The ‘Fake News’ Con: A Case Study
"The
media have found a creative new way to explain away Hillary’s Clinton’s
crushing defeat and their own humiliation. They have dubbed the agent
of their mutual undoing “fake news” and talk about the phenomenon as
though it made real sense.
In an all too typical New York Times opinion piece
this week Michael Lynch defines “fake news” as “pure fiction
masquerading as truth” and presents it exclusively as a “right wing”
phenomenon. Like many of his colleagues, Lynch suggests the Russian
government was involved in planting fake news items and believes that
such items, regardless of source, may have cost Hillary Clinton the
election.
To
test Lynch’s thesis, we might profitably select a presumed “fake news”
item and follow its course through what the Clintons once called the
“communication stream of conspiracy commerce.” In August 2010, the Times
identified a news item simple enough and seemingly fake enough, “Obama
uses a phony Social Security number,” to makes a useful case study."
[American Thinker]
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