They can manufacture fiction faster than an army of fact checkers can rebut it. And the rebuttals don;t get the same publicity as the original fiction does.
Not saying fact checking and calling them out isn't worth the effort, just saying that the strategy has to be to pick and choose which of the lies to go after.
The bigger bang, and it has been going on, and it will continue to go on, is to damage their reputation, so that people don't trust what they say. Then there is no need to check them.
CNN, NBC, CBS and ABC probably drew straws to figure out which of them would go with the version that got NBC is trouble.
“They can manufacture fiction faster than an army of fact checkers can rebut it.”
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Then, we need a bigger army. Hopefully with the Internet, that is a trend for the future.
You're right. Just look at the unending uproar over the forged documents used by Obamao and how it finally hounded him from office.
Whoops...parallel universe.