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by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 05/15/2018, 10:10am PDT |
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Donald Trump seems to think there is too much "fake news" - whatever that means - whereas some might say he's an incompetent blowhard who declares news he doesn't like as "fake".
But what is "fake news"?
Is it stories made out of whole cloth, like the reports of the rioting and death at the Bowling Green Massacre?
Or is it the over-hyping of trivial stories that probably did not need to be covered, like, anything about anyone whose last name is Kardashian?
Or is it the pushing of newsworthy but less important stories in order to cause stories someone wants to have less notice be overshasdowed by less importance?
The US alone has 4 24-hour news networks - all privately owned - and internationally there are maybe another half dozen, most owned by governments or operated by government-sponsored broadcasters (RT, Russia; Al Jazeera, Qatar; BBC World Service, UK, etc. Does the news hunger of all these media outlets ramp up the pressure to produce "fake news," or is the whole argument specious and the amount of so-called fake news is no more than it had been in the past few years?
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