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What is fake news? News that is cleqrly false? that seems unlikely or incredible? Is the line that easy to draw? Anyone on this forum who posted anything suggesting Trump was close in the month leading up to the election was shouted down mocked and ran out of politics threads with a new red title. If it was put to a vote, most of those guys would have said anyone predicting a Trump win was crazy, biased, or lying, when in fact they would have been correct. This false news thing is way less interesting and is a distraction from the real issue: a) that media is now incapable of serious, critical reporting of complex issues, and b) even if they were, no one trusts or listens to them or is interested in complexity Hunter S Thompson said in his time that traditional media had a blind spot to a crook like Nixon. Trump glided through that same blind spot albeit in a different way. While they were freaking out about pussy grabbing or whatever, their breathless reporting about every minute stupid thing the orange frog did while talking endlessly about emails and horse race enabled him while obscuring that they were doing so
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