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It Trump was really bothered by Fake News he would reinstate the FCC's "Fairness Doctrine." During the Ronald Reagan administration they believed that honesty was an infringement to free speech in broadcast Journalism. If that happened how many news agencies would have to go away?
1. Knowingly reporting a lie as truth
2. False information that the reporter failed to properly research and failed to realize that it was false
3. Something trivial meant to deflect attention away from a major issue
4. Something trivial because the media has nothing else to report on for that day
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Originally Posted by emcee squared
"Fake news" is information that doesn't conform to what you believe is true, making you dismiss it without attempting to educate yourself on the subject.
A combination of laziness and purposeful ignorance, basically.
These are perhaps some of the best easy-to-explain explanations of Fox News I have seen.
2. False information that the reporter failed to properly research and failed to realize that it was false
i would consider this "fake news" if there were no adequate retraction/correction when discovered to be false information.
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3. Something trivial meant to deflect attention away from a major issue
4. Something trivial because the media has nothing else to report on for that day
if the information is correct, no matter how trivial, then i'd consider it "not newsworthy" but not "fake news".
Fake news is a myth spread by Donald Trump and lapped up by his mindless cult. He doesn't like any questions about anything he has done, so he has to try to diminish the importance of those reports and shift the blame to someone else. It is his only defense.
Journalists have a responsibility to ask the tough questions and dig for the truth. His Trumpees hate them doing it because they often find dirt on "The Great Orange Messia" and they don't care to hear any of it.
If these people were suddenly gone off the face of the earth, this country could not survive. People in power could do anything they wanted because no one would know. But I understand how Trumpees must feel, it has to be a bi*** to see and hear your leader being outed every day of the week. Problem is, they need to look at the source instead of the reporters. If he weren't doing this ****, there would be nothing to report.
I consider fake news outright lies presented as fact or news articles, not opinion pieces, devoid of pertinent facts in order to push a very biased point of view. virtually all msm news sources are guilty of both, unfortunately.
Melissa Howard, who is running for a seat in the Florida House of Representatives, has been challenged over the college degree she claimed from Ohio's Miami University. The college says that she did not receive a degree, and that she only attended for three years. Ms Howard says that she never meant to mislead anyone when she said that she had completed her degree.
Ms Howard also posted a picture of herself holding her "degree", which the university says is not one of their degrees.
Ms Howard's campaign consultant characterizes the story as "fake news". Her husband is ill, and Ms Howard is focusing on him rather than on "fake news".
I'm unclear on why this is fake news. She did state that she had completed her degree, on her candidate bio as well as while she was out campaigning. She did a post a picture of herself holding a framed (handsomely framed) degree which it has turned out to be fraudulent. She is running for office, and lying about her credentials is pertinent to her qualifications as a candidate. So how is this fake news?
She was just following the leader. Guess she figured if Trump can get away with his thousands of lies, so can she. Trump has made lying a way of life and other dumb-dumbs figure they'll try it also. They like his philosophy of "lie, lie, and lies some more, and they'll believe it." This woman sounds like a doozy if she thought she could get away with this lie.
It Trump was really bothered by Fake News he would reinstate the FCC's "Fairness Doctrine." During the Ronald Reagan administration they believed that honesty was an infringement to free speech in broadcast Journalism. If that happened how many news agencies would have to go away?
If Trump was really bothered by Fake News, Fox News would not be his go-to network and employee recruitment center.
Fake news is news that makes me look bad. Or so goes the dystopian, Trumpian use of the term.
That seems to be the case. "Fake news" simply means "True or false, I will no longer address the matter. My mind is shut."
Here's a marvelous example of Trump's ambassador to the Netherlands calling his previous statements fake news. Sadly for him, Dutch journalists are unafraid of hounding those in power, and once confronted with evidence, he decides that the never even said fake news at all, I guess in effect trying to fake-news his previous fake-newsing. It's 1 minute, worth watching.
Unfortunately, Trump has so degraded public discourse that he's even mangled the meaning of "fake news."
Like Trump, she's terming "fake" anything she doesn't like.
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What is "fake" news?
