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Maybe stop the spread of nonsense like 'pope endorses Trump' or pizzagate?
by pg314 10y ago
Maybe stop the spread of nonsense like 'pope endorses Trump' or pizzagate?
- basch 10y agowould these measures end up blocking something like a modest proposal
- _dark_matter_ 10y agoA Modest Proposal is not, and never was, "News". It is opinion.
- basch 10y agomaybe Best In Show, that dog documentary, is a better example.
- jwtadvice 10y agoMost news is (unfortunately) nothing more than opinion. Either the opinion of "an unnamed official", the opinion of a contributor, the opinion of a sponsor, or the opinion of an editor. Take the recent opinions of anonymous officials that Russia's objective in leaking DNC corruption was to get Trump elected. That's being reported on as news and fact, with the opinion aspect of it turned down to obscurity.
- makomk 10y agoI wonder how this would affect, say, the claim that bulk marketing emails for Trump hotels were actually secret communications with Russia, as reported by Slate and repeated by a certain @HillaryClinton on Twitter. (And, for that matter, the associated belief that the FBI concluding they were a non-issue was proof that the FBI are backing Trump.)