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The Fake News Media Complain About Fake News

The Fake News Media Complain About Fake News
By Todd Strandberg

The new buzz phrase of the left wing is “Fake News.” The defeat of Hillary Clinton is being blamed on websites being accused of publishing false news stories about her. To preserve the “integrity” of the obviously biased liberal news industry, there is a movement to red flag all sites that they falsely claim to promote hoaxes, propaganda or disinformation.

thefakenewsmediacomplainaboutfakenewsThere are sites that purposely post bogus news stories. The Onion is probably best known for fictitious “news” intention of being humorous. The left’s agenda is to try to silence opposing views. The liberal media claims to be the source of truth and all sites run by conservatives are bias in their news coverage.

Sites like MSNBC, Huffington Post, Slate, Mother Jones, and Think Progress are all partisan left outlets. You never see them on a “fake news” list because the liberal bias media has appointed itself as the gatekeeper of the Internet.

The arrogance of the left has no limit. When the president gave an interview to Rolling Stone magazine, he lamented the impact he believes so-called “fake news” had on the presidential election. It is pure irony for Obama to be lamenting about ‘fake news’ to a magazine that just lost in court after being sued for peddling a rape hoax.

The liberal media is following a standard socialist tacit: Blame the opposition for the same thing you’re doing. In October, Hillary Clinton was being investigated by the FBI for wrongdoing related to her emails and the Clinton Foundation. On one news service I counted 32 negative news stories about Trump, and there were zero negative news stories about Clinton. That is a good example of fake news and it is all being carried out by the liberal (progressive) left.

The greatest example of phony baloney media coverage occurred when Trump acted on this promise to save 1,000 jobs at the Indiana Carriers plant. The press could not hide their displeasure at having to report on Trump doing a good deed. Reporters for CNN were caught on a live feed joking about Trump’s plane crashing.

The topper of this story occurred in June when President Obama derided Trump for promising to save the Carrier jobs. He asked “What magic wand do you have?” This delicious news story never made is to the nightly news shows because we have a press that is heavily involved in the “fake news’ business.

The eagerness of the left to apply the alternative media with this “fake news” label has caused many of them to cross the line into defamation. The financial site, the Naked Capitalism has threatened The Washington Post with a defamation suit. The paper listed Naked Capitalism as a “fake news” site without providing any evidence for the claim.

Former Democratic National Committee chair Howard Dean called Breitbart News executive chairman, Stephen K. Bannon, a “Nazi” during a recent interview. Pressed on whether he meant to use such a damning term, Mr. Dean responded, “Well, he’s anti-Semitic, he’s anti-black and he’s anti-women.” If Bannon decided to take Dean to court for defamation, he would easily win the case.

Breitbart News is now the favorite target of the left simply because Bannon is president-elect Trump has named him as his chief strategist. So I guess Fox News can rest a bit easier.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has talked about creating a “fake news” filter for his social media site. He wants the majority of the news that gets posted on Facebook to come from a list of “trusted” sites. The firm already has a plug-in that blocks stories labeled as “fake news.”

Zuckerberg demonstrated the dangers of censorship when his own remarks on “fake news” were temporarily deleted from his own site.

Another way that liberals are going after conservative sites is by cutting off their ability to make money. Since nearly all news sites survive on ad revenue, “fake news” labeling can mean death. The Kellogg Company has stopped advertising on the Breitbart News website due to concerns about its content. If the Kellogg company doesn’t want anything to do with Hillary’s basket of deplorables, they should come right out and tell them to stop buying their products.

There is no logical reason why the left always has conservatives on the defense. A recent Gallup poll shows that trust in mainstream media fell to a record low 32 percent. Trust has been on the decline since 1972. The enemy controls the main media hubs, because the people on the right refuse to fight.

If the Kellogg company sales collapsed 20 percent because of a backlash boycott, Kellogg would be begging Breitbart to be its exclusive advertiser. If the same pressure would be applied to CNN, it would be renamed the Conservative Broadcasting Network.

Bible prophecy warns us that the day will come when there will be no freedom of the press. When the Antichrist system comes to power, all news will be fake. In the end, the only news that matters is the Good News of the saving grace that comes from those who put their trust in Jesus Christ.

“Now, brothers and sisters, I want you to remember the Good News I told you. You received that Good News message, and you continue to base your life on it. That Good News, the message you heard from me, is God’s way to save you” (1 Corinthians 15:1-2 ERV).

–Todd

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