Comedy Central’s Special The Fake News with Ted Nelms, which came out on Dec.13 of last year, is a comedic show that highlights controversial news by creating a made-up version of it. For example in this episode I screenshot, Trump’s tweet “Failing media won’t give Trump credit. Nobody has ever gone inside a well this deep before. I have the best well” gave the show an opportunity to pretend a news segment where Trump LITERALLY fell in a well. Here is the video clip. USA Today interviewed Helms about his show in which he said “I think that it’s important for us to be using the term 'fake news' properly, which is to say that fake news is completely made-up news. It's news that has no basis in fact.” Here is the link to his article.
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