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- 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
by 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.