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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.
by 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 agoWell 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".