM lost credibility with the average American when during the election campaign its news coverage was so obviously biased and pro Clinton. The people no longer trust what they say or fail to say.


17 posted on 01/09/2017 12:46:20 PM PST by allendale
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OK.


18 posted on 01/09/2017 12:46:34 PM PST by Jim W N
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Fake News, DNC talking points, bias reporting or propaganda.. You decide.


19 posted on 01/09/2017 12:48:47 PM PST by Leep (Stronger without her!)
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LYING LEFTIST MEDIOTS, who create Fake News and demand that we believe their fake news is reality.


20 posted on 01/09/2017 12:48:53 PM PST by Grampa Dave (Challenge Freepers, who post a bs article from the left and they don't challenge it!)
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