This whole ‘fake news’ scandal is starting to bug me.. People are still falling for ‘fake news’ just as easily as they did a year ago. Nothing in that avenue has changed..
The concerning part is this newfound approach to dealing with media.. the INTERCEPT is one of my favorite sites, and they back up some of my fears: The shady “McCarthyism” approach to website shaming, by claiming that places like the Drudge Report are Russian-fake news sites.
I get it.. some are alt-right, wherever that term arose from this year I don’t quite yet know.. But there are also some very average ho-hum websites on there.. And suddenly, they are literally blacklisted
On the free web!
On the information superhighway..
On a place where I thought everyone had and SHOULD HAVE a voice!?
Yes indeed.. this crackdown on ‘fake news’ is going well beyond click bait.
Both sides are trying to brandish the other as fake.
Information, in the mean time, is suffering.
The Drudge Report is as perfectly fine as the Raw Story or Buzzflash–I visit all three sites on a regular basis. And in no way do I want them ‘banned.’
This rise of newfound 1984-style media shaming is going to become an Orweilian nightmare.
Welcome to the new America.
