We have all heard about the idea of”fake news”. News. Many times, however, it seems to be nothing more than someone claiming that a specific news item has inaccuracies. Or sometimes, It’s just that people don’t like what the news story says.
Yesterday, I read a news story about the secret service not having enough money to pay its people because the agents had too many people to guard and too many events they had to attend. I noted it with interest, but didn’t think much more about it after reading it.
It turned out to be a story that was unsubstantiated by the media. Standard journalism involves collecting information from multiple sources and verifying them for accuracy. Just because one person says something doesn’t actually make it true. It’s important to verify with multiple sources.
This is not the first time I’ve run into this. It appears that the media is sometimes abandoning journalistic principles simply to get a news story. In this case, It was just information fed from one source. It’s distressing to know that we have to do a better job individually of looking at news and judging whether it is true or not. This should not be the case, but it’s the state of things right now.
Http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/aug/22/usa-today-runs-by-the-fake-news-story-playbook/
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