Andromicus posted...
People seem to think that major news agencies can just make shit up, journalistic integrity is a real thing and they will get major shit for getting things wrong, regardless of political affiliation. That said they can choose what to report on and when but it's not like some wasteland of disinformation, we the consumer are held to at least some standard, and screeching "fake news!" does nothing to help.
The very best "journalistic integrity" is the end product of a long version of the party game "Telephone", where what a source thinks is happening is filtered through what a reporter thinks the source said, further modified by an editor or director, maybe a few more writers who interpret in their own way, before it ever gets read by a talking-head commentator.
Anyone who has ever been interviewed for the news knows that what is printed in the paper or shown on TV has very little in common with what was actually said.
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