https://gizmodo.com/abc-news-broadcasts-fake-syria-bombing-video-thats-actu-1839028685 Um no sir...this is Kentucky. These people are human scum. This crap is believed by old folks who don't understand how corrupt the media is. I saw a screenshot of it and knew right away it was from a machine gun shoot that several ranges do annually. Look at all the people filming it with their phones. No ABC, this is not a fucking mistake you jerks.
True, but there was this fantasy image of the journalist as a crusader for truth from the early B&W movies through Woodward & Bernstein. MAy or may not have been deserved, but the current "journalist as the news" is a relatively recent development. Probably goes back to Wolf Blitzer, the SCUD stud.
Eh, there have been celebrity reporters through history. Those owning the publications have always had a slant to what they choose to publish. The only thing new is how many outlets there are and the speed we see the lies.
There has always been a slant but they're just making shit up now. It isn't slanted left, it's totally left.
I am just realizing this. I heard that it even goes back to Ike, as he claimed some fake news in his day.
Believe the Jeffersonian press claimed John Adams was a hermaphrodite. OTOH, I don't think the pro-Adams press used 'conspiracy theorists' as a counter argument. Difference between then and now.
Fake news is nothing new. The oldest example I have seen was a case of a missing child, blamed on Jews in Italy, in 1475. This little gem caused the entire Jewish community of Trent, Italy to be arrested and tortured.