Fake News Becomes a Way of Life
National Review,
by
Michael Brendan Dougherty
Original Article
Posted By: MissMolly,
7/18/2020 4:49:12 AM
In December 2016, Ben Smith, then BuzzFeed’s editor-in-chief, wrote a memo to his staff that was meant to be a kind of charter for the dawning of the Trump Era. In truth it spoke to and aimed to speak for the entire mainstream media. Smith would eventually move on to the New York Times, which elevated him to a role as the supervisory voice of conscience for the whole media. But that December, he warned his staff of the danger of fake news, and the need of the media to be accurate and factual:
The information environment itself will become even more central to our coverage:
Reply 1 - Posted by:
DCGIRL 7/18/2020 6:22:01 AM (No. 482214)
Now you can smell fake news. They don't even try to hide it.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
planetgeo 7/18/2020 6:58:19 AM (No. 482235)
The thing I love most about them is their air of undeserved hyper-virtuous superiority. Like their not so stealthy signaling to their comrades their self-perceived level eleven smartness and ability to tweak, torment, and enrage their common enemy (us rubes) with the audacity of their fakeness. Jim Acosta comes to mind. And just about anyone writing at the NYT or WaPo, but especially Paul Krugman, the SuperPutz of the Pullet Surprise. And definitely every single person on CNN and PMSNBC.
Do they really not see how stupid they look and sound?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 7/18/2020 8:59:54 AM (No. 482377)
And yet, way too many Americans willingly consume the msm's news product each and every day. How gullible this society has become. Little wonder why Putie, Xi, and the socialist states in Europe chuckle every day at us for appearing so weak and vulnerable to marxist propaganda.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
save America 7/18/2020 9:18:38 AM (No. 482394)
Now for some good news.The war in ‘Oceania’ is going well.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
sanspeur 7/18/2020 9:52:36 AM (No. 482433)
Interesting the term “information environment “. I remember when environmental science was real , hard, verifiable science .Then slowly that morphed outta the lab into politics & wealth transfer , control .The easy ,feel good “gotta DO something “ cult became the bedrock for just about any cause .$$& power flowed .
The ease with which this happened , the lies , corrupted the activist press in other areas .
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bighambone 7/18/2020 10:21:31 AM (No. 482485)
We have a newspaper here owned by Warren Buffett and his Berkshire-Hathaway conglomerate that is into rehashing a couple of days old New York City and Washington, DC centric anti-Trump fake news put together by the New York Times, Washington Post, and the Associated Press. I have a subscription to the politicized rag and as soon as the subscription runs out it will be gone from my home. I know a person who has worked for that rag and she told me they are constantly loosing money and could go out of business. Can’t be gone soon enough!
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
JackBurton 7/18/2020 10:47:05 AM (No. 482519)
FTA: The protests were “mostly peaceful” according to Vox. “Largely peaceful” protests had occurred, said NPR
You know, the Tsarnaev brothers and John Wayne Gacy were also largely lawabiding. Yes?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 7/18/2020 11:24:48 AM (No. 482589)
How much of the reporting on CV19, George Floyd, BLM, and the protests has turned into fake news? It isn't just the news anymore. The medical industry has joined in. Our politicians are lying through their teeth. I tune out people that parrot what they are saying. I'm tired of all this. I don't like being lied to. I don't like ignorance. I don't like arrogance. The more I see them, the more I tune people out.
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FAKE = the idea that these masks will protect us. People who wear masks all the time are sniveling, gutless cowards
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RedWhite&Blue2 7/18/2020 1:09:13 PM (No. 482756)
A LIE can make its way around the world before the truth can get its pants on...
It’s not “fake” news anymore
It’s damnable LIES!
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
chiller 7/18/2020 8:18:55 PM (No. 483128)
Just maybe mainstream media knows and is embarrassed by their fake news. I submit that we never hear "impeached" President Trump. It was promised that even if the impeachment failed to convict and remove, they would hang that perjorative around his neck until his dying day.
Considering the source (house Ds) , I considered it a badge of honor. They don't use it for fear of refreshing memories of their fraud.
They know.
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