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Originally Posted by HalvOnHorseracing
Why do you think the NY Times has fired every reporter they caught lying or making up stories? Jayson Blair and Mike Finkel were two high profile examples.
How about NBC suspending Brian Williams for making stuff up?
What percentage of their stories do you think are fake?
When I was on the speaking circuit, I had a slide that I called "Policy by Tinkerbell." It referenced people who thought if they wished for something hard enough, it became true, just like bringing Tinkerbell to life.
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For me, its a 3 headed monster.
1) I dont know which stories are true and which are false, no doubt that not all of them are false or misleading, but i don't have time to read an article and then research that article to see if i'm being lied to, so even if i think 1 percent of the articles there are false or misleading and i have to read other articles on the subject in order to form a 'consensus' on believability, i have a problem with that.
2) Reporters who are beholden to Carlos Slim and his 'world views' could possibly be writing things that aren't true to their hearts or things that they would otherwise write if they had their own twitter feed or blog and were free of an 'employer'. I don't need news from a 'reporter' when i can go to twitter or youtube and get the real thoughts of a journalist who isn't beholden to Carlos's blog, i get their real feelings without anyone telling them what narrative to push.
3) Im a Trump fan, i'm generally a democrat who leans towards the middle at heart, i'm not a staunch republican, i can't stand Romney, or Bush or McCain, so when those guys were running, i was rooting for the left. I'm also a 'candidate guy' and don't have a party, if i like the candidate, that's where i'm going and the NYT is anti Trump for the most part, so i try and make it a habit of not reading news from people who don't like Trump, i'd rather read and listen to Trump fans and organizations who support him, so even if NYT was all real, they're still left biased, so i would tend to not read their articles just on that basis alone, fake or not.
