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nxylas

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7. Is there any point to the M$M any more?

Thu Aug 23, 2012, 06:48 AM

Aug 2012

The standard defense against the inexorable rise of bloggers and sites like DU is that 1) journalists do the spadework while bloggers just report what journalists have found (which hasn't been true in years, 95% of journalists are content to merely rewrite press releases in their own words) ; and 2) a blogger can say anything, while "real" news sources fact-check their stories. Well, bang goes that argument.

(Edited to add: I'm aware that this was an opinion piece rather than a news story, but can you really trust the M$M when they plead that the fact checking of news stories is unimpeachable? Iraqi WMDs, anybody?)

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Newsweek admits that they don't factcheck - MediaMatters [View all] flamingdem Aug 2012 OP

f off newsweek samsingh Aug 2012 #1

That was shameful from them flamingdem Aug 2012 #2

Tina Brown monmouth Aug 2012 #3

Well so far I'm not hearing any responsibility taken for fact checking flamingdem Aug 2012 #4

Apparently nobody who is anybody fact checks ladym55 Aug 2012 #5

It didn't require ANY fact checking to see that cover was a ridiculous piece of propaganda. SunSeeker Aug 2012 #6

Is there any point to the M$M any more? nxylas Aug 2012 #7

Good point, with journalism like this flamingdem Aug 2012 #8

I've had friends cancel their subscriptions. I hope others follow. ailsagirl Aug 2012 #9