Non-Universal Untruth

(It’s not what’s reported; it’s what’s repeated.)

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Well, America, here we go again. As our celebrity-obsessed culture ceaselessly searches for ways to out-silly each other, we have a new euphemism. From now on, lying will no longer be called lying.

Lying is now known as “fake news.”

Fake news. Heck, the term itself is fake. In the radio/television/newspaper world, “news” means stuff that’s happened since the last time we told you about stuff that happened. You can’t have fake news...