SaintsInDome2006
Footballguy
I actually don’t think this is a bad point if I understand you correctly, but to be clear *originally ‘fake news’ referred to literally sites devoted to one fake story but weren’t really news sites. I do agree that the ‘fake news’ concept got bandied about too loosely later and then yeah now here’s a pro-Trump genuine media syndicate implicitly calling other genuine media sources ‘fake’ simply because they report things in a way that Trumpites don’t like.The 'beware fake news' messaging sure sounds an awful lot like the lamenting people were doing when they blamed fake news for Trump's win. It even calls out 'posts shared on social media.' Then Trump usurped the fake news meme and weaponized it against his opponents. Guess it was a really stupid and careless idea to malign peripheral news outlets like that. As if MSM hasn't been a straightup propaganda machine for US imperialism for a long time now.
I don't think that's a necessarily proTrump message so much as a pro-Establishment message, although Sinclair does appear to be in the tank for Trump. Old news is the arbiter of truth, not those shaky social media articles.
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