Sunday, November 20, 2016

The Mainstream Media Has Only Itself to Blame for the ‘Fake News’ Epidemic



An industry that reveres Jon Stewart, and seeks analysis from Dan Rather and Brian Williams, is part of the problem.

...The Democrat party seems to think people with Facebook accounts are to blame for Hillary’s decision to ignore crucial swing states in the final weeks of the campaign, that likely cost her the election.

But the media hasn’t bothered to ask why such sites gained traction. Our media has cultivated false news for years. Understandably, people stopped caring about the “journalistic ethics” the media claim to possess....

When false narratives and comedians are championed, the public at large stops relying on publications and networks who attempt to pass themselves off as “real news” but who in fact either ignore or simply don’t care about information they put out because of an ideological bias.