Hiku said:
DonFerrari said:
And we have a lot of newspapers that give a lot of focus on the unverified part, making a narrative of it and a small print saying it isn't verified.
Sorry man, where I live there are at least 10 news a day trying to damage trump even thought we have bigger problems locally. Every single thing they can put against Trump they will, at the same time robbery and murder they will "protect the identity of the possible society victim".
So the "fake news" really isn't anymore just putting fake news (which usually are very evident) but the push media in general is putting to discredit the president, With like 90% of those news being irrelevant or "someone said so", which is ridiculous and take prime space from important reporting.
You talked about the seriour process of fact checking and source verification, sorry but that isn't really a priority anymore and even big outlets are doing a poor job on it and we have plethora examples on it... we even had one "fake news" that NK had doctored tapes of World Cup to declare internally that they were the champion... it was a so well done prank that all Brazilian newspaper put that as real (I believe some international done as well).
The dignity and credibility of newspaper and media outlets dropped when they started to compete against internet and rushing news, clickbaiting and etc.
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Unverified stories have always been incredibly important, and always will be. In every aspect of news, whether it's unverified weather reports to let you prepare for the possibility of a storm, to reports of a suspected assailant in an area so that people don't get in harms way before they're able to verify it with 100% accuracy, and it becomes too late.
This is not something new by any stretch of the imagination.
That there are bigger problems than Trump is certainly very debatable as it varies from story to story, and your perspective. Because the president's actions affects so many people, not just in the US but globally in the US as well, the importance of his decisions can be astronomically larger than most other stories. Though I agree that news outlets often focus on stories that have less priority. Because their main agenda is generally sensationalism. What sells the most. This has always been a big problem with them.
By the way I'm curious about that NK World Cup story. Do you have a link to it? I recall also hearing about them supposedly editing out Brazil's goals against them, but I didn't hear that they claimed they won the WC. And I don't remember where I heard this.
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http://www.naosalvo.com.br/desafio-aceito-25-fazer-da-coreia-do-norte-campea-da-copa/
Say what you want but they crossed the point of unverified to posting anything and claiming unverified just to win clicks a long time ago. There is no reason to defend several of the new modus operandi from journalists nowadays.
About more serious problems, not sure where you are from, but Brazil have a lot of issues more important than to know "Trump throwed a lot of food for the japanase fish in an unrespectfull manner"... whish was also fake, because the PM of Japan done it seconds earlier and he just mimicked... that didn't stop a lot of major media outlets from reporting it.
At the same time we have an ex-president being under judgement for scandals of corrupution that cross the multibillion barrier.
