{"id":24577,"date":"2019-09-07T00:16:45","date_gmt":"2019-09-06T14:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=24577"},"modified":"2019-09-18T23:08:49","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T13:08:49","slug":"why-the-cnn-fake-news-others-are-a-major-threat-to-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=24577","title":{"rendered":"Why the CNN Fake News &#038; Others are a Major Threat to Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"440\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/PulitzerHearstWarYellowKids.jpg\" alt=\"Pulitzer vs Hearst\" class=\"wp-image-24578\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/PulitzerHearstWarYellowKids.jpg 440w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/PulitzerHearstWarYellowKids-300x205.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We think of false information as a domestic problem that Trump is in the battle with CNN and the term \u201cfake news\u201d is just political talk. It\u2019s far more dangerous than that. The history books confirm that the Spanish American War was created by the press falsely reporting an attack that never took place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-wordpress wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-armstrong-economics\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"RUKgSBrkG8\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.armstrongeconomics.com\/world-news\/press\/why-the-cnn-fake-news-others-is-a-major-threat-to-democracy\/\">Why the CNN Fake News &#038; Others are a Major Threat to Democracy<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Why the CNN Fake News &#038; Others are a Major Threat to Democracy&#8221; &#8212; Armstrong Economics\" src=\"https:\/\/www.armstrongeconomics.com\/world-news\/press\/why-the-cnn-fake-news-others-is-a-major-threat-to-democracy\/embed\/#?secret=V5AxfTMaPq#?secret=RUKgSBrkG8\" data-secret=\"RUKgSBrkG8\" width=\"525\" height=\"296\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We think of false information as a domestic problem that Trump is in the battle with CNN and the term \u201cfake news\u201d is just political talk. It\u2019s far more dangerous than that. The history books confirm that the Spanish American War was created by the press falsely reporting an attack that never took place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24579,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24577\/revisions\/24579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}