| NightDragon83 said: Nice one, Rol! I especially love the recent outcry about "fake news" that the media has been promoting in the weeks since the election. Funny how some of the biggest fake news stories in recent history were created by mainstream media figures and journalists themselves, like Brian Williams' complete fabrication of being on a helicopter in Iraq that took fire (as well as other incidents), or the Rolling Stone article about an woman who was allegedly gang-raped at a UVA fraternity that turned out to be completely made up bullshit. Or go back even further, when in 2004 CBS News ran a story about George W. Bush's military service during an election year that utilized falsified documents to try to smear Bush, resulting in the firing of longtime anchor Dan Rather. I guess fake news is only bad when it helps Republicans / the political right. |
Funny, when Brian Williams and Dan Rather did their thing, they got fired. But when Bill O'Reilly lies about reporting in the Falklands or lies about that reporter committing suicide (in relation to the JFK assassination), he keeps his job and gets defended. When Trump promotes fake news about Ted Cruz's dad helping assassinate JFK, because he read it in a damned tabloid, he gets voters to turn on Cruz and crush him in the primaries and eventually get elected president.
Republicans/the political defend fake news that benefits them. Fake news from the left gets called out as such and has reprecussions. Fake news is bad, in general, but it seems especially bad on the right.
