The Kremlin has been undermining Western news media by
labeling certain stories it doesn’t like as “fake news”. Stories that have been
labeled from The New York Times, NBC and Bloomberg because they supposedly a
part of an “information campaign against Russia.”
It’s a pretty sad state of affairs for news media in
America. The president himself has denounced an important part of the American
system. The news media is something that has been a part of America since its
founding and to have it be undermined and ostracized by both a domestic and
foreign power is quite interesting.
According to a Vice News story the Russian government has
put on its foreign ministry website a new page that is “exposing” media for spreading
false information about the country.
Having a phrase like “fake news” being used as an a excuse
to label a story that you don’t like is rather ridiculous. It’s the stuff of
novels, something that you would expect to happen in an Orwellian story.
The news is of course fallible especially with it being run
by human beings, mistakes will happen. The problem is having the entire
organization insulted by government forces simply because they dislike them.
https://news.vice.com/story/the-kremlin-is-literally-stamping-reports-it-doesnt-like-as-fake-news
http://www.mid.ru/en/nedostovernie-publikacii/-/asset_publisher/nTzOQTrrCFd0/content/id/2655982
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