My apologies if I've overused the term "Fake News" but the preponderance of multiple news stories which are glaringly wrong sorely deserves attention.Is it time for a 'thread war' about who is spreading fake news, Nighthawkeye? Do you really want the forum to filled with accusations of fake news in every thread? Is that going to help anything? How many threads are you going to start? I suggest making one of the threads your fake news accusation thread and go from there.
Curiously, a survey article in today's news indicates that Infowars, Breitbart and WND are currently held in about the same regard as The Onion ... nobody much believes what they publish ... not sure what your point here was, unless you were simply attempting to slam Fox News by association.Do you really think that Fox news or Inforwars or WND, or Breitbart didn't promote false news? I don't see apologies from them, except a few Fox news anchors.
Absolutely true ... though I suspect that you and I might disagree about which stories are true and which are false.This election I saw thread after thread with false stories.
... and now Infowars and Breitbart have no credibility.They were definite fake news stories and now we know a large number of them were created in Macedonia by teens just wanting to make money. The stories were picked up by inforwars and breitbart and more.... and bought into by many Trump supporters. They were promoted here. Folks argued that they were true.
Personally, I don't recommend Fox any more than CNN or ABC ... though I personally consider Fox News credibility to be well above CBS and NBC.All news needs to be double checked. Mainstream ones will make mistakes, get the wrong information from witness who was not accurate, and then often apologize. I have seen apologies on Fox now that I think of it.
You mean the same way Hillary owned up to creating and perpetuating the "Fake News" story about Benghazi resulting from a Youtube video ... which curiously enough none of the mainstream outlets bothered to cross-check at the time ... though alternative news outlets were sounding the alarm like crazy. Instead, the poor Youtube video creator spent a year or so in jail.Fake news stories are a legitimate concern as evidenced by the Pizzagate story that could have cost some lives. The man was armed.
Mistakes though will happen and it helps that a network or source owns up to the mistake.
You mean the same way Hillary owned up to creating and perpetuating the "Fake News" story about Benghazi resulting from a Youtube video ... which curiously enough none of the mainstream outlets bothered to cross-check at the time ... though alternative news outlets were sounding the alarm like crazy. Instead, the poor Youtube video creator spent a year or so in jail.