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Since people don't tolerate what doesn't support their beliefs is the public responsible for fake news?

At least the effectiveness of it.

Posted - February 11, 2017

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  • 52953
    Your sentence contains two independent clauses that should either be separated by punctuation between them or by breaking them down into two separate sentences entirely. Oh, and neither one seems to have anything at all to do with each other.

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      February 11, 2017 7:36 AM MST
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  • 5614
    .. and you validate my unwritten rule of not responding to first repliers. They almost always are trolls motivated by HATE.
      February 11, 2017 8:07 AM MST
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  • 52953
    (HATRED)
      February 11, 2017 10:46 AM MST
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  • 13395
      February 11, 2017 8:27 AM MST
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  • 2217
    The problem is that the media simply regurgitate what is fed to them (fake or otherwise), instead of going out and doing some proper investigative journalism. 
      February 11, 2017 12:26 PM MST
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  • 6023

    Malizz is correct.  There are very few true reporters, these day.  What we have are "journalists" ... think of writing in your journal/diary, but for public consumption.  It's mostly "infotainment".

    Of course, there has always been slanted news.  When the town paper is owned by an individual, that individual puts their slant on the news they report.  When the media is owned by a corporation, who has to get advertisers to pay for the media ... the news is slanted not to offend the advertisers.

    Your best option is to listen to news from a variety of sources.  And by that I mean, from other nations.  Most of the news in America is run through one or two "wire services" - so it's all the same, no matter which media outlet you view.  But by listening to the same story reported from other nations, you at least get enough different biases to "read between the lines" and figure out what is REALLY going on.

      February 12, 2017 9:28 AM MST
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