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The definition of news is "newly received or noteworthy information, especially about recent or important events." If your news is about events that never happ
by ghostbrainalpha 9y ago
The definition of news is "newly received or noteworthy information, especially about recent or important events."
If your news is about events that never happened, and not just biased towards one particular ideology but completely fictional, it shouldn't be considered news.
The Onion for example is fake news, not just an angle on particular information. I agree that this label is overused to describe REAL news that doesn't from a different point of view.
But completely fictional stories, made by papers that don't exist, that happen in towns that don't exist, about people that don't exist, made exclusively for profit, can't be included in your definition of "news".
- dragonwriter 9y ago> The Onion for example is fake news No, the Onion is overt satire. To be fake news, it would have to try to make you believe that it is news.
- fivestar 9y agoI might add that many times over the years notable people have mistaken Onion parody as real news.
- ghostbrainalpha 9y agoI've listened to Rush Limbaugh read satirical news, as real news on his Radio show before to get conservatives agitated. If it is ever pointed out by someone that the news isn't factual, he says that "it is true, in a deeper way, in that it expresses an important point about what is going on."