{"id":3462,"date":"2019-04-07T04:49:09","date_gmt":"2019-04-07T04:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/64.156.26.201\/*sergneri.net\/httpdocs\/wordpress\/?p=3462"},"modified":"2019-04-07T05:13:37","modified_gmt":"2019-04-07T05:13:37","slug":"the-fake-news-fallacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/2019\/04\/07\/the-fake-news-fallacy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fake-News Fallacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the September 14, 2017 New Yorker, Adrian Chen wrote an essay on fake news. They use the byline &#8221; Old fights about radio have lessons for new fights about the Internet&#8221;. Naturally, this containing some radio history, I was interested in the points made.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The greatest organizers of mass hysterias and the mass delusions today are states using the radio to cite terrors, incite hatreds, inflame masses.&#8221; Dorothy Thompson, 1938<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2017\/09\/04\/the-fake-news-fallacy\">The New Yorker archives<\/a> has the article.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.newyorker.com\/photos\/599df7de04f6416db174780a\/master\/w_6000,c_limit\/170904_r30462.jpg\" alt=\"Fake News\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the September 14, 2017 New Yorker, Adrian Chen wrote an essay on fake news. They use the byline &#8221; Old fights about radio have lessons for new fights about the Internet&#8221;. Naturally, this containing some radio history, I was interested in the points made. &#8220;The greatest organizers of mass hysterias and the mass delusions &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/2019\/04\/07\/the-fake-news-fallacy\/\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13,14,17],"tags":[1930,1928,659,1929,1931,1932,1927,1926,1407],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-sergneri","4":"post-3462","6":"format-standard","7":"category-it-failures","8":"category-politics","9":"category-racism","10":"category-thinking-about","11":"post_tag-dorothy-thompson","12":"post_tag-father-charles-coughlin","13":"post_tag-fcc","14":"post_tag-huey-long","15":"post_tag-lyman-bryson","16":"post_tag-mae-west","17":"post_tag-nbc-radio","18":"post_tag-orson-wells","19":"post_tag-radio"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3462"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3464,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3462\/revisions\/3464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}