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In response to "A journalist didn't do her homework. She was caught. Thankfully, she quickly owned up to it and backtracked. -- nm" by Strongbad

That's the difference...there are news sources which hold themselves to a standard. If mistakes are made and how could they not be, they are corrected

Posted by Mel Profit (aka mel profit) Mar 31 '17, 06:38

There are "news sources" who know they're slanting the stories. Now there are "news sources" who deliberately distribute blatantly false stories and who pretend they can hear you when you point out how they're wrong. So, there's a difference here.

Also, there's reason to be concerned by this but this has been happening for a long long time. The British had/have a long tradition of newspapers who got their stories from a political party. There's also Yellow Journalism. The desire to control the information is not a new concept, just the execution of it now is so effective. You can literally have stories out there that the world is controlled by alien lizards and people believe it.

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She deserves credit for owning up to it and correcting herself, I agree. - Strongbad Mar 31, 06:44 1
- The alarming part now is how easy it is to inject a completely false world view into people who will believe it. -- (edited) - Mel Profit Mar 31, 06:46

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That's the difference...there are news sources which hold themselves to a standard. If mistakes are made and how could they not be, they are corrected

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