American reporters are hardly less safe because of President Donald Trump's hyperbole.
I smiled when I first heard him use the phrase, not because news stories are "Fake"-they typically aren't-but because so much of what people call "News" is press releases and breathless exaggerations of isolated problems.
Alumni officials asked me to join a panel titled "Free Speech and Fake News.".
We reporters are good at covering plane crashes and murder.
The biggest news, like changing attitudes about gender, happens all over the place.
Instead, images of the Exxon Valdez oil spill dominated the news that year, helping spark a decade of exaggerated environmental fears.
In 1994, the Rwandan genocide did get news coverage, as it should have, but Americans heard much more about O.J. Simpson.
https://reason.com/2019/08/07/forget-fake-news-the-real-problem-is-stupid-news/
I smiled when I first heard him use the phrase, not because news stories are "Fake"-they typically aren't-but because so much of what people call "News" is press releases and breathless exaggerations of isolated problems.
Alumni officials asked me to join a panel titled "Free Speech and Fake News.".
We reporters are good at covering plane crashes and murder.
The biggest news, like changing attitudes about gender, happens all over the place.
Instead, images of the Exxon Valdez oil spill dominated the news that year, helping spark a decade of exaggerated environmental fears.
In 1994, the Rwandan genocide did get news coverage, as it should have, but Americans heard much more about O.J. Simpson.
https://reason.com/2019/08/07/forget-fake-news-the-real-problem-is-stupid-news/
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