{"id":7141,"date":"2017-03-09T05:00:49","date_gmt":"2017-03-09T10:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/blog\/?p=7141"},"modified":"2025-03-31T15:44:26","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T18:44:26","slug":"495-fake-news-truth-vs-balance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/archives\/7141","title":{"rendered":"495 – Fake news\u2014The Left vs the truth"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Andrew

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It’s never been news that \u201cfake news\u201d exists. We used to call it \u201cfalse news.\u201d It has existed since the very concept of “news” itself first emerged. So why is “fake news” news now so newsworthy?<\/p>\n

There is a REAL news story here, and it’s not one you will hear from the establishment media – because the real story is about them. Their \u201cfake\u201d story lines start with Donald Trump. They continue with Donald Trump. And they end with Donald Trump. See the pattern?<\/strong><\/p>\n

A team of \u201cresearchers\u201d at Western University in London Ontario is about to launch a web site called \u201cCulling Out The Crud.\u201d They claim to have created a piece of software that can filter out \u201cfake news\u201d with an 85% accuracy rate. All very \u201cscientific,\u201d you see.<\/p>\n

And if you believe that one, our understanding is that the bridge in Brooklyn is still for sale; care to make us an offer?<\/p>\n

Says political scientist\/professor Matt Farrell: \u201cFake news has reinforced the narrative in the Trump ideology\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

Even though there is no such thing as a \u201cTrump ideology,\u201d they are nevertheless certain that their computer software can spot it and root it out. In practice, \u201cTrump ideology\u201d is a fake term created to mean \u201cany ideas from the Right.\u201d<\/p>\n

The debate about fake news \u2013 not the fake news itself \u2013 is a symptom of the Trump Derangement Syndrome.<\/strong><\/p>\n

For the real news fakers on the left (which includes many \u201cright wing\u201d lefties), fake news exclusively originates from the Right: Just blame Donald Trump. Just blame Alt Right. Just blame Breitbart. <\/p>\n

Those who are creating all the stories about “fake news” are the primary fakers themselves, and they have an agenda<\/strong>: \u201cLet\u2019s make sure that everyone irrationally hates Donald Trump so that we can defeat him in the next election.\u201d<\/p>\n

Today on Just Right, we offer our own samplings of fake news – from the establishment media \u2013 that we have ourselves repeatedly witnessed and experienced first hand.<\/p>\n

In the end, “fake news” is no news; it is a social media phenomenon<\/strong>. It is the consequence of an established media that has found its own credibility under attack by the existence of alternate media sources. Most of them are not \u201cfake\u201d news outlets, but report the facts the left chooses to ignore for political purposes.<\/p>\n

In continuing to attack their competition as \u201cfake news\u201d sources, the establishment media is simply further losing the trust of an audience that has found alternate sources proven more reliable.<\/p>\n

Like Just Right.<\/p>\n

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  It’s never been news that \u201cfake news\u201d exists. We used to call it \u201cfalse news.\u201d It has existed since the very concept of “news” itself first emerged. So why is “fake news” news now so newsworthy? There is a REAL news story here, and it’s not one you will hear from the establishment media [Continue Reading]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7139,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,84,28,598],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-audio","category-journalism","category-latest","category-society","issues-fake-news","issues-journalism-2","category-12-id","category-84-id","category-28-id","category-598-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7141"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15315,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7141\/revisions\/15315"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}