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Blowback: CNN Pushes Effort To “Ban The Term ‘Fake News'”
SHTF Plan ^ | 11-28-2017 | Paul Joseph Watson

Posted on 11/28/2017 10:41:55 AM PST by blam

CNN is now pushing an effort to “ban the term fake news” after the slogan became synonymous with CNN itself thanks to President Donald Trump.

In a CNN opinion piece written by Hossein Derakhshan and Claire Wardle, who are affiliated with the globalist Council of Europe, the authors argue that the term “fake news” has “become meaningless” and lost its power because politicians (primarily Donald Trump) have hijacked it as a way to “undermine” the media establishment.

The authors decry the fact that many people now believe the mainstream media peddles “fabricated stories” and that information monopolies are being challenged by the ability for “anyone in the world” to have a platform.

"Remember when the mainstream media & the Hillary campaign invented the term "fake news" in an effort to discredit alternative & right of center media outlets?"

Complaining that “less powerful agents can harm large institutions or established individuals,” Derakhshan and Wardle warn that trust in institutions is declining and that only through intervention at the level of “public education” (ie indoctrination) can this be reversed.

Of course, the real reason media elites want to clamp down on the term “fake news” is because its original intention, to smear and discredit opponents of Hillary Clinton, right of center media outlets, and people who distrust the mainstream media, has completely backfired.

This was illustrated yet again by Donald Trump’s tweet earlier today when he suggested that a “fake news trophy” should be awarded to the network that has been responsible for the most inaccurate reporting.

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(Excerpt) Read more at shtfplan.com ...


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KEYWORDS: ccnnews; fakenews; msm; trump
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To: blam

It’s buggin’ ‘em I tell ya, it’s buggin’ the crap out of ‘em.


21 posted on 11/28/2017 11:19:29 AM PST by V_TWIN
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22 posted on 11/28/2017 11:23:30 AM PST by bigbob (People say believe half of what you see son and none of what you hear - M. Gaye)
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To: blam

“the authors argue that the term “fake news” has “become meaningless” and lost its power because politicians (primarily Donald Trump) have hijacked it “

Something like the overused terms `racist’ and `fascist’?
Or because they used it pejoratively, like `Yankee doodle’ or `impressionist’ painting, until the object adopts the label?
There’s no pleasing these people.


23 posted on 11/28/2017 11:31:17 AM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all white armed conservatives)
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To: blam
Might be a good time to review what Thomas Jefferson, that great advocate for freedom of the press, had to say on matters such as those we witness today:
"At a very early period of my life, I determined never to put a sentence into any newspaper. I have religiously adhered to the resolution through my life, and have great reason to be contented with it. Were I to undertake to answer the calumnies of the newspapers, it would be more than all my own time and that of twenty aids could effect. For while I should be answering one, twenty new ones would be invented. I have thought it better to trust to the justice of my countrymen, that they would judge me by what they see of my conduct on the stage where they have placed me, and what they knew of me before the epoch since which a particular party has supposed it might answer some view of theirs to vilify me in the public eye. Some, I know, will not reflect how apocryphal is the testimony of enemies so palpably betraying the views with which they give it. But this is an injury to which duty requires every one to submit whom the public think proper to call into its councils." --Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Smith, 1798. ME 10:58

"[I have seen] repeated instances of the publication of what has not been intended for the public eye, and the malignity with which political enemies torture every sentence from me into meanings imagined by their own wickedness only... Not fearing these political bull-dogs, I yet avoid putting myself in the way of being baited by them, and do not wish to volunteer away that portion of tranquillity, which a firm execution of my duties will permit me to enjoy." --Thomas Jefferson to John Norvell, 1807. ME 11:226

"Conscious that there was not a truth on earth which I feared should be known, I have lent myself willingly as the subject of a great experiment, which was to prove that an administration, conducting itself with integrity and common understanding, cannot be battered down even by the falsehoods of a licentious press, and consequently still less by the press as restrained within the legal and wholesome limits of truth. This experiment was wanting for the world to demonstrate the falsehood of the pretext that freedom of the press is incompatible with orderly government. I have never, therefore, even contradicted the thousands of calumnies so industriously propagated against myself. But the fact being once established, that the press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood, I leave to others to restore it to its strength by recalling it within the pale of truth. Within that, it is a noble institution, equally the friend of science and of civil liberty." --Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Seymour, 1807. ME 11:155

"My opinion of the manner in which a newspaper should be conducted so as to be most useful [is]... 'by restraining it to true facts and sound principle only.' Yet I fear such a paper would find few subscribers. It is a melancholy truth, that a suppression of the press could not more completely deprive the nation of its benefits than is done by its abandoned prostitution to falsehood." --Thomas Jefferson to John Norvell, 1807. ME 11:224

"Perhaps an editor might begin a reformation in some such way as this. Divide his paper into four chapters, heading the 1st, Truths. 2nd, Probabilities. 3rd, Possibilities. 4th, Lies. The first chapter would be very short, as it would contain little more than authentic papers and information from such sources as the editor would be willing to risk his own reputation for their truth. The second would contain what, from a mature consideration of all circumstances, his judgment should conclude to be probably true. This, however, should rather contain too little than too much. The third and fourth should be professedly for those readers who would rather have lies for their money than the blank paper they would occupy." --Thomas Jefferson to John Norvell, 1807. ME 11:225

"An editor [should] set his face against the demoralizing practice of feeding the public mind habitually on slander and the depravity of taste which this nauseous aliment induces. Defamation is becoming a necessary of life, insomuch that a dish of tea in the morning or evening cannot be digested without this stimulant. Even those who do not believe these abominations, still read them with complaisance to their auditors, and instead of the abhorrence and indignation which should fill a virtuous mind, betray a secret pleasure in the possibility that some may believe them, though they do not themselves. It seems to escape them, that it is not he who prints, but he who pays for printing a slander, who is its real author." --Thomas Jefferson to John Norvell, 1807. ME 11:225


24 posted on 11/28/2017 11:32:49 AM PST by loveliberty2
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To: DannyTN

So I am wondering. Are we banning “fake news” or are we banning fake news.


25 posted on 11/28/2017 11:42:56 AM PST by AndyJackson
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To: tumblindice

That’s the fact, Jack. Fake news has lost nowhere near the meaning of ‘racist,’ ‘harassment,’ and ‘bigoty,’ but where is no groundswell of indignation that we should ban the terms.


26 posted on 11/28/2017 11:55:28 AM PST by sparklite2 (I hereby designate the ongoing kerfuffle Diddle-Gate.)
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To: blam

Fake news = A rotten worm infested apple.


27 posted on 11/28/2017 12:13:38 PM PST by kanawa (Trump Loves a Great Deal)
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To: blam
So CNN is going to try to make the term 'fake news' politically incorrect eh? Cool; now we know to use it twice as much as before!!


28 posted on 11/28/2017 2:10:28 PM PST by Boomer (TisOK2BWhite)
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To: AndyJackson

CNN wants to ban the term “Fake New” because it’s being used to describe their fake news.


29 posted on 11/28/2017 2:14:40 PM PST by DannyTN
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30 posted on 11/28/2017 4:34:45 PM PST by Chode (You have all of the resources you are going to have. Abandon your illusions and plan accordingly.)
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