https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/04/fake-news-undermines-trump-administration-and-michael-cutler/
President Trump is credited with coining the term “Fake News.” Fake News reports are not only irritating but have become so pervasive and impactful that it threatens our very democracy.
Fake News has two elements – the use of Politically Correct language and blatant lies.
Americans are among the most compassionate and considerate people in the world. Today, by turning that virtue into a vulnerability, Americans have been conditioned to use “Politically Correct” language to ostensibly be kind and compassionate. Under the guise of political correctness, Americans have permitted themselves to accept Orwellian Newspeak that alters their understanding of critical issues. Humans think with words, consequently language control results in thought control.
The very term Politically Correct is Orwellian for Newspeak!
I focused on this threat in my article, Language Wars: The Road to Tyranny Is Paved with Language Censorship.
George Orwell understood the power of words and, in his novel 1984, devised Newspeak which exploited manipulation of language that enabled the mythical totalitarian government in his novel to maintain iron-fisted control over the masses. It was the contradictorily named “Ministry of Truth” that administered Newspeak.