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[–]ephrem_moseley 8 insightful - 3 fun8 insightful - 2 fun9 insightful - 3 fun -  (5 children)

CNN is fake news, generally speaking

[–]Lord_Falklands 5 insightful - 4 fun5 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 4 fun -  (1 child)

isn't CNN the official channel for all cattle class airport lounges ?

[–]ephrem_moseley 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Good point. It's how the oligarchs keep rich folx brainwashed.

[–]ActuallyNot 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

That's not what fake news is. Fake news isn't when you report on a scholarly paper, fake news is when you pretend that you're reporting on something, but you just made it up. Often for the political impact.

[–]ephrem_moseley 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Semantics? booooooring.

[–]ActuallyNot 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Fake news is an important problem, especially for democracies, where what people think to be true affects who is making decisions on how they can live, and what international diplomacy policies are enacted.

It's not a point of semantics to object to the dilution the meaning of the phrase by continually claiming "true reporting that I disagree with the conclusions of" is fake news. Because that hobbles discussion of some of the most serious issues of our time.