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So we heard how "Fake News" are extremely dangerous and a propaganda tool for quite some time now, especially when right-wing websites, blogs or opinions were labeled as "Fake News". Of course, the most prominent spokesman for this cause was Hillary Clinton when she felt that unverified stories and a lack of journalistic standards might hurt her reputation or the reputation of people associated with her. The called it an 'epidemic' and, together with other Dems, even was pushing for laws against fake news. The MSM followed.
They also enthusiastically reported how European governments prepare to fight against "Fake News".
The narrative in the liberal media clearly was that it's appropriate for a government to fight fake news, and there's no way to spin this. And that always implies that somebody has to define what actually is considered Fake News, that should have been obvious all the time.
After the Buzzfeed debacle, the Washington post suddenly became critical of the term 'fake news', repeating the exact same concerns which people on the right or conservatives voiced a long time before. They now publish articles like "It’s time to retire the tainted term ‘fake news’". On how it's subjective what Fake News is and how it's easy to label anything as fake news: "the label has been co-opted to mean any number of completely different things: Liberal claptrap. Or opinion from left-of-center. Or simply anything in the realm of news that the observer doesn’t like to hear."
Now, they suddenly see it as a weapon of the 'conservative media machine' after ridiculing claims from the right that it might be used as a weapon of the liberal media machine:
" “The speed with which the term became polarized and in fact a rhetorical weapon illustrates how efficient the conservative media machine has become,” said George Washington University professor Nikki Usher. "
The NYT titles: "Wielding Claims of ‘Fake News,’ Conservatives Take Aim at Mainstream Media"
Looks like the same problem that I have with the liberals' and leftists' mentality when it comes to a lot of topics: The believe that government should do something under the assumption that the 'right' guys are in charge and that it's done 'the right way' (agreeing with them), then they panic when somebody else would be in charge of similar actions.
I agree with their latest assessments. The term should be retired and Trump shouldn't label single media outlets as fake news. But maybe that would be easier if they had not promoted the term in an absolutely uncritical way and ridiculed critique of the 'fake news' initiative for the last 3 months.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/life...a7516c-d375-11e6-945a-76f69a399dd5_story.html
They also enthusiastically reported how European governments prepare to fight against "Fake News".
The narrative in the liberal media clearly was that it's appropriate for a government to fight fake news, and there's no way to spin this. And that always implies that somebody has to define what actually is considered Fake News, that should have been obvious all the time.
After the Buzzfeed debacle, the Washington post suddenly became critical of the term 'fake news', repeating the exact same concerns which people on the right or conservatives voiced a long time before. They now publish articles like "It’s time to retire the tainted term ‘fake news’". On how it's subjective what Fake News is and how it's easy to label anything as fake news: "the label has been co-opted to mean any number of completely different things: Liberal claptrap. Or opinion from left-of-center. Or simply anything in the realm of news that the observer doesn’t like to hear."
Now, they suddenly see it as a weapon of the 'conservative media machine' after ridiculing claims from the right that it might be used as a weapon of the liberal media machine:
" “The speed with which the term became polarized and in fact a rhetorical weapon illustrates how efficient the conservative media machine has become,” said George Washington University professor Nikki Usher. "
The NYT titles: "Wielding Claims of ‘Fake News,’ Conservatives Take Aim at Mainstream Media"
Looks like the same problem that I have with the liberals' and leftists' mentality when it comes to a lot of topics: The believe that government should do something under the assumption that the 'right' guys are in charge and that it's done 'the right way' (agreeing with them), then they panic when somebody else would be in charge of similar actions.
I agree with their latest assessments. The term should be retired and Trump shouldn't label single media outlets as fake news. But maybe that would be easier if they had not promoted the term in an absolutely uncritical way and ridiculed critique of the 'fake news' initiative for the last 3 months.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/life...a7516c-d375-11e6-945a-76f69a399dd5_story.html
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