Good Article On Fake News

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https://www.journalism.co.uk/news-commentary/journalism-versus-lies-and-fake-news-time-for-a-rethink/s6/a707495/

2016 may have been a good year for news – the big stories certainly came fast enough and thick enough – but it wasn’t a good year for journalism. On both sides of the Atlantic, editors and reporters were in turns bewildered, cowed and overwhelmed by the new age of post-truth politics and fake news. It has been a new era for which journalism seems to have been singularly ill-prepared.
 
I gave up on papers and hardly bother to watch much news lately, since Brexit and Trumps clusterfuck of a presidential term in office theres not much space for anything else.
 
Balls, just lost a long post!

Too often during the EU referendum debate in the UK dubious claims and counter-claims were allowed to stand unchallenged. Too often Boris Johnson was not quizzed about the £350m a week to the NHS claim. George Osborne’s proposed ‘emergency budget’ was not treated sceptically enough.

The British media needs to be far bolder and blunter in pointing out official falsehoods and lies. It needs to take a leaf out of the American media’s book, which after the failures of the early campaign coverage really seems to have got the bit between its teeth.
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This is the key to me. IF the press started reporting and investigating the truth instead of just using lies from politicians to suit their agenda, then there might be a future for the mainstream media.

If all they are going to do is repeat the lies of the frauds like Boris, Farage, McDonnell et al, then what's the point? Facebook/twitter does that without the need of press.

How different results might have been if not for the lie spread all over the media about the £350m

 
HeathfieldRoad1874 - 22/7/2017 17:26

The trouble is that those that want to believe it's still will. They'd call it fake news and drift on in their bigoted ways.
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Or they are just happy to swallow the bullshit fed to them on a daily basis by those with vested interests like Rupert Murdoch. It's no coincidence that The Sun generally decides the result of the elections in this country, it's just gobsmacking people still fall for their nonsense.
 
The 1 thing the internet has bought about is there is alot of ''stupid'' people in this world. They aren't just confined to the neighborhood and area of life you live in
 
It's right on both counts, mainstream media as it's now called has hardly covered itself in glory over the last few year just repeating claims but not critiquing them and they've lowered their own standards in the process.

So now when they say something that matters most people ignore it.

I read somewhere the other day, not sure if it was just US based or worldwide (might have been that article actually I can't be bothered to check lol) but we have something like 114 fact checking companies now in existence which I think it more than ever but in our UK press how often do you ever see them used to back up claims or dispute them?
 
it is a shame the press can't get back to what used to work well, factual news, opinion pieces.

I like the facts, I then like differing opinions on the facts, I then make my own mind up.

It's not difficult is it?

How the likes of Johnson aren't in court for fraud over the £350m thing is beyond me... well, beyond me to an extent, but I understand those at the top of the system don't turn on each other!
 
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