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Fake news is everywhere. The power of the press is said to be waning. And because the nation's most famous populist—the man with his sights on the presidency—can't trust the lying media, he says, he has no option but to be a publisher himself.
Oh yeah, and the year is 1896.
The would-be president in question is William Jennings Bryan. In an era before the internet, television, or radio, the best way to reach the masses is with newsprint. So, without the option of tweeting his grievances after losing the election to William McKinley, what does Bryan do? He starts his own newspaper. And he uses it to rail against "fake news."
I don't need to tell you a lot of this sounds weirdly familiar.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/01/the-fake-news-crisis-120-years-ago/513710/
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 29 2017, @07:52PM
I FIGURED IT OUT!
The reason all the Trump supporters (or anti-lib crowd who might have voted for someone else) are so bent out of shape is because they know they lost the popular vote. They all KNOW that Democracy has become a sham, and they desperately want to be seen as legitimate. The tide is against you all, hopefully the baby doesn't get thrown out with the bathwater and we can take the good parts of modern conservatism and mix them with the good parts of progressive policies.
But until then, enjoy your false victory and false sense of security. Bigoted and generally nasty attitudes will not magically be accepted just because we elected a president with the emotional level of a 5 year old. All the nasty shit that will be done in the next four years will hopefully just accelerate the evolution of the conservative base once they see what their wishes actually do when they meet reality.
Keep raging, keeping calling everyone else butthurt, your bullshit won't look any different in the morning.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 29 2017, @11:21PM
Right, right, because this totally never happened before in living memory.
Except, you know, 2000.
The tide is against .... whom exactly? I mean, look at some of the whitewash elections we've seen over the last 100 years. They've gone to the republicans, to the democrats, and guess what? The great tide of history ebbed and flowed.
If anyone's illustrating sadness, rage and butthurt, I'd have to say it's you.
And I don't even like Trump. I didn't vote for him. I didn't want him.