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The Real Danger of Fake News

Fake news is nothing new. Ever since the printing press was invented, publishers have taken liberties with the truth. The recent outrage over fake news has come from the main stream media. The MSM contends that fake news is responsible for an unjust outcome in the presidential election that denied the ‘over qualified’ Hillary Clinton her rightful and pre-ordained ascension to the Presidency.

As such, the MSM insists “something must be done” and has enlisted Facebook and Google to help eradicate “fake news” by identifying it, demonetizing web sites that publish fake news and removing it from view.

Indeed, it’s not that there is more “fake news” today, it’s that fewer people are reading MSM’s versions of it. This has the MSM firing up its shrinking audience and crying “fake news!” and “Russian Propagana!” much in the same way they have been crying “racist!” and “sexist!” in an attempt to silence political opposition for well over a decade.

The latest MSM ploy has fallen on deaf ears and blind eyes. Many remember the MSM as cheerleaders for Hillary Clinton during the Presidential campaign of 2016 and examples of MSM complicity in fake news stories (Rathergate comes to mind).

What the MSM is really complaining about is declining relevance. To try and regain relevance they have resorted to smearing alternative media sites with a broad brush as they see them as a threat to their very existence.

The Hill, while largely defending it MSM brethren, notes that the REAL issue with fake news is “mainstream news with an agenda.”

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Goodbye Identity Politics, Hello Fake Russian News

From Russia, With Love

The main stream media seems to have shifted seamlessly from incessant accusations of racism, sexism, homophobic and other less than inclusive terms as a way of belittling those that disagree with their narrative to tagging political opponents as readers or purveyors of “fake news”, which in some cases they allege, comes from Russia.

Identity politics failed in the most recent Presidential election as it required too large of the segment of voters to be deemed deplorable and irredeemable to be a viable strategy. Indeed, many Trump supporters wore the “deplorable” tag with pride, further reducing the effectiveness of the attempt at name shaming.

The tagging of political opponents with the fake news/Russian influenced label by the main stream media ploy lays its hope on people’s sense of wanting the truth and not wanting to be associated with big bad Russia. The problem with this approach, however, is the main stream media itself has been caught in some major fake news whoopers. In addition, Russia is no longer the perceived mortal enemy of the United States as it was during the Cold War.

A better ploy might be to label opponents as taking their orders from ISIS, but then that would be Islamophobic.

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NY Times and Washington Post “Debunk” Pizzagate

Update: BBC says Pizzagate is fake news

Wikileaks’ publication of John Podesta’s emails has revealed a series of unexplained coded language that researchers claim lead to a pedophile ring centered around a pizza restaurant in Washington D.C. The alleged scandal has been dubbed “Pizzagate”. John Podesta was Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager.

While the citizen researchers, who until a few days ago had been sharing their findings on a Reddit thread (since removed by Reddit), have not found a smoking gun, their research continues.

In a bizzare twist to the Pizzagate story, The New York Times and the Washington Post have dismissed the Pizzagate story. The New York Times last week called the Pizzagate research “a fake news onslaught“. Rather than an investigative piece, the New York Times piece focuses on the prevalence of “fake news” and the harm it causes. The New Yorks definitively states regarding the Pizzagate allegations: “none of it is true.”

The Washington Post ran a story “How Fake News Hurts Real People” The Washington Post story is similar to the NY Times story. Rather than concede that the Podesta emails contain some bizzare language, the Washintgon Post writes the allegations are ‘absurd on their face and detached from any gossamer thread of fact‘ and concludes that those impacted by Pizzagate allegations have claims for defamation.

Rather than reporting and coming up with their own scoops through investigative journalism, the main stream media appears to be relegated to the position of debunking “fake news” and giving legal advice.

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Fake News is the New Red Scare

Every since Hillary Clinton lost the election, fake news has emerged as one of the culprits for her defeat. Russian intervention has been cited by newly established web site “Prop or Not” that lists web sites it deems to be “Russian propaganda outlets”.

The Washington Post recently referenced Prop or Not in an article that reported “experts” concluded that Russian propaganda helped spread fake news during the presidential election.

Kelly Riddell of the Washington Times (itself listed on Prop or Not’s Russian propaganda list), notes that labeling news as “fake” is being used not to call out factually incorrect media, but rather to silence dissent. Ms. Riddell points out that all the sites labelled fake news happen to be right leaning sites.

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