Liberal CNN publishes column asking to ban the term ‘fake news’

foxnews.com ^ | 11/28/17 | Brian Flood

[ColdOne]

In an opinion piece on the cable news network's website Sunday, writers Hossein Derakhshan and Claire Wardle called for scrapping the term President Trump has made synonymous with CNN. The duo wrote that use of the term “fake news” is “not only self-defeating, it oversimplifies a very complex problem” and it devalues the expression that has “become meaningless” over the past year.

The phrase is now “used to describe any piece of information that someone else didn't like” and has been “has become weaponized by politician,” Derakhshan and Wardle wrote, adding the term should be used when referring to clearly false content such as the viral photo of a shark swimming up a Texas highway during Hurricane Harvey (spoiler alert: the photo wasn’t real).

Derakhshan and Wardle recently co-authored a report, "Information Disorder," which was commissioned by the Council of Europe. They claim the problem exists all over the world, but most Americans likely associate “fake news” with CNN, thanks to President Trump's relentless branding.

[ColdOne]

OK then just call them what they really are, liars.

[stars & stripes forever]

LYING LIBERAL NEWS.

[FrankR]

Just WHO has the authority to “BAN IT”, and just WHO has the authority to ENFORCE the ban?

Has the reporter never heard of the First Amendment?

[stars & stripes forever]

Those who define the language control the people.

[Jolla]

“fake news” is ...a very complex problem

Really, for who

[Grampa Dave]

[Responsibility2nd]

[Electric Graffiti]

I have a better idea, let’s bring the anti-American propagandists to justice—mob justice.

[beergarden]

how about Fake Ass News’?

[kaboom]

“fake news” is CNN

[backwoods-engineer]

Remember, at the beginning, this term was coined by Progressive Marxists to discredit conservative, alt-right, and alternative news sites. It backfired massively, and with Trump's use of the term virtually daily, they now want to try to limit the damage by banning the use of the term. They still think they control the narrative.

WRONG.

[RooRoobird20]

Okay,the new term is now “extremely fake news.”

[dforest]

Okay, but we are keeping “really fake news”.

[dsc]

“not only self-defeating”

It threatens to defeat you, more than anything in my 6.6 decades on this rock.

“it oversimplifies a very complex problem”

What’s complex about you being liars?

[colorado tanker]

Didn’t someone at CNN early on declare war or some such on Trump? The way they’re whining they must be losing.

[Bobalu]

[timestax]

[Terry Mross]

I didn’t click on the article but what I did read never mentioned the word “ban”.

[VTenigma]

Hey CNN, I have a news flash for you. We aren’t baning any speech, per the constitution, k?

[Texan Tory]

Agree with what you said. The following verse from the Bible comes to mind:

Esther Chapter 7, Verse 10: “So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king’s wrath pacified.”