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What questions? We already know that the major cable news refuse to verify sources anymore because it hurts their revenue to throw away juicy fakes. The news m
by microcolonel 9y ago
What questions? We already know that the major cable news refuse to verify sources anymore because it hurts their revenue to throw away juicy fakes.
The news media, especially cable news, has completely lost the trust of the public, and it's because they no longer even pretend to care about the facts.
Edit: Referring specifically to this: "She suggested, without stating, that this may have been what caused CNN and other outlets recently to publish reports about Trump and/or Russia that ended up being retracted."
- evan_ 9y ago> We already know that the major cable news refuse to verify sources anymore because it hurts their revenue to throw away juicy fakes. You're responding to a story about a major cable news outlet outing a juicy story as untrue.
- pcwalton 9y agoThe entire reason behind this story's existence is that MSNBC failed to verify the authenticity of a document (one that they declined to publish as fact), something that they wouldn't do if they didn't care about reporting truthfully.
- BryantD 9y agoI don't know that. I know that CNN fired three people when they discovered that they ran a story without proper checking. If your assumption was correct, that wouldn't have happened.
- anth1988 9y agoThey have never revealed sources, what's changed is an insane president who wants to discredit the media because of a combination of ego, incompetence, and criminal behaviour.