The real problem with the news isn’t that it’s fake

“Fake news!” shouts the president. His supporters cheer.
That drives my colleagues into a frenzy of self-absorbed handwringing: “Threats to press freedom … press persecution!”
It’s silly. American reporters are hardly less safe because of President Donald Trump’s hyperbole.
Trump is reckless when he uses the term in other countries. Authoritarians in Russia, China, the Philippines, Saudi Arabia, etc., now cite “fake news” while they jail or