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What Is Fake News?

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🗓️ 11 January 2019

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

What is fake news? Is Donald Trump correct when he says CNN, The New York Times, and other mainstream outlets report fake news? Commentator and bestselling author Andrew Klavan explains.

Transcript

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0:00.0

You've probably heard a lot of people recently screaming and yelling about fake news.

0:05.7

Charges fly from all points on the political spectrum.

0:08.8

This story is mistaken.

0:10.1

It's fake news.

0:11.2

That statement is incorrect.

0:12.8

It's fake news.

0:14.1

But to my mind, these arguments miss the point.

0:17.5

Mainstream American news is all fake because the major news outlets are so consistently biased

0:23.7

toward the left.

0:24.7

So whether any given story they report is factual or not, their overall reportage is essentially

0:30.3

leftist propaganda.

0:32.2

You can complain about the right-wing slant of Fox News all you want, but left-wing

0:36.1

ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, and CNN have combined almost ten times the viewers.

0:44.3

Look, the chief journalist at ABC is former Clinton operative George Stephanopoulos.

0:49.4

The president of CBS News is David Rhodes, the brother of a former senior Obama staffer.

0:54.6

Tom Cast, which owns NBC, is run by a major Democrat donor, saying for the leadership at

1:00.0

CBS and Time Warner, which owns CNN.

1:04.0

Only 7% of American journalists identify as Republican.

1:08.1

And while a lot of news outlets forbid their reporters to donate to candidates, 96% of

1:13.7

those who did donate last time out gave to Hillary Clinton.

1:18.2

These journalists claim that despite the fact they're all Democrats, they can be objective.

1:22.8

It's just ain't so.

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