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Old 01-30-2017, 11:36 AM   #81
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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch View Post
I would argue in the days before instant internet news and Twitter. Where you had set periods where news came out that there was a lot more time to fact check and a lot more effort. Now these reporters run screaming to their twitter accounts and so do their news organizations. Because of that they give huge credibility to the concept of not necessarily false news, but untrustworthy news.
True.

But I also recall not that long ago, some people would criticize news outlets for being behind or not as fast as other networks.

Having instant information is consumer driven, and unfortunately so are most media outlets. It's difficult, if not impossible, to have a media outlet ruled by principles if money and viewership is their bottom line. You can have fast and you can have accurate, but you can't have both.
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