During President Donald Trump’s first term in office, the phrase “fake news” has become somewhat of a cultural phenomenon. The President has routinely elicited audible shudders among activist journalists in response to their biased rounds of questioning, and they would scurry back to their desks to warn us of the second coming of Hitler.
Trump was right. Fake news is real, and the legacy media are often the source. However, one problem is that Trump often applied the “fake news” label to any story, whether it was true or not, fair or not, partisan or not. Sometimes, Trump rejected active media malfeasance with pin-point accuracy. Sometimes, he rejected reasonable and accurate questions as indicative of the same deceitful media he campaigned against in 2016.
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