President Trump is generating a little bit of Fake News himself.
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In an interview with the “so fantastic” Mike Huckabee on his Saturday night show on Trinity Broadcasting Network, Trump complained that “the media is really, the word, one of the greatest of all terms I've come up with, is ‘fake,’”
But producers at POP-TV’s “The Daily Buzz” have found out that the term has been used for at least 25 years. They discovered a TV Guide cover story from the publication’s February 22-28, 1992, issue that was titled "Fake News."
"The TV Guide story purported to 'expose' the use of video news releases (VNRs) by local television newscasts," said Kevin Foley, KEF Media, which owns and produces The Daily Buzz. "I also recall that during the FCC kerfuffle over VNRs a decade ago, media activists used the term 'fake news' to describe VNRs."
To be fair to the President, he did go on to say, “I guess other people have used it perhaps over the years but I've never noticed it.” That observation, however, doesn’t make it under the wire of Twitter’s 140-character limit or Trump’s increasingly limited memory and attention span.
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