If the news is fake, here's a look at how and why it got that way

Note: This turned out about three times longer than I expected. I was tasked with writing just about "fake news," but the article expanded into how and why news became thought of as "fake."

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So Donald Trump called the "fake news media" the enemy of the American people.

I couldn't agree more.

With the words, at least. My guess is that the man I call Trumpers doesn't mean the same thing I mean by "fake news media." Still, I give him credit for getting the subject out there so we can attack a very real problem.

Fake news.

Too much media.

Too much entertainment.

Too much talk about rights and too little talk about responsibilities.