16 Fake News Stories Reporters Have Run Since Trump Won

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16 Fake News Stories Reporters Have Run Since Trump Won

http://thefederalist.com/2017/02/06/16-fake-news-stories-reporters-have-run-since-trump-won/#.WJivFqEmET8.twitter

Since at least Donald Trump’s election, our media have been in the grip of an astonishing, self-inflicted crisis. Despite Trump’s constant railing against the American press, there is no greater enemy of the American media than the American media. They did this to themselves.

We are in the midst of an epidemic of fake news. There is no better word to describe it than “epidemic,” insofar as it fits the epidemiological model from the Centers for Disease Control: this phenomenon occurs when “an agent and susceptible hosts are present in adequate numbers, and the agent can be effectively conveyed from a source to the susceptible hosts.”

The “agent” in this case is hysteria over Trump’s presidency, and the “susceptible hosts” are a slipshod, reckless, and breathtakingly gullible media class that spread the hysteria around like—well, like a virus.

It is difficult to adequately sum up the breadth of this epidemic, chiefly because it keeps growing: day after day, even hour after hour, the media continue to broadcast, spread, promulgate, publicize, and promote fake news on an industrial scale. It has become a regular part of our news cycle, not distinct from or extraneous to it but a part of it, embedded within the news apparatus as a spoke is embedded in a bicycle wheel.

Whenever you turn on a news station, visit a news website, or check in on a journalist or media personality on Twitter or Facebook, there is an excellent chance you will be exposed to fake news.

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and a sampling...

Early November: Spike in Transgender Suicide Rates

November 22: The Tri-State Election Hacking Conspiracy Theory

January 20: Betsy DeVos, Grizzly Fighter

January 26: The ‘Resignations’ At the State Department

February 2: The House of Representatives’ Gun Control Measures

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But wait. There's more!

http://freebeacon.com/politics/2-minutes-mainstream-media-backtracking-fake-news-perspective/

[Maj. Bill Martin]

People have placed far too much faith in the media for far too long.  They need, badly, to be taken down a few notches.  Or maybe a lot of notches.

[jmyrlefuller]

People have placed far too much faith in the media for far too long.  They need, badly, to be taken down a few notches.  Or maybe a lot of notches.

Judging by the outcome of the election, they already have been taken down a few notches. If people still had faith in the media, Trump never would've been elected.

Decades of pushing an agenda and labeling it as "truth" finally backfired on them. When they went all-in against Trump, it didn't matter whether the accusations were true or not (and many of them, alas, were undeniable); Trump became the vote of defiance.

It is a classic case of Crying Wolf Syndrome.