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Not just fake news, inaccurate or lazy journalism is also cheaper to produce. It's largely the reason for mainstream distrust of MSM over time as they've sensat
by surge 9y ago
Not just fake news, inaccurate or lazy journalism is also cheaper to produce. It's largely the reason for mainstream distrust of MSM over time as they've sensationalized the news and gone more for what's interesting more than accurate. See Buzzfeed, blog style news sites, and also some of the stuff that's been put out by WSJ and Forbes of late.
Part of that problem is that it has to be cheaper to produce so corners are cut because of the loss of revenue in the news business. It's become cut throat and a war for views to get pennies in advertiser revenue with slim to no margins. It's become a case of we get what we pay for, but even the subscription news sites with pay walls have gotten sloppy of late.
- TokenDiversity 9y agoI wonder what enables them to do this with impunity though? I mean it looks like Fox does it frequently and it recently turned out from the FBI testimony that NYC did it on the Russia Trump connection but I don't know if they apologized. PS: भारतीय recently moved to Americas lol so pardon me for my ignorance of your politics.
- surge 9y agoThey all kind of do it with impunity, if there is a later retraction or correction, it's kind of too late, and they don't exactly put it on the front page that "we got the facts surrounding this event wrong or were originally misreported from erroneous or unverified sources".