{"id":400760,"date":"2019-03-22T04:34:57","date_gmt":"2019-03-22T03:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-its-not-fake-news-its-simply-yellow-journalism\/"},"modified":"2019-03-22T04:34:57","modified_gmt":"2019-03-22T03:34:57","slug":"presstv-its-not-fake-news-its-simply-yellow-journalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-its-not-fake-news-its-simply-yellow-journalism\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-\u2018It&#8217;s not fake news; it&#8217;s simply yellow journalism\u2019\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>US President Donald Trump is correct in the overall denunciation of the news media as fake, but a much better and more accurate term for it is yellow journalism, according to Myles Hoenig, an American political analyst and activist.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hoenig, a former Green Party candidate for Congress, made the remarks in an interview with Press TV on Thursday after Trump described the mainstream media as &#8220;fake news&#8221; and the &#8220;absolute enemy&#8221; of the people and the country.<\/p>\n<p>Trump renewed his attacks on mainstream media on Tuesday. He labeled the &#8220;Fake News Media&#8221; as &#8220;dishonest&#8221; and &#8220;corrupt,&#8221; lamenting that &#8220;there has never been a time like this in American History.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDonald Trump has been calling the news media \u2018fake news\u2019 for as long as Joseph Goebbels has been dead but for the wrong reasons. To him, any negative news about him is fake. We\u2019re not sure if he actually believes such reports are lies or it\u2019s his way of maintaining a Trump brand in some&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2019\/03\/22\/591642\/Its-not-fake-news-its-simply-yellow-journalism\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump is correct in the overall denunciation of the news media as fake, but a much better and more accurate term for it is yellow journalism, according to Myles Hoenig, an American political analyst and activist.\u00a0 Hoenig, a former Green Party candidate for Congress, made the remarks in an interview with Press [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-400760","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}