Papers which are members of the watchdog can use it, despite the fact that many outlets have already been accused of spreading false news stories.Trump, asked for comment on his use of the exhortation, said through a spokeswoman on Tuesday night, “It’s said from the heart with emphasis!” READ MORE: True journalism is about facts and evidence… except when it’s about Russian meddlingĪs the struggle to determine what’s real and what’s not continues, the UK’s press regulator has developed a log to fight fake news. One rather unorthodox take on misreporting has been voiced by the editor of The Atlantic, who told CNN Monday, that factually inaccurate reports are simply a by-product of fighting Trump’s “system of lies,” and that such mistakes are “precisely the reason people should trust the media.” From CNN to ABC News, the list of guilty media outlets is anything but small. RT recently took the liberty of compiling some of the worst offenders when it comes to Kremlin-bashing. The journalist admitted he "got it wrong," but noted that the photo was on his personal account, not the Washington Post's.īut of course, fake news wouldn’t be fake news if Russia and its alleged meddling claims are not woven into the fabric somehow. "Packed to the rafters," the caption said, referencing a previous tweet by Trump which said the "arena was packed to the rafters, the crowd was loud." The reporter apologized on Twitter after Trump demanded he do so. “CNN apologized a little while ago,” Trump said during a Pensacola rally last Friday, adding that CNN “should’ve been apologizing for the last two years.” Three CNN journalists were also forced to resign over the summer following the retraction of a story on an alleged Congress investigation into a “Russian investment fund with ties to Trump officials.”Ī Washington Post reporter also apologized to the president over the weekend after tweeting a photo of an empty venue ahead of a rally in Pensacola, Florida. Read more From bombshell to dud: CNN botches report on Trump, WikiLeaks “We’re not fake news!” the CNN journalist shouts from behind bars. In February, the late-night comedy show famously featured a sketch of former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer – played by Melissa McCarthy – putting CNN in “jail” for misbehaving. It's been turned into everyday vocabulary, and has become a running joke on Saturday Night Live. Like it or not, Trump’s use of the phrase has undeniably made waves across the US and the rest of the world. Donald Trump uses it about real news he does not like," Egeberg said, as quoted by NRK. "The expression has become very well known in a short period of time, but at the same time it has been broken and twisted by the American president. The adoption of the expression “fake news” hasn't been accepted by everyone, though, including Kristoffer Egeberg, the head of faktisk.no, a site which aims to fact-check news and prevent the spread of fictional messages. The process of selecting the word or phrase also involves data from major national and regional newspapers. It can be completely new, or a modern word which has made an impact on the year's vocabulary. The Language Council of Norway, in conjunction with Norwegian School of Economics professor, Gisle Andersen, identifies a new word or phrase to be recognized each year.
Major lies written, then forced to be withdrawn after they are exposed.a stain on America!- Donald J. They are out of control - correct reporting means nothing to them. Very little discussion of all the purposely false and defamatory stories put out this week by the Fake News Media. "Another false story, this time in the failing that I watch 4-8 hours of television a day – wrong! Also, I seldom, if ever, watch CNN or MSNBC, both of which I consider fake news…," Trump tweeted Monday. Trump propelled “fake news” into the spotlight during his campaign, and as president, he continues to use it on a weekly, sometimes daily, basis. “It is a word that has set the agenda and was given a lot of attention during the 2016 US election, and that attention has continued,” language researcher Bente Karlsnes told broadcaster NRK. He added the term was "the most used new word amongst this year's (US presidential) candidates." “The word is not completely new, but its use has exploded over the last year,” language researcher Ole Vage, a senior advisor to the Language Council of Norway told the NTB news outlet. The phrase "fake news" has now been formally recognized by the country's Language Council, which cited its recent "explosion."
Norway has adopted a new term into its official lexicon, inspired by the one and only Donald Trump.