[Ads-l] "Fake news"

[Peter Reitan]

It's just possible that any time "news" outlets publish "news" demonstrably false it might conventionally be called "fake."

"Fake news," by that name, was a thing in the 1890s.
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The claim has just been made on Lights out with David Spade that Norm
McDonald originated the phrase, "fake news," when he was the anchor for the
Weekend Update "news" on Saturday Night Live.
 For real?
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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
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