Let's call 'fake news' what it really is: propaganda
Breitbart, Fox News, Alex Jones, and countless other conservative websites practice propaganda—or what is now called “fake news.” Of course you would not know that it’s propaganda because the mainstream media refuses to call it what it really is. Most of us (myself included) had never heard the term fake news until an innocent business targeted by the purveyors of this “fake news” created a wild fantasy, a hoax story that Hillary Clinton was running a child sex abuse ring from the basement of a D.C. pizza parlor. This was not fake news: it was propaganda.
[prop-uh-gan-duh]noun
- Information, ideas, or rumors deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement, institution, nation, etc.
- The deliberate spreading of such information, rumors, etc.
- The particular doctrines or principles propagated by an organization or movement.
If you look at the definition, it’s clear that the reports of a child abuse ring run by the Democratic presidential nominee from the basement of a pizza parlor certainly fit the very definition of propaganda (if not absolute insanity—seriously, who in their right mind could possibly believe this?).