| | :I am not opposed to moving Trump's tweet to the "Conservative response" section, but this article now has info about the president all in one area, making it convenient for readers. --[[User:1990'sguy|1990'sguy]] ([[User talk:1990'sguy|talk]]) 11:27, 7 April 2017 (EDT) | | :I am not opposed to moving Trump's tweet to the "Conservative response" section, but this article now has info about the president all in one area, making it convenient for readers. --[[User:1990'sguy|1990'sguy]] ([[User talk:1990'sguy|talk]]) 11:27, 7 April 2017 (EDT) |
| | ::Let me associate myself with the gentleman's comments above. And I would further add there is no way for Donald Trump or CNN to ever walk back his [https://youtu.be/1IDF-8khS3w calling CNN fske news at a press conference]. JDano's premise follows Hillary Clinton and the New York Times excuse for her loss. Fake news has been around for ever. According to polls, people under 35 hold [[Jon Stewart]] and the ''Daily Show'' in as high esteem as our parents held [[Walter Cronkite]] (only Stewart is funnier. btw, did you know, CBS's Moscow bureau chief, [[Bernard Redmont]], whom Cronkite introduced nitely while Americans were being killed at a rate of 100 per wk for ten solid years fighting the spread of Soviet communism, was a KGB agent? If that is not 'fake news,' what is?) [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|''CIA v Trump updated score'':CIA 3, Trump 2]]</sup> 13:11, 7 April 2017 (EDT) | | ::Let me associate myself with the gentleman's comments above. And I would further add there is no way for Donald Trump or CNN to ever walk back his [https://youtu.be/1IDF-8khS3w calling CNN fske news at a press conference]. JDano's premise follows Hillary Clinton and the New York Times excuse for her loss. Fake news has been around for ever. According to polls, people under 35 hold [[Jon Stewart]] and the ''Daily Show'' in as high esteem as our parents held [[Walter Cronkite]] (only Stewart is funnier. btw, did you know, CBS's Moscow bureau chief, [[Bernard Redmont]], whom Cronkite introduced nitely while Americans were being killed at a rate of 100 per wk for ten solid years fighting the spread of Soviet communism, was a KGB agent? If that is not 'fake news,' what is?) [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|''CIA v Trump updated score'':CIA 3, Trump 2]]</sup> 13:11, 7 April 2017 (EDT) |
| | + | :::I suggest we stick to the subject rather than moving off into politics. My understanding is that "fake news" was in widespread use before the 2016 election and referred to news items designed to appealing to the emotion of the reader to the point that the item would be spread without investigating the truth of the underlying item. While some fake new items were designed to appeal to liberals and others to conservatives, these "fake news" authors did not care. "Fake news" was also a problem in other parts of the world and was a way to drive up ISIS recruitment. We need to explain that problem and possible solutions at a high school reading level without assuming that the reader knows a lot about it. The purpose of Conservapedia is to write articles like that, not to re-argue the latest headlines. There is so many bad examples in the current article that the meaning of "fake news" is lost in a blur. Perhaps another editor can suggest a positive path forward. [[User:JDano|JDano]] ([[User talk:JDano|talk]]) 16:24, 7 April 2017 (EDT) |