ROTHENBURGER – Santa Claus and other fake news: how do we know what’s real?

Posted on December 17, 2016 in Columns, Rothenburger // 0 Comments

Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton in second presidential debate.

U.S. presidential election was all about fake news.

THERE IS no Santa Claus.

We know that statement is a bald-faced lie. It is fake news.

Newspaper editor Francis Pharcellus Church of the New York Sun fact-checked it in 1897 and concluded, “He lives, and he lives forever.”

Fake Santa stories aren’t new. The latest is about a five-year-old terminally ill boy who died in Santa’s arms after the jolly old elf rushed from a department store gig to hospital to be with him.

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