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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 Wednesday April 26 2017, @01:54AM
That sort of 'fake news' was easy to spot. It was obvious. Tabloids would only appeal to the people who do not care they are mislead or can really not tell. A small enough group to not really mater.
There is a different style that most people are starting to see. I personally saw it about 20 years ago. I came across it by accident.
So I went in search of 'unbiased news'. This thing does *not* exist. Once you recognize the half truths and obvious corporate ads you can not un-see it. I had to tune completely out of it. It just filled me with anger that they kept trying to trick me. Swing by someones house and it would invariably end up on CNN or FoxNews. Both suck ass. I would beg whoever switched it to 'the news' to turn it off and interact with me instead of tuning me out to get their fix of the news. Lost a good friend over it years ago. Maybe he wanted it that way. Would go over there and he would turn on the news. I made it clear 'invite me over and then turn that shit on, I leave'.
As I researched it I realized it had been going on a *long* time. Hell today someone showed me a headline which had a triple negative. I had to get out a decoder ring to figure out what exactly it was saying. Yet our current 'MSM' is full of this sort of thing. Has been for years.
People that report it as real are laughed off stage
Frankly they should be for the bullishit they try to shovel on us.