Fake News

While the term goes back 100 years, the history is summed up well by Sharyl Attkisson. While the term goes back 100 years, the history is summed up well in a Sharyl Attkisson. While our media has always had false narratives and bad stories that are Fake News, we didn't use the term "Fake News". We called it liberal media bias or journalistic incompetence, but it's been around since the first liberal got sloppy somewhere back in Roman times. ℹ️ Info           ~ Aristotle Sabouni Created: 2019-08-16

While our media has always had false narratives and bad stories that are Fake News (exampled include: Edward R. Murrow's "See it now" McCarthy'ing Joe McCarthy (1954), Richard Jewel story (1996), story about a plane crashing into Camp David after 9/11 (2001), Duke LeCross Rape Case (2014), Michael Brown and 'hands up, don't shoot' narrative (2014), and so on). We didn't use the term "Fake News". We called it liberal media bias or journalistic incompetence, but it's been around since the first liberal got sloppy somewhere back in Roman times.

Then on September 13, 2016 Hillary Clinton supporters Google and Eric Schmidt, used a shell charity (a non-profit called "First Draft,") to start seeding the term to attack right wing websites ("to tackle malicious hoaxes and fake news reports"). Hillary Clinton and her surrogate David Brock of Media Matters admitted in a campaign letter that they pressured Facebook to join the effort. Google warned Conservative websites to remove stories that Google didn't like, or they'd take away their ad revenue. And Barack Obama and the liberal media followed along, regurgitating what they were told: none were going to let this opportunity (to curate what information we could see) go to waste, all in the name of protecting free speech. All coincidentally done at the same time, in what could only be a coordinated campaign attack.

Unfortunately for them, it backfired when people noticed that the mainstream liberal media made more errors and was less honest, and started throwing it back in their face. Fake News applied more to the News, Google, Facebook, Obama and other curators and finger pointers than their victims. Donald Trump used that to hijack the term and use it back against them. The left tried to change the narrative and pretend that Trump had created the term, and they wanted to stop using it and claimed it was a hateful term and an attack on free press to point out the Presses bias or errors. And that's where we are today.

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118 year old Michigan Man votes by absentee ballot		Did the Detroit give and count an absentee ballot from a 118-year-old dead voter, as a video or FB post shows? Yes, but they claim it was just a clerical error and it went to his son (who is still alive) and he filled it out for himself. But that doesn't change that a dead man voted and got miscounted (even if it was a 1:1 trade).
1619 Project		The NY Times’ 1619 Project was created by anti-American Marxists with the goal to reimagine American history from a racist point of view. By imagining America as founded on Slavery (in 1619), it means it's part of our immutable DNA, thus we must destroy America to remake it in a more enlightened Socialist/Fascist image.
1938 Hitler: Time Man of the Year		"Man of the Year" isn't always a good thing (and is about "impact"), the truth is that Time was sometimes fawning and positive about Hitler. It's like the old joke, "But he was great with Dogs and Children"... which might be true, but doesn't overshadow the other character and behavioral flaws that they chose not to dwell on.
1996 Andrew Dice Clay Ambush		I don't know if they were trying to ambush him with something, or just be incompetent, but the comedian lost it, used obscenities, and walked off over their insulting incompetence. He obviously felt they got him there over false pretenses and insulted him.
2001.03.01 T.R.O.L.L.		Snopes had a whole section for spreading disinformation called "The Repository of Lost Legends" or T.R.O.L.L. While it was intended to teach skepticism, by telling things that weren't true, and seeing if people would figure it out -- it was just condescending misinformation and hurt their brand of being a trustworthy source.
2002.10.12 Up-the-butt Bob		There was a famous Newlywed gameshow story, where a female contestant was asked "what's the strangest place you made whoopee" and she replied, "in the ass". The problem isn't that Snopes is wrong today, they found the clip and the article has a lot of backstory.
2003.04.10 Tools of the Tyrant		🔥 Only after the fall of Baghdad, on-air and in an Op-Ed titled, "The News We Kept to Ourselves", CNN's exec-in-charge admit (Eason Jordan) admitted to having suppressed from the public the truth about Saddam being a murderous tyrant, in order to keep CNN's access to Iraq.
2004.04.24 Ozone Man		New Yorker (Remnick) reviewed Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth" and wrote: "[Gore] insists that we focus on what likely will be an uninhabitable planet if we fail to pay attention to the folly we are committing". Remnick rails against Bush for not believing the Junk Science. When the "documentary" became debunked bullshit, New Yorker/Remnick never retracted or apologized.
2005.02.11 U.S. targets journalists		CNN Director Eason Jordon was forced to resign after falsely claiming the U.S. (and Iraq) were intentionally targeting innocents and journalists in Iraq.
2009 Glaciers gone by 2020		After Al Gore's error filled Inconvenient Truth, a lot of places, including Glacier National Park put up propaganda sensationalizing their watermelon socialist predictions, like signs around the park predicting that the Glaciers would be gone by 2020 or 2030. Since they were devistatingly wrong, they removed them.

