The New York Times's Jeremy W. Peters isn't happy that conservatives took aim at the mainstream media after "appropriating the term" fake news and turned it against them.

He whined about it in the opening paragraphs of one of his latest pieces:

The C.I.A., the F.B.I. and the White House may all agree that Russia was behind the hacking that interfered with the election. But that was of no import to the website Breitbart News, which dismissed reports on the intelligence assessment as "left-wing fake news."

Rush Limbaugh has diagnosed a more fundamental problem. "The fake news is the everyday news" in the mainstream media, he said on his radio show recently. "They just make it up."