Election Day is also a referendum on Trump's era of 'fake news'

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Brian Stelter
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No matter what happens in the 2020 election, this chapter of American history could well be called the "fake news age." So I went back to the beginning... to the "fake" origins...

Election Day is also a referendum on Trump's era of 'fake news'
If Joe Biden prevails next week, it will be -- among a hundred other things -- a repudiation of President Trump's real-is-fake, down-is-up rhetoric.
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1:40 PM · Oct 30, 2020

https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/30/media/fake-news-age/index.html

New York (CNN Business)No matter what happens in the 2020 election, this chapter of American history could well be called the "fake news age."

One moment on January 11, 2017 crystallized it: When Trump pointed at CNN's Jim Acosta and said out loud, for the very first time, "you are fake news."

Acosta was trying to ask a perfectly reasonable question about Trump and Russia. The president-elect was cornered, and he responded with the "fake news" slur.

The presidential election is either a rejection of the Trump years or a four-more-years reaffirmation. If Joe Biden prevails, it will be — among a hundred other things -- a repudiation of the real-is-fake, down-is-up dynamic that has distorted American politics.

So it's an opportune time to take stock of what has changed in the past four years.
Trump bashed the media all throughout his 2016 campaign, but what he lacked was a "build the wall" type slogan. That's why January 11 was a turning point. Everything since — all the anti-media attacks and pro-Trump propaganda campaigns and Covid-19 denialism and assertions that you shouldn't believe your own eyes and ears — is rooted in Trump's "fake news" statement.

Trump weaponized a term that already existed and turned it into a bumper sticker, an insult, a punchline. In effect he challenged every American to choose: Do you believe me or the press corps? He gave his fans an escape hatch, an all-purpose excuse, a rationalization for every bad bit of news: It's "fake." Or at least it could be, so don't stray from the pack, just trust your president and Sean Hannity and The Gateway Pundit.

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1. No. Deflect this.

The republican slime are not to slink away.