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

[DonFerrari]

Hiku said:

DonFerrari said:

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.

How they spin stories has never been surprising to me. That's why I always try to fact check with multiple sources, focus on the facts or direct quotes if they are present, and draw my own conclusions rather than listen to what they think I should be thinking, etc. And minor stories are more likely to slip through the cracks more easily than issues of national security, etc. And serious publications tend to redact stories with updated information if they're found to have inaccuracies, etc.

Just curious, but which major portals are you referring to in this case of the fish feeding?

In Brazil it have been on Globo (major outlet here) but I don't remember the one from USA.

https://noticias.uol.com.br/ultimas-noticias/afp/2017/11/06/trump-perde-a-paciencia-com-as-carpas-e-internautas-vao-ao-delirio.htm

https://g1.globo.com/mundo/noticia/trump-perde-a-paciencia-com-as-carpas-e-internautas-vao-ao-delirio.ghtml

http://internacional.estadao.com.br/blogs/radar-global/trump-perde-a-paciencia-ao-alimentar-carpas-japonesas-e-viraliza-na-web/

These three are among the major medias in the country. It is totally obnoxious in Brazil how the media hate for Trump and Republicans have made they post anything that can harm the image of Trump. Also they like to bash Temer who became president after Dilma got impeached.

The media have aligned so much with the left wing that in Brazil is quite hard to do the filtering (even more because they will repost the news of other portals if they align with their directives).

But I do agree with you that you have to read the news in a whole and extract what is factual and what is the spin. This is why I said that currently fake news isn't exactly about inventing news but on the severe spin done on anything to make it fit a narrative that may not even be related to the topic. And of course it happens from righ aligned media and left as well, just that nowadays the left have more representation so they will have more media spins on their favour.