This too is a major grievance. Unsubstantiated claims from uncredited nobodies. Literal fake news is taken for gospel. Until it's disproved, but the damage has already been done. The corrections don't penetrate as deeply into the minds of the masses and are more often than not overlooked.
This too is a major grievance. Unsubstantiated claims from uncredited nobodies. Literal fake news is taken for gospel. Until it's disproved, but the damage has already been done. The corrections don't penetrate as deeply into the minds of the masses and are more often than not overlooked.
I think much of it is down to budgets, journalism was a skilled profession but the bottom dropped out of it with the rise of the internet. Now many MSM outlets report what people are saying on Twitter because it's cheaper than doing actual journalism.