{"id":22683,"date":"2017-02-08T14:57:53","date_gmt":"2017-02-08T19:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=22683"},"modified":"2017-02-08T14:57:53","modified_gmt":"2017-02-08T19:57:53","slug":"16-fake-news-stories-reporters-have-run-since-trump-won","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=22683","title":{"rendered":"16 Fake News Stories Reporters Have Run Since Trump Won"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"aside-header-wrapper\">\n<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a title=\"16 Fake News Stories Reporters Have Run Since Trump Won\" href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2017\/02\/06\/16-fake-news-stories-reporters-have-run-since-trump-won\/\">16 Fake News Stories Reporters Have Run Since Trump Won<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"subtitle\">Journalists, media types, reporters, you have two choices: you can fix these problems, or you can watch your profession go down in flames.<\/p>\n<p>Since at least Donald Trump\u2019s election, our media have been in the grip of an astonishing, self-inflicted crisis. Despite Trump\u2019s constant railing against the American press, there is no greater enemy of the American media than the American media. They did this to themselves.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content long clearfix\">\n<p>We are in the midst of an epidemic of fake news. There is no better word to describe it than \u201cepidemic,\u201d insofar as it fits the epidemiological model from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/ophss\/csels\/dsepd\/ss1978\/lesson1\/section11.html\">the Centers for Disease Control:<\/a>\u00a0this phenomenon occurs when \u201can agent and susceptible hosts are present in adequate numbers, and the agent can be effectively conveyed from a source to the susceptible hosts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cagent\u201d in this case is hysteria over Trump\u2019s presidency, and the \u201csusceptible hosts\u201d are a slipshod, reckless, and breathtakingly gullible media class that spread the hysteria around like\u2014well, like a virus.<\/p>\n<p>It is difficult to adequately sum up the breadth of this epidemic, chiefly because it keeps growing: day after day, even hour after hour, the media continue to broadcast, spread, promulgate, publicize, and promote fake news on an industrial scale. It has become a regular part of our news cycle, not distinct from or extraneous to it but a\u00a0<em>part\u00a0<\/em>of it, embedded within the news apparatus as a spoke is embedded in a bicycle wheel.<\/p>\n<p>Whenever you turn on a news station, visit a news website, or check in on a journalist or media personality on Twitter or Facebook, there is an excellent chance you will be exposed to fake news. It is rapidly becoming an accepted part of the way the American media are run.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>16 Fake News Stories Reporters Have Run Since Trump Won Journalists, media types, reporters, you have two choices: you can fix these problems, or you can watch your profession go down in flames. Since at least Donald Trump\u2019s election, our media have been in the grip of an astonishing, self-inflicted crisis. 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