> because everyone _wanted_ the world to be the way he portrayed it, almost nobody looked closer. This is definitely the real issue a lot of news sites/sources

> because everyone _wanted_ the world to be the way he portrayed it, almost nobody looked closer. This is definitely the real issue a lot of news sites/sources have now. They have an audience in mind, they and that audience have some ideas about what the world is like, and anything that conforms to that view isn't properly fact checked at all. If you want to get a hoax past any news outlet, make it a story that shows their ideological opponents in a bad light.