Until May 9, 2018, nobody actually knew what “fake news” was, if it was falsified information or information that painted Trump in a negative light. It’s been codified in the American brain as two words to be immediately dismissed, because Trump tends to say a lot of things he has yet to deliver.

Regarding the news media and their vastly different reports in pursuit of their own political agenda, Trump points both of his tiny index fingers at CNN and cries, “Fake news!” to the point where his shouts go unanswered by no one except the most right-leaning of conservatives.Īt this point in time, he overuses “fake news” to the point where it joins “build a wall” and “make America great again” in being a phrase solely associated with him. Trump and other conservatives turn away at any mention of CNN and Stormy Daniels, while liberals scoff at Fox News and make Instagram memes about Trump. In an ideal world, you would be able to get reliable news regardless of what your source is and where your political preferences lie, because news is news.īut news is always written from an angle, and ever since the wild election of 2016, the stories reported by news media have been so biased to the point where it seems liberal and conservatives are writing entirely different narratives, when in fact, the subject remains the same. CNN swings left, while Fox News swings right. It’s impossible to find an unbiased news source.