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I feel like playing with the facts is par for the course in journalism these days. Regardless of the angle, the subject, or the corporation behind it, facts are
by Overtonwindow 9y ago
I feel like playing with the facts is par for the course in journalism these days. Regardless of the angle, the subject, or the corporation behind it, facts are losing their meaning with readers.
- B1FF_PSUVM 9y agoMust have been deeply humiliating for the press to have Trump win the election after their spending most of 2016 biting his knees. Citizen Kane Hearst days of selling wars to the people are long gone. I doubt they'll ever recover, no matter how many billionaires sugar daddy legacy newspapers. Bezos has the WaPo, Carlos Slim the NYTimes, and I don't care enough to look up the rest.
- asdfologist 9y agoThe problem is far worse in politics. Politicians lie egregiously on even trivial things like crowd sizes.