I used to subscribe the the WSJ. It was a great paper. But years ago it became fake news by pushing stupid Leftist, PC ideas in news and in editorials. Now they want to be holier-than-thou and criticize newspapers for Fake News?
Maybe they need to look at themselves.
However, the real story about "fake news" is as follows:
When "pizzagate" became a deal, Hillary and her media toads needed to squash it, so they yelled out that it was just "fake news."
Hoping to tag pizzagate as not really worth the effort for people to look into they began to label anything true and having to do with Hillary as "fake news."
Donald Trump, who is a master did something the toads had no comeback for and he pointed to CNN at a press conference and said, "YOU are fake news."
So, THAT, my FRiends, is the real story about "Fake News."
The news became fake because the Deep State’s deeply ingrained and senseless hatred for Trump. It is something demonic.
Melanie Phillips: How the media manipulates truth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=te01MtCJP0w&t=1190s
Jump to 5 or 6 minutes in
She explains it all
The news has always been fake, even as far back as Hearst.
The only difference is how vulgar and hackneyed it is.
Before the advent of the wire services, the news was all about the opinions of the printers of the newspapers which published it. Just like the Rush Limbaugh show is about the opinions of Rush Limbaugh now.With the advent of the AP and other later wire services, the news became about what was on “the wire.” In addition to what the local newspaper contributed to “the wire.” People were questioning the concentration of propaganda power which the AP represented at least as early as the 1870s, and the AP responded that its member newspapers contributed much/most of its content, and those newspapers notoriously did not agree about much of anything (and at the time, that was true). So, the AP asserted, the AP itself was “objective.”
The problem is that the logic of commercial success in journalism maps directly to anticapitalist propaganda. That is, successful journalism is about bad news about society, and thus about advertising the need for more government. And that
People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. - Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations (1776)Since “the wire” is a virtual meeting of “people of the trade” of journalism, in operation continuous operation since the Civil War, inevitably - by now, and long since - journalists had to conspire against the public in favor of journalism. In favor, that is, of arrogant condemnation of society, and naive promotion of government.Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one . . . — Thomas Paine, Common Sense (1776)Fake news follows inevitably from self-interest and self regard of journalists.
That Flanagan piece is excellent, she’s no righty and she includes a wee bit of boo Trump, but I wouldn’t even call it trump bashing. If you want details of what happened that day read her article.
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They became advocates.