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The REAL Fake News is Fake News It's roots probably began at the beginning of time...but in the last fifteen years that tree is bearing it's evil fruit. Defining "fake news"....Not as lies.....but as to the motivation for using the truth. When the truth or lie doesn't matter just the motivation... How can fake news be fake news if it's not a lie? If fake news depends on which political side your on.. then it all becomes fake news... Throughout our history, "the news" has tried to motivate...But since George W... It's grown, not only to new levels, but to be the modus operendi. How can we fault Russian interference.. when they are just doing what we are doing to ourselves. They are just giving US our own "fake news"..where motivation Trumps truth. Both the Left and the Right do it.....When the truth is not judged on it's own merits... but one's perceived motivation of the news teller. The beginning of the end, began with George W Bush.... political motivation became the order of the day to define the News.....At least it seems that way to Conservatives. Then came Obama..... and the Conservatives put the shoe on the other foot. Political motivation, became the definition of "the news' about Obama..How does the News motivate people...whether it was the truth didn't matter. So now with Trump..we go shoeless...It's all "fake news".. no matter which side your on. Is it by design, or an outgrowth of what has precede it? I'm not sure, but what I do know is Trump is using it......... If there can be no truth..There can be no lie. |
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It's simple... When the News doesn't do what you want it to do..It becomes fake news. We don't have to look any further than here. For myself I see it all the time, here... I write a blog that shows my distaste for Trump. I can say it, til cows come home . That my distaste is NOT politically motivated.... That the label of Liberal or conservative doesn't matter to me..I talk about him, not as a conservative, but as a person. I believe Trump to be evil..no matter his Label.. My political disagreements with him don't enter into it... BUT NOBODY BELIEVES ME.. The fact is.. I can't have a distaste for Trump. Even though Trump is a Liar, that's the News... that's the facts..but I can't say it...without it being politically motivated as soon as it hits the airwaves People here won't let me.. The Left will see it as I'm on their side, and the Right will see it, as I am against them.. and so what I say becomes politically motivated and "fake news"... Trump is a Liar... A self serving Liar... but what we hear all the time... is the "fake news".. that changes a word.. that makes it political......when those on the Left call Trump a "pathological" liar.. Does it matter, if Trump is pathological or not? Well, it does politically., and the political motivation..only allows it to become 'Fake News"
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So Trump LIES.. that's a fact... But can the motivation behind the lie..make it not a LIE? It would appear politically, both past and present, that to be an assume truth...Again if not by design then by our acceptance. Now comes the hard part.. If a lie can become... not a lie Then it's a slippery slope.. to an illogical conclusion....that the TRUTH can become,.. NOT the TRUTH. That's where we are at...and it's a bad place... So let me, Now, define my title.. The real Fake News.. is fake news.. Because what fake news has become...is a truth, that's not really the truth.
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