that's gonna work out so bad overall. all the covering up from mainstream journalist with an agenda pushed all the people away and into the open arms of the craziest cospiracy theorists. this helped opening the eyes on some issues at first, but now it has became a wild free for all between the lunatics and the crazy.
And rather than develop integrity, the MSM would rather seek to destroy their opponents coverage. It's pretty fucked tbh, because no one sees their opponents as ever winning, completely ignorant of how they are creating tools which their opponents can use just as easily as them if they are in power.
It's probably different to a small extent in every country. Here, the conservative right wing media kept bashing the MSM in general (and in the end undermining their own credibility) for years, which helped contribute to the whole distrust of the media.
I must be missing something because we don't need less media calling each other out for being lying pieces of shit, we need more. It's pretty much a running joke that people who subscribe to one news outlets make fun of those who subscribe to another as being deluded insane morons, things like Guardian reader, Daily Mail reader, CNN watcher or Fox watcher etc are derogatory terms for a reason, completely ignorant of how they should all be scrutinized and fucked picked apart. Giving them more power to escape scrutiny and eliminate more people who are capable of exposing their scummery is bound to end poorly.
The problem now isn't so much as finding racist stuff than fake news triggering something bad. Like what could have happened with Pakistan. Now world leaders have to double check things for sure, or triple check. Trump seems like exactly the type to hair trigger react to something that is fake news without checking it.
Fake news (or rather inflammatory news based on vague info) has started wars before: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish%E2%80%93American_War#USS_Maine http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/12/fake-news-history-long-violent-214535
Sounds like a perfect excuse to make Facebook and Google the arbiters of truth for most of the human species, giving that power to so few people is going to be abused and already is. FFS it's pointless, people want this, just like mass surveillance. The progressives are gonna Uturn about this when Trump's ilk use it to cover up their fuckups and turn their enemies into jokes, then when they get their turn in power they'll just use it to their own ends again and the cycle will never end. Rip in peas, have no faith in man
Are we going to mention Fox or not? Because for every exaggeration, every manipulation, every spin on liberal-baised media, Fox alone has unleashed a torrent of misinformation. If nothing else, your argument will get a more sympathetic ear if you stop pretending that liberal media is some kind of powerful ogre without paying some mind to the 400-ton troll that is Fox.
I thought Fox was without mentioning, sorta like how you don't need to mention RT works for Kremlin, BBC works for Britain and Al Jazzy works for Qatar. I don't bring up RW media because Bay12 already distrusts outlets like Breitbart and Fox, but is not so critical of MSNBC and CNN. They are a part of this torrent of shit that has fucking ruined all credibility for the worthless field that is journalism, I only fear that if the focus is allowed to shift to the outlets we all know are full of shit and away from the outlets we trust that support our views then we'll get sucked into partisanship. I made an analogy earlier in regards to partisan media when someone was talking about how biased news wasn't a problem, and I argued it was absolutely the fucking worst. My analogy was that imagine you have two sides reporting on a disaster, one reporting that there was an earthquake whilst another reporting there was a flood - the compromise it was a mudslide, whilst in actuality there was no disaster and both sides were full of shit.
The difficulty therein lies in that it is nearly impossible to gain power without the aid of some media outlet. Thus no one can attack their own media outlet without silencing themselves, which is suicidal - however, with the rise of the internet, it is possible, and people can get into power openly antagonistic of the media's honesty. With the likes of Facebook and Google, we move backwards, back to square fucking one
So in short, you're right, and it makes everything so much worse. I wish it could be partisan and we could blame evil libruls or conservatards, but it's fucked everywhere, everyone, all fucked.
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