Fake News... How "Ben.S." does it.

While looking at the twitter of Ben, a conservative American of some note as a character, as a polemic.  I noticed a common enough trick or theme.  One need not rebuke the facts but claim them in principle.  In principle, we need not fear the facts even as we avoid then in practice.  Ben on his twitter and through other mediums selects easy targets, insists they're the mainstream, even if they're fringe or not linked to political influence and power and grumbles upon the nature of the liberalist insanity that hath unfurled before us.  And when insisting upon the falsity of the news reports in the main of the press, Ben insists that use of a stock image or video, or the same borrowed from elsewhere, is a primary piece of evidence that the mainstream news media are the producers of propaganda.  What Ben.S might call "Fake News."  And from this suggestion of fake news and the previously noted insanity of the fringe of the left, he paints a picture of a surreal world.  A world believed to be real by many, even if it is a manifestation of deception through the eyes of a very limited social media perspective.  Ben is a propagandist who picks targets and re-enforces conservative values in a way that leaves little room for introspection.  Which is, after all, the whole point.  

Fake News, with broad strokes.

I should like to note the dangers of false news, many crow on social-media about a statist that turns-out to be inaccurate, a quote that has lost some context, or a picture or video clip that is used in a report that seems to be misplaced.  The social media reactionaries think this makes a news report fake, yet they use the idea of fake news to insert totally incorrect claims.  News reporting errors in action and judgement occur, largely this is benign, and one should not dismiss the artist for one misplaced stroke of the brush upon the canvas.