Is the Fake News Really Fake?

Like every other political nut, I find myself inevitably drawn every day to the liberal echo chamber where I read all of the standard Fake News online outlets and try to form some opinions which then find themselves in some of the content which I post daily on Medium and sometimes on my own blog.

The problem with relying on digital news sources, however, is that such venues only earn enough money to stay alive if they draw users whose presence makes the particular website attractive for advertisers always looking for new and better locations on the internet to peddle their wares.

The fact that delivering the news is no longer considered to be a public service means that sites running CNN, MS-NBC and all the other Fake News outlets have to compete not only with each other, but also with websites that run movies, games, social media hookups and any other content that can be found online.

The most efficient way for a news and/or editorial site to carve out a particular niche for itself is to run stories whose content will draw an audience because the narrative or the perspective registers with what a significant number of viewers want to believe or what viewers feel they need to know.

Before I go further, perhaps I should make it clear that when I use the term ‘fake news,’ I am only referring to content in the digital…