There is no, and never was, "perfect news." Pls stop referring to every mode of failure of news as "fake news". Conflation is not analysis.
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I don't think you can quantify it like that. Both present real dangers; neither invalidates the others' dangers.
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Yes. You are very invested in dismissing any causal effect here.
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Also, description of original WaPo hack story is inaccurate. It was a technical problem AND rush to publish anon leak w/o journalism
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WaPo ran an anon leak w/o contacting utility.
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Dumb, opportunistic jumping at sensational story. Newsroom economics. Retracted. Still not "Hmm, how about Pope Endorses Trump".
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Sure. Just noting that your description of this was inaccurate. You need to include the failure to do basic journalism.
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Did you ever answer my Bret Baier question?
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I have work colleagues who genuinely believe clinton murdered dozens of people. They read it on Facebook. Seems damaging
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Sure. but some of that stems from 1990s era cable news, not Facebook. Vince Foster stories.
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but the numbers they were quoting were 47, which seems ... high. She'd be one of the greatest serial killers in history.
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Almost everything has antecedents. Doesn't make it the same.
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Yup. WaPo goaded VT politicians into issuing incendiary anti-Putin statements. Conventional "fake news" can't do that.
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Can you stop tagging me since my thread starts with the point trad media does fail—and often badly? tx
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Uh no. Just no.
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Which of the two is willing to correct itself, admit it made a mistake? That is a crucial distinction.
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