To be honest, I think it’s usually obvious when a ‘news’ source is deliberately telling falsehoods to a less than well-informed audience in order to further a p

To be honest, I think it’s usually obvious when a ‘news’ source is deliberately telling falsehoods to a less than well-informed audience in order to further a political and / or ideological agenda. The issue seems the belief that attempting to run an objectively true and reasonably balanced news service is itself ideologically biased, in that it interferes with the desire to conduct ‘the politics of narrow interests’ - something that often requires one group to discount the interests of the others using dishonest speech.