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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWielding Claims of Fake News, Conservatives Take Aim at Mainstream Media
WASHINGTON The C.I.A., the F.B.I. and the White House may all agree that Russia was behind the hacking that interfered with the election. But that was of no import to the website Breitbart News, which dismissed reports on the intelligence assessment as left-wing fake news.
Rush Limbaugh has diagnosed a more fundamental problem. The fake news is the everyday news in the mainstream media, he said on his radio show recently. They just make it up.
Some supporters of President-elect Donald J. Trump have also taken up the call. As reporters were walking out of a Trump rally this month in Orlando, Fla., a man heckled them with shouts of Fake news!
Until now, that term had been widely understood to refer to fabricated news accounts that are meant to spread virally online. But conservative cable and radio personalities, top Republicans and even Mr. Trump himself, incredulous about suggestions that that fake stories may have helped swing the election, have appropriated the term and turned it against any news they see as hostile to their agenda.
Rush Limbaugh has diagnosed a more fundamental problem. The fake news is the everyday news in the mainstream media, he said on his radio show recently. They just make it up.
Some supporters of President-elect Donald J. Trump have also taken up the call. As reporters were walking out of a Trump rally this month in Orlando, Fla., a man heckled them with shouts of Fake news!
Until now, that term had been widely understood to refer to fabricated news accounts that are meant to spread virally online. But conservative cable and radio personalities, top Republicans and even Mr. Trump himself, incredulous about suggestions that that fake stories may have helped swing the election, have appropriated the term and turned it against any news they see as hostile to their agenda.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/25/us/politics/fake-news-claims-conservatives-mainstream-media-.html
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Wielding Claims of Fake News, Conservatives Take Aim at Mainstream Media (Original Post)
spanone
Dec 2016
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RKP5637
(67,108 posts)1. FFS, next up will be Alex Jones as the soothsayer of ultimate truth. n/t
spanone
(135,831 posts)2. the right will claim anything that opposes them is fake news...and they are the purveyors of it.
mn9driver
(4,425 posts)3. The bubble is a perfect circle.
The art of projecting their practice of lying about everything onto everyone else keeps the bubble intact.
mainer
(12,022 posts)4. I've been hearing that response a lot on Twitter
Whenever I post a link to a newspaper or magazine article that disagrees with a Trump troll, they screech FAKE NEWS.