> I truly wonder how much of what is presented in the MSM these days is actually not real and manages to slip by... Quite a lot presumably. Ever since the idea

> I truly wonder how much of what is presented in the MSM these days is actually not real and manages to slip by... Quite a lot presumably. Ever since the idea of a media started, there have been people trying to hoax it for whatever reason or not: http://hoaxes.org/weblog/categories/category/Journalism http://hoaxes.org/weblog/categories/category/Journalism If a story is mainstream enough (or remotely political), hoaxes will probably get identified at some point or another. If it's in a specialist subject area? Forget it. Who knows how much questionable stuff slips through when neither the journalist nor their audience know what's plausible and what isn't?