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Personally, I think the entire fake news phenomenon is a direct result of the sensationalist driven agendas of all of the "mainstream" media outlets, from the Bill O'Reilly's and the Hannity's to the Obermans, Rachel Maddow, Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, Drudge, Breitbart, etc. all of them. Their entire purpose is to sensationalize for ratings and call each other names like little kids on a playground for the sole purpose of creating a revenue stream. The immaturity of all this is simply astounding. And, of course, the divisive nature of the ongoing rhetoric does little more than encourage their followers to echo the same childish behaviour. NONE of them have journalistic integrity. The fake news nonsense is just an extension of that, tabloid "journalism".
The one thing it does do, however, is give further credibility to a guy like Charlie Rose (on PBS) who may be the benchmark these days for the North American media, insofar as interviewing and reporting. I watched him interview Paul Ryan last night and it's such a refreshing thing to listen to someone have a conversation with another person without have to sensationalize for ratings and ad revenues.
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