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posted by Fnord666 on Saturday December 10 2016, @11:55AM   Printer-friendly
from the I-just-don't-know-what-to-believe-anymore dept.

From rt.com:

Facing threats of legal action, the Washington Post has been forced to add an editor's note distancing the paper from a dubious website, PropOrNot, which it had initially endorsed as a group of nonpartisan experts on "Russian propaganda."

The Post came under fire on social media for its provocative hit piece which claimed that "Russia's increasingly sophisticated propaganda campaign" actually influenced the US presidential election.

[...] Jim Moody, an attorney representing the website, stressed in a letter to the Washington Post on Sunday that the newspaper "did not provide even a single example of 'fake news' allegedly distributed or promoted by Naked Capitalism or indeed any of the 200 sites on the PropOrNot blacklist."

From fair.org:

That a group of Cold Warrior hacks would publish such a blacklist is not a surprise; that one of the most established names in American news would uncritically parrot it was. Its reporting, writing-up and referencing is a prime example of how fake real news on real fake news spreads without question.

USA Today (11/25/16), Gizmodo (11/25/16), PBS (11/25/16), The Daily Beast (11/25/16), Slate (11/25/16), AP (11/25/16) The Verge (11/25/16) and NPR (11/25/16) all uncritically wrote up the Post's most incendiary claims with little or minimal pushback. Gizmodo was so giddy its original headline had to be changed from "Research Confirms That Russia Played a Major Role in Spreading Fake News" to "Research Suggests That Russia Played a Major Role in Spreading Fake News," presumably after some polite commenters pointed out that the research "confirmed" nothing of the sort.


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  • (Score: 2, Flamebait) by jmorris on Sunday December 11 2016, @12:42AM

    by jmorris (4844) on Sunday December 11 2016, @12:42AM (#439842)

    You do realize that is exactly why you guys were total idiots to attempt this. After years of shouting "Faux News" at a news source a lot of people trust, as the legacy media's levels of trust and approval have been falling toward single digits, your credibility is shot. It was entirely obvious when this "Fake News" meme was launched that it would quickly be reversed upon you. It is far more likely that the average person, if forced to pick between CNN and DrudgeReport as "fake" will pick CNN. Drudge generally just points you to stories that aren't covered widely, CNN gets caught lying pretty regular.

    This was entirely obvious to all of us on the Right who squealed with glee when it was launched, all instantly realizing this was a desperation tactic from an enemy about to be destroyed at long last. Equally obvious was that it was a coordinated and planned attack since it sprung from from almost every legacy outlet in a 24 hour span, which means the leaders of the Left didn't realize this was a dumb move. We give thanks for the incompetence of our foes.

    Yes there will be damage to our side as you go through your death struggle, but when it over we will be here. Will twitter? Will MSNBC? Newsweek is already walking dead, wave bye bye to em.

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  • (Score: 0, Troll) by Francis on Sunday December 11 2016, @01:57AM

    by Francis (5544) on Sunday December 11 2016, @01:57AM (#439858)

    Wait, what?

    Who says I have any respect for CNN, MSNBC or any of the non-Fox news stations. Plus, the only reason we're in this mess is because Fox went to court to get itself ruled as non-news. None of the other channels did that.

    Also, since when is there a leftwing news media? They've all been rightwing slanted for as long as I can remember.