It’s time to retire the tainted term ‘fake news’

Why would we want to retire a term that so accurately describes what ABC, CNS, MSNBC, CBS, CNN, The New York Times, The Washington Post and so many others who populate the Main-Stream Media generate. They've even come up with terms like "Progressives" and "liberals" so that our ears aren't hurt by the words that would describe them correctly, such as "communists", "socialists" or "fascists". Now, what I think that we DO want to do is to insure that those who are experts and have long experience in generating fake news, like the aforementioned networks and newspapers, DON'T GET to determine what is fake news and what isn't. By the way, my own personal term to refer to those networks and "news"papers is PRAVDA.

One person's fake news is another's propaganda. To be fair all journalism is opinion. Always has been. Always will. The problem today has been exacerbated by the failure of so many "news" sources. Print news is slow and stale before it reaches the consumer. Broadcast news is expensive, too expensive to support many competing sources in the same market and the Progressive Movement won the race to dominate the few survivors. How? They began by indoctrinating journalists in college. Before they were ever entrusted with one column inch in a newspaper or even ten seconds of air time, they were taught the narrative that they were going to report and how to bend all news to fit it. Thus, it doesn't matter who owns the news media, the news will be reported by ideologues intent on preaching the approved narrative. That's why all news is fake. The only real news is the raw video posted on the Internet who happen upon it with their smart phones in hand. And, again to be fair, they are reporting news, they're just sharing their one-sided view of an event. It's up to consumers to decipher it. But, hasn't that always been true? Sadly, the Progressive Movement can't allow us to interpret news for ourselves. We just might figure out that not everything fits their narrative.

When it works to promote the liberal agenda it is perfectly fine to use, but when it is used call their leftist agenda it's time to retire the saying.