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Not just the DNC: The Washington Post, New York Times, MSNBC, CBS News, CNN, BuzzFeed. It seemed like many news directors briefly had a public mea culpa moment
by ghostcluster 9y ago
Not just the DNC: The Washington Post, New York Times, MSNBC, CBS News, CNN, BuzzFeed.
It seemed like many news directors briefly had a public mea culpa moment after the election, but then decided to abandon that and launched full steam into the "fake news" narrative a few days later.
Look at that term's Google Trend curve. November 13, 2016 initial spike and it hasn't left us: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=2016-01-01%202017-11-19&q=fake%20news https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=2016-01-01%202...