Chuck ToddVerified account

There was zero accountability or even healthy skepticism until Mueller commented. Nor was there much concern that BuzzFeed was employing a serial fabulist as a reporter. Even now your concern is how people will use it against you, not how the media screwed up and how to prevent.

CNN literally posted an old story about the one author’s checkered past directly below the story and linked to it within the story itself. They weren’t even remotely misleading... it said exactly what it was, an unconfirmed report.

The problem is that you (media) refuse to reflect on yourselves, you paint yourselves as exceptional and the conscience of society. You presume society cannot effectively think for itself. In other words you no longer report, you now feel the need to shape.

It’s not a presumption when over 40% of the voting population fell for “Mexico will pay for the wall” and believes Trump represents the Christian ideals they want for the country. If anything, Trump being elected is proof that too much of US society can’t think for itself.