After more than a year of breathless "Reporting" about foreign influence on the 2016 election that portrayed the electorate as being more malleable than cruise ship hypnotist's audience, The New York Times.
This conclusion may sound jarring at a time when people are concerned about the effects of the false news articles that flooded Facebook and other online outlets during the 2016 election.
That these so-called fake news articles swung the election to Donald J. Trump.
The article goes on to cite several studies that say bots and fake news aren't having any real impact because - SURPRISE - people who have already made up their minds aren't likely to be swayed.
The problem when any mainstream media outlet discusses fake news is that they are using their definition of it.
When President Trump first began using the term he was speaking about American news sources, not the Russians.
In the time since President Trump took office, the American MSM have been opining, not reporting.
When Op-Eds are presented as journalism, that's fake news.
Of course, the media in this country have been blurring the lines between reporting and opinion for a very long time, but it's reached ridiculous lows in the Trump era.
What's worse, is that this fake news does influence people.
Opinions can be swayed when the consumer of the fake news believes he is reading real reporting.
https://spectator.org/fake-news-peddlers-assure-us-fake-news-isnt-influential/
This conclusion may sound jarring at a time when people are concerned about the effects of the false news articles that flooded Facebook and other online outlets during the 2016 election.
That these so-called fake news articles swung the election to Donald J. Trump.
The article goes on to cite several studies that say bots and fake news aren't having any real impact because - SURPRISE - people who have already made up their minds aren't likely to be swayed.
The problem when any mainstream media outlet discusses fake news is that they are using their definition of it.
When President Trump first began using the term he was speaking about American news sources, not the Russians.
In the time since President Trump took office, the American MSM have been opining, not reporting.
When Op-Eds are presented as journalism, that's fake news.
Of course, the media in this country have been blurring the lines between reporting and opinion for a very long time, but it's reached ridiculous lows in the Trump era.
What's worse, is that this fake news does influence people.
Opinions can be swayed when the consumer of the fake news believes he is reading real reporting.
https://spectator.org/fake-news-peddlers-assure-us-fake-news-isnt-influential/
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