I told you this one was coming
Quote:Wielding Claims of ‘Fake News,’ Conservatives Take Aim at Mainstream Media
The C.I.A., the F.B.I. and the White House may all agree that Russia was behind the hacking that interfered with the election. But that was of no import to the website Breitbart News, which dismissed reports on the intelligence assessment as “left-wing fake news.”
Rush Limbaugh has diagnosed a more fundamental problem. “The fake news is the everyday news” in the mainstream media, he said on his radio show recently. “They just make it up.”
Some supporters of President-elect Donald J. Trump have also taken up the call. As reporters were walking out of a Trump rally this month in Orlando, Fla., a man heckled them with shouts of “Fake news!”
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Of course, "fake news" as a term refers to a specific new phenomenon where individuals or agencies purposefully place fake stories into media somewhere in order to 1) discredit someone/something or 2) to create a diversion through filling up the media space with noise or 3) to make money through clicks.
But anyone who has studied right wing media understands immediately that the term "fake news" would be morphed over by Breitbart or Limbaugh or Coulter or Hannity etc etc as a continuing means to derogate any media which isn't in their ideological camp.
The fundamental propaganda trick in here is to cast media as either/or. On one side, right wing media and on the other, left wing media. The notions of independence and objectivity MUST BE invalidated in order to isolate the right wing base in a closed-off learning/thinking environment. It is this propagandist thrust which has brought about the modern post-fact, post-science, post-truth phenomena we see broadly across the right now.