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With ‘Fake News,’ Trump Moves From Alternative Facts To Alternative Language

Author:     Danielle Kurtzleben
Source:     npr
Publication Date:     February 17, 20178:27 PM ET
 Link: With ‘Fake News,’ Trump Moves From Alternative Facts To Alternative Language
Stephan:   Winston Churchill once described the U.S. and the U.K. as two nations separated by a common language. Based on the conversations I have been having -- and compare mine with ones you are having --  I think that can be rephrased to say, that the Blue value world and the Red value world, are two realities separated by a common language.  

Friday night, President Trump took to Twitter to deliver one of his favorite insults to journalists: “The FAKE NEWS media (failing @nytimes, @NBCNews, @ABC, @CBS, @CNN) is not my enemy, it is the enemy of the American People!” he wrote.

It’s a phrase President Trump has now tweeted 15 times this month (10 times in all caps). He used the phrase seven times in his Thursday news conference.

Anyone who has followed the news knows this isn’t what “fake news” meant just a few months ago. Back then, it meant lies posing as news, made up by people from Macedonian teenagers to a dad in the Los Angeles suburbs. The stories impacted the election to some unmeasurable degree, and they also presented a tangible threat when a gunman inspired by false stories fired shots inside Washington pizza restaurant Comet Ping Pong.

Now, Trump casts all unfavorable news coverage as fake news. In one tweet, he even went […]

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