Posts Tagged ‘News’

“Trump’s ‘Fake News Awards’ were a Huge Flop,” blared a Washington Post headline. According to the article, this is because many who tried to access the website where the President’s picks were listed were met with an error message. Also, the Post concluded that the President had “no plan,” which resulted in his choosing reports…

Having experienced an unprecedented usage increase of 365% since 2016, “fake news” is the Collins English Dictionary’s 2017 word of the year.[1] Although officially defined as “false, often sensational, information disseminated under the guise of news reporting,”[2] fake news has come to mean many things in the year 2017. Headlines such as “Death Row Inmate…