Andrew Donaldson
12 min readJan 8, 2018

Scripted Fake News: Discerning Politics as a Smart, Not a Mark

We need some new terminology when it comes to “fake news” and the Media/Political soap opera. Messaging, campaigning, and outreach have learned to go viral by appearing to be anything other than the direct messaging they are. News and fake news are terms being applied to anything you either agree/disagree with. New terms are needed; something to distinguish between the real, the not real, and the mixture of the two.

What we need in political thought is the logic and psychology of professional wrestling.

Andrew Donaldson

Writer. Mountaineer diaspora. Veteran. Managing Editor @ordinarytimemag on culture & politics, food writing @yonderandhome, Host @heardtellshow & other media