Originally Posted by PR_Glen

Robbie, every time you or anyone else, that holds any respect that is, call actual news agencies fake news you do damage to the entire industry. Fox, ABC, MSNBC, CNN, CBS... all are credible news outlets. Now, that doesn't mean that they aren't slanted in which way their stories lean. Most of those are very liberal biased, practically to a fault. However, they are the same news agencies that were reporting about clinton emails, about bill clinton impeachment, about gaffs from both bush's during their terms and about 9/11 when it happened and it's aftermath. They have not all of a sudden gone rogue and started reporting unsourced stories.

They are simply reporting stories that YOU do not like. Stories that YOU don't want to believe are true. Stories that YOU want to be made up. But the truth is that is not happening. Now they are reporting a lot of nonsense and non stories, no doubt. But none of it is fake... When you call it that it makes people with substantially lower intelligence look elsewhere for their news sources and when they do this they end up on the darkest parts of the internet who focus on driving up hatred (from both sides) and unsubstantiated conspiracies. Both can and have led to violence. This should not be our goal. Going to random blog sites is far far worse because they are accountable to nobody, just whatever gets the most views. There are never retractions. The mainstream media may get a bit nuts these days and even center around stories they shouldn't too much, but they are accountable at the end of the day and they are necessary to inform.