Fake news wouldn't be such a problem if there weren't also people with power calling actual truths fake news.

Sorry I'm not objective enough to understand the intricacies of the Nazi Pug Lad™ case. 

Also shame to hear the media killed Lobster Daddy, what a loss.

Checking his video history, as well as, you know, the title of the video, tells me pretty conclusively: twat.

Your contribution pretty much clinches it 

I wish I could still trust those sources. I was a huge fan of fivethirtyeight.com from 2008-2016 and loved data journalism in general. I always knew Nate Silver (From fivethirtyeight) was a liberal but never doubted the he presented the facts as they were. Then came the 2016 primaries and Silver and his colleagues continuously misread every poll and number imaginable because they clearly showed Trump was about to win. Then they proceeded to say Trump had no chance to win the presidency for a long time. I've been pretty burned from data journalism ever since because as a data journalist you can spin numbers in a lot of ways to support your political agenda (confirmation bias) and people will be even more influenced by that than your average news report - because hey, it's all backed up with numbers, right?

Same in the german elections: The AfD (right-wing party), of which I was NOT a fan, polled at about 8% for months. Then, a week before the elections, pollsters suddenly had AfD numbers rise to above 10% and they got 12.6% in the elections, higher than any pollster predicted. And the low polling numbers continuously had been used by the media to tell people that no one wanted to vote AfD, the AfD was a Nazi party, etc. Also, the boss of one of the biggest german polling institutes Forsa, always commented on his institutes' numbers and used to spin them (in hindsight it definitely was spinning) to tell people how unpopular the AfD was. I voted liberal in the elections but I later regretted not voting AfD - because the behaviours shown by polling institutes and the media was very, very undemocratic in my opinion: Basically scaring people away from voting AfD by using numbers and stats which turned out to be wrong (and they must have known at that point because they had underestimated the AfD in literally every single local election in the year before). 

Please tell me this is carcasm.

Nice pic btw.

Thanks for the post OP. I will watch it later. Its been really hard to find a good source of news today. What I do is read both sides and try to get to my own opinion. Unfortunately journalism nowadays are dominated by people just wanting to push their own views on the world. I believe it always has been like this, but definetelu got much worse in the past 20 years.
Ive been living in UK for the past 9 months and you have no idea how hard it is to have reliable and realistic news on brexit.

Have you ever watched a lecture of Jordan Peterson? This is a guy who teaches people how to get out of PTSD and depression and seriously discusses how horrors like Auschwitz can be stopped in the future. He also talks a lot about philosophy as well. How anyone can think of Peterson as "a clown" is beyond me, he probably helped way more people cope with the horrors of their lives than 99% of humanity and is often very a-political. 

Same with Dave Rubin (whom you didn't mention): I like Dave Rubin's YouTube show a lot and watched a lot of episodes - then, one day, a major german news publication (Der Spiegel) called him "one of the leaders of the fascist alt-right movement". What the hell? This guy talks to both sides and actually had a very heated discussion with a black civil rights activist who said black people aren't shot by police out of proportion - Dave did not believe him! He's also gay and jewish but somehow he is a fascist?

Sometimes, I don't understand the world anymore. I studied political science because politics always fascinated me but I've grown very tired of it because there are absolutely no standards anymore, both on the left and the right - someone disagrees with you? He must be an idiot, or a racist, or a fascist or an SJW. The problem is that democracy in the western world is currently threatened by both left-wing and right-wing extremists and both camps are getting larger. But none of it is taken seriously, because people are so quick to take sides and dismiss the arguments of the other side. Ok, personal rant over lol. 

Dude.... No. 

LOL, you're funny

Yes.  Simply yes.  The people whingeing about "Fake News" are typically whingeing about news they don't like--and it's typically because of negative press for Dear Leader.  Take your feelings out of the equation and you find that the MSM is  generally far more reliable, reputable, and based on the facts than fringe media.  

Go take a few history classes. Thank me later.