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[RCP via ZH] (Submitted by Carl M. Cannon, Washington bureau chief for RealClearPolitics; John Maxwell Hamilton, author of "Manipulating the Masses: Woodrow Wilson and the Birth of American Propaganda" (LSU Press), discussed his new book with RealClearPolitics.)So "Fake News" isn’t something Donald Trump invented, is it? The phrase has been thrown around for a long time, predating Trump’s presidency by exactly 100 years.
More than a hundred years. A small book was published in 1914 on the subject, "Fakes in American Journalism." An 1897 book exposing sensational reporting of the Spanish-American War was called "Facts and Fakes About Cuba." In World War I, as today, the term "fake news" and its equivalents were put to many uses, some of them, paradoxically, to promote falsehoods.