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The term "fake news" has been weaponized with the goal of undermining public trust in news media. [155] President Donald Trump seized on the term "fake news" [161] [162] as a way of denigrating any story or outlet critical of him, even appearing to claim to have invented the term [163] and handing out so-called "Fake News Awards" in 2017. [164]
Fake news websites are those which intentionally, but not necessarily solely, publish hoaxes and disinformation for purposes other than news satire. Some of these sites use homograph spoofing attacks , typosquatting and other deceptive strategies similar to those used in phishing attacks to resemble genuine news outlets.
Breaking news, also called late-breaking news, a special report, special coverage, or a news flash, is a current issue that warrants the interruption of a scheduled broadcast in order to report its details. News broadcasters also use the term for continuing coverage of events of broad interest to viewers, attracting accusations of sensationalism.
CNN has often been the subject of allegations of party bias. The New York Times has described its development of a partisan lean during the tenure of Jeff Zucker. [1] In research conducted by the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University and the Project for Excellence in Journalism, the authors found disparate treatment by CNN of Republican and Democratic ...
In honor of the Breaking Bad finale’s 10th anniversary (on Sept. 29), TVLine is celebrating the series’ real hero: Skyler White. Anna Gunn’s Skyler received plenty of criticism during the ...
Fox News apologized for fabricated quotes attributed to John Kerry in an article on its website during the 2004 presidential campaign, [310] stating that the piece was a joke which accidentally appeared on the website. [311] Fox News aired a segment celebrating a 14-year-old transgender boy in California. Several conservative commentators ...
It's hard to say why this flu season is particularly intense, the experts note. It could be due to a combination of factors, says Yancey. “This (flu season) just feels much longer. ...
[30] Many other news media commentators have also criticized the view from nowhere in journalism. [33] Writer Elias Isquith argues in a 2014 article for Salon that "the view from nowhere not only leads to sloppy thinking but actually leaves the reader less informed than she would be had she simply read an unapologetically ideological source or ...