The Mainstream Media: All Fake News All the Time

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The Mainstream Media: All Fake News All the Time. How will it end? Will they just go bankrupt after everyone stops paying attention? Will they try to keep this going for eight years?

16 Fake News Stories Reporters Have Run Since Trump Won

We are in the midst of an epidemic of fake news. There is no better word to describe it than “epidemic,” insofar as it fits the epidemiological model from the Centers for Disease Control: this phenomenon occurs when “an agent and susceptible hosts are present in adequate numbers, and the agent can be effectively conveyed from a source to the susceptible hosts.”

The “agent” in this case is hysteria over Trump’s presidency, and the “susceptible hosts” are a slipshod, reckless, and breathtakingly gullible media class that spread the hysteria around like—well, like a virus.

It is difficult to adequately sum up the breadth of this epidemic, chiefly because it keeps growing: day after day, even hour after hour, the media continue to broadcast, spread, promulgate, publicize, and promote fake news on an industrial scale. It has become a regular part of our news cycle, not distinct from or extraneous to it but a part of it, embedded within the news apparatus as a spoke is embedded in a bicycle wheel.

Whenever you turn on a news station, visit a news website, or check in on a journalist or media personality on Twitter or Facebook, there is an excellent chance you will be exposed to fake news. It is rapidly becoming an accepted part of the way the American media are run.

http://thefederalist.com/2017/02/06/16- ... trump-won/

The fake news stories described in detail include:

Early November: Spike in Transgender Suicide Rates
November 22: The Tri-State Election Hacking Conspiracy Theory
December 1: The 27-Cent Foreclosure
January 20: Nancy Sinatra’s Complaints about the Inaugural Ball
January 20: The Nonexistent Climate Change Website ‘Purge’
January 20: The Great MLK Jr. Bust Controversy
January 20: Betsy DeVos, Grizzly Fighter
January 26: The ‘Resignations’ At the State Department
January 27: The Photoshopped Hands Affair
January 29: The Reuters Account Hoax
January 31: The White House-SCOTUS Twitter Mistake
January 31: The Big Travel Ban Lie
February 1: POTUS Threatens to Invade Mexico
February 2: Easing the Russian Sanctions
February 2: Renaming Black History Month
February 2: The House of Representatives’ Gun Control Measures

and people think they're well informed lol

Quality control is 'on their honor', which is next to worthless if all involved are ideologues.

Fake news is nothing new, according to this interesting piece which is centred on the topic of "The Backfire Effect".

https://youarenotsosmart.com/2011/06/10 ... re-effect/

But DeVos did blather on about how firearms were necessary in Montana schools to protect against Grizzly Bear attacks.
I don't know all the details about the trans suicide rates, but to say that there hadn't been any kind of spike is ridiculous.

But let's look at real fake news:
Death panels as an integral part of Obamacare.
Most white murder victims are killed by blacks.
Hillary Clinton and Lady Gaga are part of a pedophile cult.
Putin didn't invade Ukraine.
Obama was foreign born.
Obama is a secret Muslim.
Muslim refugees are secret ISIS agents.
Obama had banned Iraqis.

I could go on and on about real fake news, none of which was ever reported by mainstream news sources, but by purveyors of falsehoods like Fox, Breitbart, Drudge, and others..

"The Backfire Effect". I like that term. I think all this left wing extremism has backfired on them. It seems like they've lost a whole lot of credibility.

Fox News closer to Conservative (rather than Liberal) news; FOX news... brought to you by FOX News...!

I didn't realize the 9/11 conspiracy deal was a left wing vs right wing thing. So what happened on 9/11/01 was supposedly all done by the Republicans huh? Interesting.

People who believe 9/11 was a US-provoked action come from all over the political spectrum.

It's more "conspiracy theorists" than anybody else.

Wikipedia 9/11 conspiracy theories

As always with Wikipedia use it as a starting point or overview only and look at the links

I edited this article from 2007-2012 or so. At that time it was very biased towerds the "official story"

I dislike: Breitbart, Fox News, CNN, RT, MSNBC, Washington Post

I like: The Economist, Foreign Policy, Spiegel, Reuters, Foreign Affairs, The Nation

I like a little less, but still find useful: New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Al Jazeera, Libération, The Guardian, BBC

A running tally has begun. I don't know if there's enough storage space on the web to contain all the fake news.

Fake News Rap Sheet: Last Week the MSM Was Caught Telling FORTY Lies

Welcome to week three of "This Week In Fake News!" Previous editions can be found here and here.

You will see one change in this week's list, with respect to the count. Rather than start the count over every week, this ongoing diary of Fake News will now use a cumulative number, an ongoing count. Put simply, last week's list contained 24 pieces of Fake News. The week prior was 12. That is a total of 36, so this week we will start with number 37.

This is not meant to be a gimmick. Rather, it is a way to more accurately understand and comprehend the breathtaking scope of the national media's rabid dishonesty.

The media told FORTY lies last week, for a total of SEVENTY-SEVEN separate incidents of Fake News in just three weeks.

Let's begin…

http://www.dailywire.com/news/13294/fak ... john-nolte

Including:
37. CNN's Jake Tapper Lies About Trump Not Offering Sympathy to Canada After Mosque Attack
38. Washington Post Caught Lying About "Illegal Guns" In Washington DC
39. Washington Post Caught Covering Up Boston Mosque's Extremism and Bigotry
40. Los Angeles Times Lies About Trump's "Shift" On NATO

And much, much more.