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“Journalism is printing what someone does not want printed, everything else is PR” ironically applies to charges/countercharges of fake news too. It’s one idiot printing what another idiot does nor want printed.
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In both cases the mere hostility of a party with power is taken to be a proxy for truth. The heuristic is good for personally threatening news about stuff like corruption or crime. For matters of general factfulness, it’s basically noise.