{"id":61524,"date":"2016-12-27T07:00:36","date_gmt":"2016-12-27T13:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=61524"},"modified":"2016-12-25T21:47:54","modified_gmt":"2016-12-26T03:47:54","slug":"the-problem-with-liberal-media-talking-about-fake-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=61524","title":{"rendered":"The Problem With Liberal Media Talking About &#8220;Fake News&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The left-leaning mainstream media &#8211; which has in the life of this blog:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>embraced (and still embraces) a &#8220;fake&#8221; but &#8220;accurate&#8221; story about George Bush&#8217;s Air Guard service that sported faked documents and references to officers who had retired from the service by the time they signed the purported document<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wikileaks-dnc-and-cnn-colluded-on-questions-for-trump-cruz\/article\/2606651\">Actively colluded with the Hillary Clinton campaign<\/a> and is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wnyc.org\/story\/how-not-normalize-trump\/\">actively and quite publicly looking for ways to sandbag the incoming Administration<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Faked &#8220;research&#8221; about firearm defense, and done is so badly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=33004\">lil&#8217; ol&#8217; me was able to shred it <\/a>by my lonesome&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230;is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/12\/25\/us\/politics\/fake-news-claims-conservatives-mainstream-media-.html?action=click&amp;contentCollection=business&amp;module=NextInCollection&amp;region=Footer&amp;pgtype=article&amp;version=newsevent&amp;rref=collection%2Fnews-event%2Fdonald-trump-white-house\">wondering why people don&#8217;t trust it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps because of paragraphs like this (emphasis added by me):<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"381\" data-total-count=\"3720\">\u201cWhat I think is so unsettling about the fake news cries now is that their audience has already sort of bought into this idea that journalism has no credibility or legitimacy,\u201d said Angelo Carusone, <strong>the president of Media Matters<\/strong>, a <strong>liberal group that polices the news media for bias<\/strong>. \u201cTherefore, by applying that term to credible outlets, it becomes much more believable.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"381\" data-total-count=\"3720\">Media Matters is a Soros-funded propaganda mill. \u00a0It is a &#8220;media watchdog&#8221; only to the extent that an attack-PR firm is a watchdog of anything; relentlessly scouring media for congruence with liberal chanting points with all the grace of a German funk band.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"245\" data-total-count=\"5596\">Others see a larger effort to slander the basic journalistic function of fact-checking. <strong>Nonpartisan websites<\/strong> like Snopes and <a href=\"http:\/\/factcheck.org\/\">Factcheck.org<\/a> have found themselves maligned when they have disproved stories that had been flattering to conservatives.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"245\" data-total-count=\"5596\">Neither is non-partisan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"245\" data-total-count=\"5596\">While I think good reporting\u00a0<em>is\u00a0<\/em>essential to a representative Republic, I think our current mainstream media will not be the ones to perform any kind of &#8220;good reporting&#8221;. \u00a0 The sooner it goes out of business, the better for democracy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The left-leaning mainstream media &#8211; which has in the life of this blog: embraced (and still embraces) a &#8220;fake&#8221; but &#8220;accurate&#8221; story about George Bush&#8217;s Air Guard service that sported faked documents and references to officers who had retired from the service by the time they signed the purported document Actively colluded with the Hillary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[326,321,130,230],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-alt-media","category-big-left","category-tc-media-bias","category-the-fact-check-scam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61525,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61524\/revisions\/61525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}