But "fake" means it is knowingly manufactured _as untrue_ with political intent, no?
There is no, and never was, "perfect news." Pls stop referring to every mode of failure of news as "fake news". Conflation is not analysis.
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Most things of interest have a continuum with gray areas. Using that to lump everything into one giant meaningless category isn't nuance.
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Always good to be aware of history, continuum & context. But "nothing new here" and "it's all the same" are intellectual coma-inducers.
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Again, the reason fake news has gained purchase recently is bc of major fail at traditional media. They cannot be separated.
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And WaPo more than any other outlet has to live by the terms it has adopted. It failed its own fake news criteria here.
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I've written so much about traditional media failure in my life that I'd fight any attempt to dismiss them.
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Conflating different modes of failure disequips one to understand or fight any one—even when there's continuum.
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Yep. Conflation is often a way to deflect blame. "Who me?".
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