Would-be dictators suppressing "fake news" and white house ok with it.
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You have to admit, though, it's a brilliant strategy to denounce everything one does not like as fake. I would absolutely agree that there is plenty of news that Trump calls fake that is not fake.
However, if the main stream media hadn't been so complicit in trying to get Hillary elected, been caught with their pants down on a whole host of fake media stories, then this narrative would never have gotten any traction in the first place.
It is only because there have been such obvious, blatant examples of where the media was guilty of peddling propaganda that the fake news claim can even be used.
However, if the main stream media hadn't been so complicit in trying to get Hillary elected, been caught with their pants down on a whole host of fake media stories, then this narrative would never have gotten any traction in the first place.
It is only because there have been such obvious, blatant examples of where the media was guilty of peddling propaganda that the fake news claim can even be used.
Right. There is another issues with this beyond the damage Trump is doing to informed opinions, our ability to spread democracy and human rights is also dependent on the free flow of information and journalism.
We take our freedoms for granted but it took world wars to spread freedom and a free press to maintain and grow it. Nothing is static, things change. If we aren’t growing freedom and democracy then it is waning. The less freedom and democracy in the world the more ours is threatened.
There is a lot Trump doesn’t understand about statecraft, as we can all tell from his administration of the state department and his unrelenting war on the press. None of it is good.
It was a brilliantly evil counterattack of a serious problem no doubt.
Yeah . . . if Hillary had employed that strategy , would it have been called brilliant ?
Hitler drank water. Trump also drinks water. That means Trump is doing the same things as Hitler, so Trump is literally Hitler! - CNN
For Hillary to have employed such a strategy, the media would have had to support Trump (both openly and secretly) and posted bad/false things about Hillary regularly. In what universe would that have happened?
And we've done so fucking well in international relations since WWII, haven't we? I mean, it's not like we put our nose where it doesn't belong.