NYT’s Jeremy Peters on Sinclair: This Is ‘Chilling to Democracy’

‘What Trump and what now Sinclair is doing is conflating this idea of fake news, which is the purposeful manipulation and fabrication of fact with stories that they find somehow unflattering’

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PETERS: "But he also understands the vulnerabilities in the media. And what’s worse than that, though, is his willingness to lie about it. His willingness to say, 'No, I not only disagree with this story, I not only think it’s wrong, but it’s made-up, it’s fabricated,' and that’s something we’ve never seen before from politicians ever, politicians who have illegitimate and legitimate gripes to pick with the press. What Trump and what now Sinclair is doing is conflating this idea of fake news, which is the purposeful manipulation and fabrication of fact with stories that they find somehow unflattering. And that is really what’s chilling to democracy.”

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