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from the honesty-is-the-absence-of-the-intent-to-deceive dept.
[...] what exactly is "fake news" and what effect is it having globally?
"I think there is a fundamental problem that fake news became a catch-all term to mean anything that we don't particularly like to read," explained Alexios Mantzarlis, who heads the international fact-checking network at the Poynter Institute.
[...] Renate Schroeder, director of the European Federation of Journalists, said countries "should be extremely prudent" and seek to balance freedom of expression and freedom of the press with combating hate speech and fake news.
Any effort to regulate social media should not go too far, either, since it can lead to censorship, she said.
"Our view is [that] to fight such propaganda, to fight such fake news, we need to invest in journalism. We need to invest in media pluralism. We need to invest in media literacy," Schroeder told Al Jazeera.
[...] Only 32 percent of people in the US said they had a great deal or a fair amount of confidence in the media "to report the news fully, accurately and fairly" in 2016, according to a Gallup poll. That is the lowest level recorded in Gallup polling history – the question has been asked annually since 1997 – and eight points lower than in 2015.
Trust in media declined overall across all EU countries in 2015, a European Broadcasting Union survey also reported.
Mantzarlis of the Poynter Institute said that to fight the fake news phenomenon, journalists should promote greater transparency in their work, and develop a robust corrections policy when mistakes do occur.
That may include "making [corrections] more detailed, explaining why the error was made, who made it within the newsroom, and how exactly the existing procedures failed," he said.
Schroeder added that the focus on fake news could potentially serve as a catalyst to reinvigorate the field of journalism.
Idea #3: Stop helping politicians cheat at debates. Idea #4: Stop reprinting corporate press releases as 'news.' Idea #5: Stop shilling.
Your ideas, Soylent?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 25 2017, @05:34PM (1 child)
Fox: mildly conservative
ABC and CBS: mildly to moderately liberal
NBC and CNN: absurdly liberal
If I had mods I'd mod you funny (although possibly your trolling). I almost lost a mouthful of coffee. I mean, calling Fox moderately liberal is somewhat amusing, but call NBC and CNN absurdly liberal is hilarious.
The 80's called and they want their Regan Rebulican's philosophy, *cough*, I mean NBC and CNN back!
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 25 2017, @06:03PM
Your idea of the "average American" gets severely mis-calibrated if you are surrounded by liberals. Actual conservatives are not happy that Fox was at best lukewarm about Trump, and yes they did elect him. Trump is your president.
A huge portion of the country consists of "people you would never spend time with". They mostly don't live in cities and don't do tech work. They mostly don't want to spend time with people like you, and people like you REALLY don't want to spend time with them. (liberals are more likely to cut a personal relationship due to politics -- so much for tolerance, eh?)
Alternately, you haven't seen CNN lately. About 5 to 10 years ago, CNN was moderately liberal.