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Reporting an event that actually happened. How hard a concept is this, really?

• mentat 10y ago
  And that report is just the facts? I haven't seen real news in a couple decades then. Better just filter it all.
  • yosito 10y ago
    Fake news is saying that George Soros has voting machines that are rigging the election. It's just not true no matter how much people want to hear it. Real news is saying that Trump wants to address immigration by building a wall. People may disagree about what that means, but it's still a true story.
• yosito 10y ago
  You can't tell me that Clinton lost the election. You're just biased against democrats. ;)
• pixl97 10y ago
  Very. Prove I went to a restaurant yesterday. You could show a video of me at a restaurant, but is it from yesterday, or some other day. Is it really me there, or someone that looked like me.
  • hota_mazi 10y ago
    You are describing the difficulty of proving that an event really happened. The discussion is about the definition of "real news". Two very different things.
    • dingaling 10y ago
      Well perhaps that is the problem. "The news" used to be about events that had happened, often several days in the past due to the propagation speed of information. Nowadays "the news" also includes: 1. What someone says might be happening right now. 2. What someone says about something that happened, or which might be happening right now. 3. What someone thinks might happen next. None of which are necessarily true or grounded in fact but all of which are valued by the media in the race to be first with the headlines. So perhaps "real news" could be defined as "events which have occurred and for which we have objective proof" and everything else is just "editorial".
• tomp 10y ago
  Most mainstream media post interpretations, not facts. E.g. that Trump is "racist" (based on some comments about some, not even all, Mexican, who aren't even a race!).