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Originally Posted by TheSquealer
You are playing semantics. There was a time when reporting was about reporting verifiable facts by people who held themselves to high standards, published by an entity which held itself to high standards... not just reporting made up drama because someone said something on record. There was also a time when the only people that would report randoms shit someone said as "news" was The National Enquirer.
As Denzel Washington said the other day "if you don't read the news, you're uninformed, if you do read the news, you're misinformed". That is where this country is now in terms of news and reporting and where a 24hr news cycle has taken things.
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No, I am not playing semantics.
Poor reporting is not fake news.
I agree wholeheartedly that the journalistic standards in our country have gotten worse as the fight to get "The Scoop" in the 24 hour news cycle occurs but that is not make it fake news.
Fake news is made up stories being "knowingly" reported as fact.
So, while the girl's story is fake and her reporting of it on face book would qualify as fake news the media's reporting of the fact she claimed it is not fake news. Is it newsworthy? I would not think so and that is where the journalistic standards come into play.
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