The difference is that when a news outfit makes a mistake they have simply made a mistake that they can correct. I have far less problem with admitted mistakes that are corrected than with mistakes that are never corrected or retracted. And when the volume becomes huge it is an obvious attempt to use the news to attack and to advocate and to direct, rather than to report
Again that is fine if your talkinf about fake news in general and not attacking specific news organizations and labeling them the enemy. That is dictatorship level talk
Then why do you have a problem with the NYT? Every single one of the examples you provided of them getting something wrong was also accompanied by a correction they made.
Yes, but they are specific news organizations that continually get the news wrong or advocate, rather than report - either by design or by incompetence or both.
CNN is CLEARLY anti-Trump in its outlook and that has resulted in a large number of wrong stories in their attempt to attack him or people who support him. They are a great example of an organization that in its zeal has become a fake news organization. I wouldn’t watch them to get the weather, at this point. That’s how little I trust their veracity.
I try to keep my most vicious comments about the post and not the poster. Apparently it’s not always clear (or there is some thin skin around here) cuz I’ve had posts deleted that in my mind, were clearly about the post.
The problem I have with ‘turnabout is fair play’ is I end up looking like the idiots I laughed at all those years. I try to avoid that whenever possible.
But you have to get specific with your criticism in order to call out the specific purveyors of fake news, else they will say, “Well, that’s not us.We are GREAT!”
If people find them credible they will keep their audience. If not they will lose their audience, more and more.
Criticism is ESSENTIAL if we are to have the best press in a free society, as there is no government control over the press and criticism is the only check on the press.
It isnt criticism. Der trumpengroper exempts fox news and specifically labels any news organization that is critical of him as the enemy of the people while spreading lies 24/7. You dont have to slavishly defend this real estate conman. I can keep this up as long as i need to until this point hits home.