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Widespread Coverage of Liberal Hate Crimes ‘Study’ Shows Media’s Fake News Problem
Daily Signal ^ | December 01, 2016 | Katrina Trinko

Posted on 12/01/2016 3:31:50 PM PST by detective

So much for taking America’s “fake news” problem seriously.

Ever since Donald Trump was elected president, there’s been an abundance of hand-wringing over the “fake news” that supposedly is rampant on social media.

Yet missing has been any kind of serious searching among the mainstream media about whether it could learn any lessons from this election—and whether reporters and editors are holding themselves accountable to their supposed values of objectivity and rigorous reporting. And a new “study” presents Exhibit A as to why the mainstream media should reconsider its own practices.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: fakenews; fakerape; media; rollingstone; splc
More fake news from the MSM.
1 posted on 12/01/2016 3:31:50 PM PST by detective
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Incredible that they didn’t see how the “fake news” angle was one they really should’ve steered clear of.

I guess it’s an occupational hazard of working inside the most powerful echo-chamber and thought-shaper ever created. You start to believe you’re own nonsense. You start to get high on your own supply.

Bad news. Doesn’t matter what kind of dope you’re selling.


2 posted on 12/01/2016 3:36:41 PM PST by Steely Tom ([VOTE FRAUD] == [CIVIL WAR])
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Fake is going to come back to haunt the liberals. Conservatives are going to play whack a mole with Fake News for years to come.

Conservatives, to a fault, cover their tracks, source, and under state. It’s the lunatic left that turns a warm breeze into “Global Man Made Warming”.


3 posted on 12/01/2016 3:40:16 PM PST by Professional
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4 posted on 12/01/2016 4:00:04 PM PST by blam (Jeff Sessions For President)
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bkmk


5 posted on 12/01/2016 4:00:23 PM PST by Sergio (An object at rest cannot be stopped! - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight)
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Re : Post #3 *Fake is going to come back to haunt the liberals. Conservatives are going to play whack a mole with Fake News for years to come.*
6 posted on 12/01/2016 4:06:16 PM PST by heterosupremacist (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God ~ Thomas Jefferson)
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7 posted on 12/01/2016 4:27:02 PM PST by Bon mots
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