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It's obviously fine to disagree, but you're not addressing my point. It's one of conceptual propriety and how people can be manipulated by conceptual distortions. Of course it's also fine to add a modifier to news--'daily news' or 'foreign news' etc. are perfectly fine, but the problem with 'satirical news' is, again, that it is not news. It's satire, and satire may use news as its basis or in itself have news value, e.g. 'Alec Baldwin does Trump impression', but it is not news. The case with 'satirical news' is more harmless (although people do mistake satire for news), but 'fake news' is active manipulation in the way that I described above. Every time someone uses that term, they help people like Trump and their propaganda.