Non-MSM Fake News

sts60 said:
My service is even more covert, so you don't have clearance to verify my several Ultraviolet Hearts, nor my Congressional Medal of Honor presented by President Washington, during my service as a Navy Sea Lion (like SEALs, but more elite). And Fox would have me on if I praised Trump for his leadership at Thermopylae (during which he personally led a helicopter rescue under fire).
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Ah, but what they won't tell us is why that helicopter needed to be rescued.

Ask the hard questions, sheeple!
 
Fox News retracted the story and apologized when they found out they had been fooled. Of course, WaPo, NYT, and hundreds of others publish fake news every day and never apologize.
 
BrooklynBaby said:
Fox News retracted the story and apologized when they found out they had been fooled.
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Well, it did take them ten days to retract a story that wouldn't have needed retracting if they had taken the time to check into it a little more closely first. That raises an interesting point, too- with the immediate pressure to fill air time with news (that they also don't have the time to go into in any depth anyway), is TV news inherently less trustworthy, because that pressure obviates the ability, or overrides the need, to check into the stories a little more closely? (Not just picking on Fox News here, either) And this isn't really a criticism- maybe it's just the inevitable nature of the beast, that when serious news is demanded from and then conveyed by a medium that's more fundamentally one of entertainment, then we get what we pay for instead of what we ask for, and maybe what we really only wanted anyway.
Of course, WaPo, NYT, and hundreds of others publish fake news every day and never apologize.
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Sure. A few examples might make this a stronger tu-quoque, huh? Otherwise, it's just one of those things that people say because they've heard it repeated, usually prefaced with "of course"- sort of the reason we have fake news. (I won't even hold you to the "every day," since that just sounds like an expression- you know, one of those things people say without really thinking about or meaning seriously)
 
BStrong said:
... The 10 days between broadcast and retraction most likely involved the lawyers going through material to make sure they had their foot on base - they should have done their due diligence before running the story in the first place.
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Or more likely, they were about to be exposed. :rolleyes:
 
BrooklynBaby said:
Fox News retracted the story and apologized when they found out they had been fooled. Of course, WaPo, NYT, and hundreds of others publish fake news every day and never apologize.
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Please list examples of these hundreds of fake news stories which the WAPO and the NYT refuse to retract when proven wrong.
Or, to use a classic Poker expression, put up or shut up.
 
Trebuchet said:
My sarcasm detector has run up against Poe's law. Can someone help me out here?
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We'd love to, but the claim to which you responded seems to suffer from a severe case of "lack of evidence", which means it will likely live forever...

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Pretty minor thing to pick at considering all the actual controversies going on these days. I didn't see the story or the retraction.

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Ah it was on FB that would be why I missed it.
 
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Isn't it around the point where if some security commentator is on fox news that means they are lying about their credentials? They get bit by this rather a lot.
 
BobTheCoward said:
I like the Wikipedia definition



Not correcting a non deliberate story is bad. But there is nothing there about the retraction process.
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They deliberately left it out there with "the intent to mislead". Ergo fake news.
 
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