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Conclusion

If you think my list of a couple hundred is comprehensive, you're way mistaken. For ever example I found, there are likely dozens that I have not.

Just breaking down Trump alone:

• There's whole sites like TheGivingTrump.com that documents a couple hundred cases of Trump's philanthropy over the years.
• There are sites like MSMLies.com that have a few hundred examples of the media getting it wrong as well.
• While I have some of the Fake Hate articles listed here, these are only ones where the media clearly mislead. The more comprehensive list has lies of omission (ones you never heard about), and certainly, how many stories in NYT or elsewhere have you read that refers to the total number of Fake crimes there are? Omitting that context when talking about the topic is Fake News as well.
• There's AttacksOnTrumpSupporters.com or my own smaller but more details Real Hate that shows some of the many attacks that conservatives/Trump supporters have dealt with. The fact that there's not MORE counter-violence and retaliation reflects who has the moral high ground.
  
  

If you haven't heard of all of this in the Press, and any of this is news to you, it tells you more about the Press than Trump. And the Presses bias against Trump is a small subset of the problem of their bias for progressive / far-left causes, against conservatives at large.

So the reason that confidence in the Press has crashed is NOT because people are less informed -- but because it's harder for the Press to hide their bias, errors, and crappy standards in the Information Age.

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👁️ See also

• Memes/Media/Fake - To the left, the ends are so good, that any means is justified. Like giving up any and all professional integrity.

🔗 More

Terms We need to agree on what terms mean. This used to be easy, before SJW's/Marxists started Orwelling our language.

Bias Disproportionate weight for or against a person, place, idea or thing, usually ignoring evidence against.

Fakes Extreme bias that goes beyond honest mistake and becomes lies, frauds or fakes (wilful ignorance).

Meta Meta means after or beyond... or the concept of an abstraction. Made of others.

🔗 Links

• http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/mainstream-media-errors-in-the-trump-era-your-catalogue-of-the-medias-bias-fueled-failure-fest/article/2614432
• ABC Bryan Ross reported Michael Flynn was going to testify that he was ordered to contact Russian Officials while he was running for office. (Ross got suspended, and is not
• WaPo reporter showed FakeNews image, with tiny crowd -- turns out it was before the auditorium was loaded.
• California puts a 50-gallon-per-day limit (or stiff fines). People point out this means that you can't shower and do laundry on the same day. Fact Checkers claim conservatives are lying because technically, you can take a shorter shower and not get fined. (Rolls eyes). Materially the point is true. Technically, they can play gotcha and pretend it's fake, when the fake (partisan) is the fact checking that always supports liberal disinformation. <ref>Shorter Showers:
  • http://thefederalist.com/2018/06/11/yes-california-effectively-banned-showering-laundry-day/
• https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/the-real-story-of-fake-news
• Sharyl Attkinson video: https://pjmedia.com/video/sharyl-attkisson-explains-tedx-talk-origins-2016-fake-news-narrative/
  • https://sharylattkisson.com/2019/01/22/50-media-mistakes-in-the-trump-era-the-definitive-list/
• http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/mainstream-media-errors-in-the-trump-era-your-catalogue-of-the-medias-bias-fueled-failure-fest/article/2614432

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