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Article described a few instances of fake news but failed to give an example of bad news. After reading it twice it's not clear if "bad" means "negative" or "of

by csredr 10y ago

Article described a few instances of fake news but failed to give an example of bad news. After reading it twice it's not clear if "bad" means "negative" or "of poor quality."

generic_user 10y ago
Bad news can be a lot of things just like fake news. Generally stuff like character assignations pieces, extremely partisan stories that have an agenda could be considered bad news. So basically most of the news at this point is bad news. And thats why all the polls show that only around twenty percent of the people still trust the mainstream media. Its corporate mainstream media that is part of the problem and some of the worst offenders. I see this as another attempt at blame shifting and an attempt to paint alternative media as a whole with a 'fake news' stigma.
Sakes 10y ago
I suspect he didn't want the main point of the article being lost in partisan internet arguments. If he said Fox was bad news, the conservatives would lose it. If he said MSNBC was bad news the liberals would lose it. I assume Snopes will approach it article by article, episode segment by episode segment, and let the quality of a given source be revealed over time.
PaulKeeble 10y ago
- The sciennce articles that come to conclusions the original study didn't, there have literally been hundreds of them in the UK press over the past 10-15 years. The MMR scare is a prime example of bad news (its actually 99% fake but with that nugget of truth in the middle that is distorted so much its fake news). - All the bad tech news like all the magical batteries that are coming out next year, and haven't actually every come out at all. - The political news where they attack someone for something they didn't do. - The news papers hacking into politicians/famous peoples computers to steal private information and publishing stories on it. - The pieces about a person that are purely ad hominen and have little to nothing to do with the job they do. - The pieces that endanger people doing dangerous jobs around the globe, especially things like famous people working in Afghanistan and necessitating them to quit their jobs. - The news that is just "he said" which has even become twitter quotes now. Just presenting that with no actual points, history or anything else to actually make an article. - Taking quotes from speeches that are the exact opposite of what the person meant, just plain taken out of context. That right there is 80% of the news we read every single day on news papers around the world. I could go on and on about all the fake/bad news types we see but my conclusion having personally fact checked a lot of news that could be verified is that 95% of it is either a lie or intentionally misleading. Its every news paper I have checked in the UK and the USA. Its scary how bad the news is.

by csredr 10y ago

Article described a few instances of fake news but failed to give an example of bad news. After reading it twice it's not clear if "bad" means "negative" or "of poor quality."

generic_user 10y ago

Bad news can be a lot of things just like fake news. Generally stuff like character assignations pieces, extremely partisan stories that have an agenda could be considered bad news. So basically most of the news at this point is bad news. And thats why all the polls show that only around twenty percent of the people still trust the mainstream media. Its corporate mainstream media that is part of the problem and some of the worst offenders. I see this as another attempt at blame shifting and an attempt to paint alternative media as a whole with a 'fake news' stigma.

Sakes 10y ago

I suspect he didn't want the main point of the article being lost in partisan internet arguments. If he said Fox was bad news, the conservatives would lose it. If he said MSNBC was bad news the liberals would lose it. I assume Snopes will approach it article by article, episode segment by episode segment, and let the quality of a given source be revealed over time.

PaulKeeble 10y ago

- The sciennce articles that come to conclusions the original study didn't, there have literally been hundreds of them in the UK press over the past 10-15 years. The MMR scare is a prime example of bad news (its actually 99% fake but with that nugget of truth in the middle that is distorted so much its fake news). - All the bad tech news like all the magical batteries that are coming out next year, and haven't actually every come out at all. - The political news where they attack someone for something they didn't do. - The news papers hacking into politicians/famous peoples computers to steal private information and publishing stories on it. - The pieces about a person that are purely ad hominen and have little to nothing to do with the job they do. - The pieces that endanger people doing dangerous jobs around the globe, especially things like famous people working in Afghanistan and necessitating them to quit their jobs. - The news that is just "he said" which has even become twitter quotes now. Just presenting that with no actual points, history or anything else to actually make an article. - Taking quotes from speeches that are the exact opposite of what the person meant, just plain taken out of context. That right there is 80% of the news we read every single day on news papers around the world. I could go on and on about all the fake/bad news types we see but my conclusion having personally fact checked a lot of news that could be verified is that 95% of it is either a lie or intentionally misleading. Its every news paper I have checked in the UK and the USA. Its scary how bad the news is.