Donald Trump tells Theresa May he won't visit the UK unless she bans protests

[DonFerrari]

Hiku said:

DonFerrari said:

I agree one shouldn't fight fake news with more fake news. And most of these so called "studies" are close to being fake studies on very bad premises and false corelation (won't really put the time to investigate it further anyway).

I just wanted to point out that your initial premise of the "serious and credible" work of the journalists aren't like that anymore for a long time.

My initial comment was that journalists (at least the ones we're talking about for major stories) can't just print any story they want without verifying their credibility. That's where verifying the identity of the source comes in. Which is why the reports on the leaked Comey documents were credible even before Comey confirmed it himself, etc.

"Serious and credible journalism" in general is a much broader subject, and they've been untrustworthy in this regard for decades now as far as I'm concerned. A very important story can get interrupted by the 'breaking news' that a Kardashian is pregnant. (That actually happened.)

Still if you look enough you'll be surprised at how much they really print about any story. Or do you think a major portal putting how much disrespectfull Trump was feeding the japanese fish had a lot of verification for credibility?

You may not believe but just recently some major outlet in Brazil remembered to create a "fact check" department, while the major broadcast TV was weekly making reports of OVNI and abduction.