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Originally Posted by CaramonLS
This whole accusing stuff of being fake news is getting out of hand. I think the "Fake News" stuff has become somewhat exaggerated to lump anything not "mainstream". It is more akin to Yellow Journalism as opposed to being fake.
It is used to try to discredit just about anything that doesn't fall into the spectrum of discourse in by some of the larger media organizations.
The richest part about this whole thing is that it really has started with the MSM outlets and now others are following suit thinking they can do half assed research and throw it out there for anyone to digest. See stuff like this from a "mainsteam" source: Link. Which basically cites random facebook posts and tweets in order to push an agenda.
When you start promoting low effort content and opinion based punditry non-stop, people are going to start to imitate that too, because they want a piece of the action ($$$) or deliberately want to mislead you and because it is so easy to do. There are no barriers to entry because everyone has an opinion which they can type out and do a few minutes of internet research, just like that high priced pundit.
If you want this to stop, Investigative reporting needs to start to make a comeback. Otherwise people are going to be lost in the sea of clickbait and low-effort content. Do something to distinguish your product and make it worthy of being read again. |
Two things:
1) fake news is fake news. It's made up news. This isn't MSM vs other media. It's fake news. It's infowars and Breitbart and others. It's made up news. It's fictional news. You can't legitimize it by saying it's just not MSM
2) The reason for it's rise isn't MSM's fault. If there's one irritating thing out of all of this is the concerted effort from conspiracy theorists to lump hundreds of thousands of journalists as a single GROUP. People click on interesting stories. Real life grey complex stories aren't as attention grabbing as the Clinton's had people killed. You cannot compete with that. It's made up, but far more interesting. The rise of fake news is on the people. You cannot give idiocy of the general populace a pass all the time and scream "IF ONLY THE MSM COVETED THE CLINTON'S MURDERS AS WELL AS INFOWARS!" because that's the opposite of what they should be doing. The reason we don't have Walter Cronkite in 2016 is because people don't want that. End of story