What Is Fake News?

[Robo]

What is fake news?

Well, I think fake news is the stuff we can find on the web, blogs and such and propaganda found on facebook and other social media and in the supermarket rags at the checkout.

I don’t think that TV news and nationally noted newspapers are necessarily fake news. I think they’re Selective politically biased, embellished, and exaggerated news. They’re most usually but not always pretty much simple truths with agendas. Example: ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN and MSNBC are all leftist political propaganda TV channels who design their every so-called news cast to nit pick and expose every negative word, act and waking moment no matter how small of Donald Trump while reporting every positive no matter how small, word, act and waking moment of any and all leftist, Democrats, socialist and neo-communist i.e. modern liberals. Fox channels on the other hand do the exact opposite. They embellish and exaggerate every thing negative about the collective left they can find no matter how small and endlessly report everything and anything they can find no matter how small that is positive about the rightist even Donald Trump.

What we have here folks isn’t fake news, it’s politically biased, embellished and exaggerated SELECTIVE news with opposing political agendas.

 

[signalmankenneth]

 

[Evmetro]

Fake news means something different to each side of the aisle, but I can offer what fake news is from my side. Selecting and compiling specific facts while excluding others in order to assemble a narrative that serves a specific political agenda, yet this narrative does not match up with how the political landscape really is. It is very possible to use facts that are not relevant or in the correct context to assemble a "factual" narrative that cannot be disputed. This inaccurate, yet factual narrative is the most common form of fake news that I see. I could research a member's posts here on this forum and select bits and pieces from his various posts to create almost any narrative if I rearrange them all a certain way, but the narrative would be fake. It would be in his very own words, but absurdly wrong. If the MSM all agreed with this fake narrative, they could make it stick...

 

[Bill]

Fake news isn't defined, & for a reason.........

 

[Buckly J. Ewer]

Fake news is much of what comes out of the orange clown's mouth.
It is often the world as Trump would like it to be...

 

[midcan5]

Defining Fake news is simple, Frankfurt defined it quite some time ago. But today it has changed. Everyone has laughed at the National Inquirer stories on aliens, Bigfoot etc but there are people who believe in these things. We'll leave them alone and define the new fake news. It is assumption, supposition, exaggeration, false comparisons, strange equivalences which distort information to the point you can fill in anything you like except that its purpose is a bit more clever. It casts doubt about the integrity or honesty of everything and is done to confuse. In the background is purpose though. Consider for instance that Wikileaks only goes after the US political system. Odd huh.

"It is just this lack of connection to a concern with truth - this indifference to how things really are - that I regard as of the essence of bullshit." Harry Frankfurt

"Frankfurt’s theory is easy to state. Both the truth-teller and the liar have it in common that they care about the truth. The person who aims at the truth tries to figure out what the world is like and to communicate that to others; the liar attempts to deceive. But by his very attempt to mislead others, the liar betrays his own concern, however perverse, with how things are. As Frankfurt puts it, the truth-teller and the liar are playing opposite sides of the same game." Jonathan Lear


"Today we don’t need rallies or newsreels because we have the internet and social media, the addiction of our age. It is a dependency on a drug which under the infamous “diversity of perspectives” presents morality and immorality as part of a landscape that spreads out flat to the horizon. Even we humble reporters can see what is happening. To an extent never witnessed before, a lot of people have started believing things that aren’t true. And it is acceptable to do this. And we help them." Robert Fisk

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/12...e-live-in-a-world-of-lies-and-we-always-have/

 

[anatta]

Fake news means something different to each side of the aisle, but I can offer what fake news is from my side. Selecting and compiling specific facts while excluding others in order to assemble a narrative that serves a specific political agenda, yet this narrative does not match up with how the political landscape really is. It is very possible to use facts that are not relevant or in the correct context to assemble a "factual" narrative that cannot be disputed. This inaccurate, yet factual narrative is the most common form of fake news that I see. I could research a member's posts here on this forum and select bits and pieces from his various posts to create almost any narrative if I rearrange them all a certain way, but the narrative would be fake. It would be in his very own words, but absurdly wrong. If the MSM all agreed with this fake narrative, they could make it stick...

Ya. heavily spun to fit a pre-concieved narrative

 

[anonymous201]

to me, fake news is about pushing an agenda or ideology while cherry-picking the facts or otherwise being misleading.

 

[Lightbringer]

What is fake news?

Well, I think fake news is the stuff we can find on the web, blogs and such and propaganda found on facebook and other social media and in the supermarket rags at the checkout.

I don’t think that TV news and nationally noted newspapers are necessarily fake news. I think they’re Selective politically biased, embellished, and exaggerated news. They’re most usually but not always pretty much simple truths with agendas. Example: ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN and MSNBC are all leftist political propaganda TV channels who design their every so-called news cast to nit pick and expose every negative word, act and waking moment no matter how small of Donald Trump while reporting every positive no matter how small, word, act and waking moment of any and all leftist, Democrats, socialist and neo-communist i.e. modern liberals. Fox channels on the other hand do the exact opposite. They embellish and exaggerate every thing negative about the collective left they can find no matter how small and endlessly report everything and anything they can find no matter how small that is positive about the rightist even Donald Trump.

What we have here folks isn’t fake news, it’s politically biased, embellished and exaggerated SELECTIVE news with opposing political agendas.

All news is "fake". Now get your ass back to homeroom.

 

[MsDaisy]

News which reports deliberate falsehoods. The problem is, liberals want to call any news which reports right-leaning opinions as fake news. To them, fake news is not only falsehoods, but unpopular (from their POV) opinions.

 

[Lightbringer]

News which reports deliberate falsehoods. The problem is, liberals want to call any news which reports right-leaning opinions as fake news. To them, fake news is not only falsehoods, but unpopular (from their POV) opinions.

To be fair the right does it too.