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  1. Report from my highly liberal suburban NY family: Everyone in my family has more degrees than I do and none of them could define fake news.
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      I wish I could say the increasing jujitsu commentators are using to turn the fake news moniker back on to mainstream media was surprising.
      1. …in reply to @Chronotope
        It isn't. It was so obvious that this was coming. A poorly defined, badly domain-ed overused term with easy slant connotations? Of course.
        1. …in reply to @Chronotope
          The only people who properly understand what we intend to say with "fake news" in media-land are people in media-land.
          1. …in reply to @Chronotope
            I don't much truck with the 'media in a bubble' bit for the election, but for this 'fake news' mess? Yeah. Now it bites us in the ass.
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              Just remember. I wanted to call it 'content fraud'.
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                We're not just making it worse for ourselves in the media, we're making it worse and doubling down on that. niemanlab.org/2016/12/the-people-running-the-media-are-the-problem/


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