Fake news

I'm trying to remember the first time I heard the expression FAKE NEWS and since one should give credit where credit is due I'm fairly certain our esteemed leader used it during the campaign of 2016.

OF COURSE there is a history lesson here and it's up to you to do the research.

Fake News

So as you've probably learned by now the term fake news has other names such as propaganda and yellow journalism.

Modern channels of communication have created an entirely new brand of fake news.

Of course for a long period of time in our country there was only print media and unless one made flyers, information was only available through a newspaper....and of course letter writing but that was probably confined to personal matters.

And if you stop and think about it....from 1776 to 1910
THERE WAS ONLY PRINT MEDIA

Books and pamphlets were printed but if anyone wanted actual news  during those years they had to read a newspaper or listen to someone who talked to someone who talked to someone.  By the time the story moved along the information highway of people talking to people the facts generally became something entirely different.

Newsreels appeared in 1910 which could be viewed if one went to movie theaters.

Wikipedia
Created in 1911 by Charles Pathé, this form of film was a staple of the typical North American, British, and Commonwealthcountries (especially Canada, Australia, and New Zealand), and throughout European cinema programming schedule from the silent era until the 1960s when television news broadcasting completely supplanted its role. The National Film and Sound Archive in Australia holds the Cinesound Movietone Australian Newsreel Collection, a comprehensive collection of 4,000 newsreel films and documentaries representing news stories covering all major events.

The advent of radio in 1920 opened up an entirely new avenue with which to create fake news


Today the amount of channels for creating information, whether it be true or false, appear to be infinite.

Ok........maybe infinite is a blatant exaggeration very much in line with today's topic but I'm sure you get the point.

Now what you do with that point is either ignore it or expand upon it and perhaps just alter it a little bit here and there until it fits your brand of information storage.

Trump does get credit for making the term fake news......news.

Wikipedia
During and after his presidential campaign and election, Donald Trump popularized the term "fake news" when he used it to describe the negative press coverage of himself.^[14][15] In part as a result of Trump's use of the term, the term has come under increasing criticism, and in October 2018 the British government decided that it will no longer use the term because it is "a poorly-defined and misleading term that conflates a variety of false information, from genuine error through to foreign interference in democratic processes."^[16]

I salute the British for stepping up and trying to reduce the use of the term but then again the Brits are usually a few steps ahead when it come to civility.  The Canadians and Brits really do have the manners thing down pat.

What is now required of anyone who wishes to be informed is RESEARCH, RESEARCH and more RESEARCH.

If you listen or watch one source you are not informed.

AND THAT MY FRIENDS IS NOT FAKE NEWS
and I shall repeat this very important message.

IF YOU ONLY LISTEN TO
OR WATCH 
ONE SOURCE

YOU
ARE
NOT
INFORMED

It seems we have a tremendous amount of voters in this country who only listen to one source or perhaps don't listen to any source and only watch game shows on television.

Am I feeding you a line of bull or do you actually think I might be right?

I'm not sure how else one would explain that 50 million people still regard our current administration as a viable answer to the betterment of America.

His administration's viewpoint on Climate Change and how they are altering and eliminating the Clean Air and Clean Water initiatives put in place over the last 20 years
should 
be
reason enough to 
say
SYLMF 
(see ya later are the first three words and I'm sure you can figure out the other two)

And in conclusion I give credit to Donald J. Trump for making the term Fake News relevant in today's media frenzy world.

I remember the old adage......"it takes one to know one" 

No one knows fake news better than Mr. Fake News himself.

He is the Master of the genre.

But his policies are detrimental to the health of Americans
and
that's
not
fake news....it's sad news.

Michael Timothy McAlevey