12-21-2016, 01:00 PM
(12-21-2016, 12:52 PM)BmorePat87 Wrote: I think there are two good uses of the term "fake news" and you are bringing up good points.
The first usage that I agree with is how SSF used it in this thread. A story deliberately misled and, arguably, outright lied to the readers.
The second usage is actual fake news. Just made up stories, often times originating on fake websites, sometimes picked up by more "legitimate" sites.
Maybe we need a harsher term for the first usage because, in my opinion, it is worse when someone generally accepted to be a journalist at something considered to be a news organization lies or fabricates stories. At least fake news sites can be clearly identified as fake news (by someone looking with an objective eye).
+5,000
It is absolutely worse for a journalistic source to engage in the kind of behavior that caused this thread to be created. The problem, for some, is that this notion does not fit into their preconceived partisan definition of the fakenews talking point. Including deliberately false information, and opinion presented as fact, in a hard news story is far more insidious than a completely false story created by a Macedonian teenager so he can make some money, get bottle service at the club and get laid that weekend. We should expect better from a journalist than a 19 year old trying to get laid.
