But we obviously had fake news before the 1890s, so what did we call it? There was doubtless a wide range of expressions that people have resorted to when they felt the need to indicate that the newspapers had been fibbing, but one of the most common ones was false news. Fake was little used as an adjective prior to the late 18th century. One of the reasons that fake news is such a recent addition to our vocabulary is that the word fake is also fairly young. The public taste is not really vitiated and it does not in its desire for ‘news’ absolutely crave for distortions of facts and enlargements of incidents and it certainly has no genuine appetite for ‘fake news’ and ‘special fiend’ decoctions such as were served up by a local syndicate a year or two ago. The Kearney Daily Hub (Kearney, NE), 7 Jul. As can be proved by more than one, we did not so much as get our feet wet, nor were we helped into the Neptune. The following is handed to us for publication: Sunday’s Enterprise says that I and a companion were run over by the Neptune and thrown into the water. Cincinnati Commercial Tribune (Concinnati, OH), 7 Jun. Secretary Brunnell Declares Fake News About His People is Being Telegraphed Over the Country. Fake news appears to have begun seeing general use at the end of the 19th century. However, when we say that an English word is “new,” we are using a broader meaning of that word than if we were to refer to, say, a musical genre. The printing and dissemination of spurious news is hardly new, but the term fake news is. That means it's only about 125 years old.
However, as seen in the last of the three citations given above, it is by no means restricted to politics, and seems to have currency in terms of general news. 2017įake news is frequently used to describe a political story which is seen as damaging to an agency, entity, or person. Paul Hirst, The Times (London, UK), 22 Mar. The Arsenal manager told BeIN Sports: "It is a false rumour, that is what you call 'fake news'. Wenger yesterday denied that he had been offered a contract by Paris Saint-Germain. Paul Farhi, The Washington Post, 23 Mar. Not blunt enough? In mid-February, following Trump's freewheeling news conference, Smith labeled Trump's responses "absolutely crazy." He even - horror of horrors! - defended CNN, Fox's mortal enemy, when Trump blasted it as "fake news" during another news conference. It also said this week that a French media report alleging Fillon was paid to arrange introductions to Putin was "fake news”. The Kremlin has denied meddling in the campaign.
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