{"id":111686,"date":"2018-01-18T10:33:53","date_gmt":"2018-01-18T10:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/?p=111686"},"modified":"2018-11-09T12:40:36","modified_gmt":"2018-11-09T11:40:36","slug":"fake-news-awards-and-the-winner-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/fake-news-awards-and-the-winner-is\/","title":{"rendered":"Fake News Awards: and the winner is\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Donald Trump has been promising the \u2018Fake News Awards\u2019 for a couple of weeks, and after it was postponed once, excitement reached fever pitch last night as the anticipated time finally arrived.<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">So is the whole Fake News Awards thing itself fake news or what?<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Amol Rajan (@amolrajanBBC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/amolrajanBBC\/status\/953742349082988544?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 17, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Rather anticlimactically, the Fake News Awards were not revealed at a black tie gala dinner but in a blog post on the GOP\u2019s official website (yes, really). <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/953794085751574534\">Tweeted<\/a> by Donald Trump, \u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/templatelab.com\/gop-fake-news-awards\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Highly-Anticipated 2017 Fake News Awards<\/a>\u2019 named 11 \u2018winners\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Despite their campaigning, there weren\u2019t prizes for either Stephen Colbert (who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.co.uk\/entry\/stephen-colbert-ad-trump-fake-news-awards_us_5a4dc146e4b06d1621bd1690\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">campaigned<\/a> with a billboard in Times Square) or Trevor Noah (who ran a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EamonJavers\/status\/949262406865350657?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnbc.com%2F2018%2F01%2F05%2Ftrumps-fake-news-awards-entered-by-stephen-colbert-and-trevor-noah.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">full page ad<\/a> in the New York Times).<\/p>\n<p>Unsurprisingly, CNN were the big winners from the night, bagging four <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23fakies&amp;src=typd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Fakies<\/a>. The New York Times managed two, while Newsweek, The Washington Post, Time and ABC took one each. The final award was aimed at the mainstream media for reporting \u2018Russia Collusion\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>When Trump announced the award winners, the GOP site crashed, showing the huge level of interest there is in another strange moment in a presidency of strange moments.<\/p>\n<p>When the site was back up and running, readers were not only greeted with the 11 award winners, but also 10 \u2018results\u2019 Trump has achieved, from \u2018recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of the State of Israel\u2019 to \u2018African Americans and Hispanics are enjoying the lowest unemployment rate in recorded history\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s most concerning about the Fake News Awards, is not that they\u2019re clearly a promotional tool for Trump\u2019s \u2018good\u2019 work, but that they\u2019re being widely mocked. The world has now reached a level of apathy for ethics that the President of the most powerful nation in the world can openly attack the media, and by extension the freedom of the press, and it be considered a joke.<\/p>\n<p>The Fakies should concern everyone.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has spent a long time undermining the validity of the press, and for the most part, the press has played along. The more this happens, the more Trump will be able to act or behave however he likes without being held accountable.<\/p>\n<p>There was once a time when a front page could topple a government, but in the age of Trump, that power has gone. Everyone, from the media to the public, are now just helpless bystanders to the Trump show \u2013 and who knows what will be next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump has been promising the \u2018Fake News Awards\u2019 for a couple of weeks, and after it was postponed once, excitement reached fever pitch last night as the anticipated time finally arrived.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":423,"featured_media":111693,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7365,350,7272,3729],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111686"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/423"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111686"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119046,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111686\/revisions\/119046"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}