Two part posting, part two.
Two part posting, part two.
tl;dr - "Fake" is not a relative term.
While there is an interesting discussion, here, of a newspaper looking at a suit and the pros and cons and historical context of this, it seems that we have reached new lows in the verbal prevarication of politicians.
To wit, the CO Rep Maj leader seems to feel that fake news is relative (unless he is being misquoted, always possible).
"What it means to one person might be different than another," said Holbert. "Are stories made up entirely out of whole cloth? In this instance, it seems like there are differing perspectives on the same reality. This really seems to be rather unnecessary."
I don't know if it's a good idea for the paper to sue, or not, but political leaders need to stand up and lead. All the majority leader had to say was that it really isn't appropriate to have a 140 character "discussion" on twitter, and that there are people who support the bill and people who have concerns and at the moment the bill is delayed and those are the available facts. Nobody made anything up, the only disagreements are about the substance of the bill and when and if it will get a hearing. The end.
If it was a question of getting facts wrong, it isn't fake, it's false, which is different. False is untrue and may or may not be intended to deceive. Fake is intended to deceive. Used this way, it is, as is constantly being noted, intended to delegitimize. It has neither a true nor false value. It has no value.
The Senator (not the majority leader) who tweeted about "fake news" doesn't want to move the bill in question forward, he doesn't like being called out for it, so he resorts to bullying on twitter. Why he doesn't simply ignore it or no comment it is beyond me, but if you have to lead children, lead them. Don't reward and encourage their bad behaviors or even participate in them.
http://www.npr.org/2017/02/17/515760101/when-a-politician-says-fake-news-and-a-newspaper-threatens-to-sue-back
http://www.npr.org/2017/02/17/515760101/when-a-politician-says-fake-news-and-a-newspaper-threatens-to-sue-back
tl;dr - "Fake" is not a relative term.
While there is an interesting discussion, here, of a newspaper looking at a suit and the pros and cons and historical context of this, it seems that we have reached new lows in the verbal prevarication of politicians.
To wit, the CO Rep Maj leader seems to feel that fake news is relative (unless he is being misquoted, always possible).
"What it means to one person might be different than another," said Holbert. "Are stories made up entirely out of whole cloth? In this instance, it seems like there are differing perspectives on the same reality. This really seems to be rather unnecessary."
I don't know if it's a good idea for the paper to sue, or not, but political leaders need to stand up and lead. All the majority leader had to say was that it really isn't appropriate to have a 140 character "discussion" on twitter, and that there are people who support the bill and people who have concerns and at the moment the bill is delayed and those are the available facts. Nobody made anything up, the only disagreements are about the substance of the bill and when and if it will get a hearing. The end.
If it was a question of getting facts wrong, it isn't fake, it's false, which is different. False is untrue and may or may not be intended to deceive. Fake is intended to deceive. Used this way, it is, as is constantly being noted, intended to delegitimize. It has neither a true nor false value. It has no value.
The Senator (not the majority leader) who tweeted about "fake news" doesn't want to move the bill in question forward, he doesn't like being called out for it, so he resorts to bullying on twitter. Why he doesn't simply ignore it or no comment it is beyond me, but if you have to lead children, lead them. Don't reward and encourage their bad behaviors or even participate in them.
http://www.npr.org/2017/02/17/515760101/when-a-politician-says-fake-news-and-a-newspaper-threatens-to-sue-back
http://www.npr.org/2017/02/17/515760101/when-a-politician-says-fake-news-and-a-newspaper-threatens-to-sue-back
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