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Originally Posted by sarettah
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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You are being anal about what is factual... what i am saying is that there is a specific INTENT.
The problem is not that CNN worded a headline that is technically or factually correct or not, the problem is that CNN reported NON NEWS designed to incite and did so in a manner which most of the public and media will morph into an untrue event which is believed to be news and fact as it gets re-reported by other media outlets.... with no one being directly culpable.
This is the very objective of the media these days.... brushing right up against that line, pushing emotional buttons on sensitive issues, knowing EXACTLY what is going to happen and where its going to go and then when it doesn't go as planned, Michael Brown becomes "a gentle giant" and Zimmerman becomes a "white latino" and on and on it goes until there is literally no truth at all to the "news" story which is driving their ad revenue and a city is being burned to the ground.