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The U.S. Media Yesterday Suffered Its Most Humiliating Debacle in Ages

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That's why they call them fake news. They really need to tone down the emotions and improve their fact checking and concentrate the news on facts, otherwise the people will just classify them as biased, lying, conspiracy media instead of a legible news source.

Otherwise Trump is by default winning the "battle".

Trump is just exploiting a weakness media companies created themselves with sloppy work and a reliance on cheap talking heads shows. They made it easy for him.

The Intercept is doing great work. The media needs to be shamed for their blatant lack of integrity.

There is no evidence at all of any lack of "integrity", here. This was simply a stupid mistake. That's it.

That "mistake" aspect is addressed in the article.

Multiple sources make it unlikely it was "mistake". It was almost certainly disinformation. The "mistake" was running with unverified information.

Consistently making "mistakes" that go in one direction indicates lack of integrity.

> Multiple sources make it unlikely it was "mistake". It was almost certainly disinformation. The "mistake" was running with unverified information.

When multiple sources agree, it's not unverified—it's a deliberately spread lie.

> Consistently making "mistakes" that go in one direction indicates lack of integrity.

Consistently getting lied to in one direction implies that the people spreading these lies have a specific ideological goal in mind.

Why do you disagree with the evidence presented by the intercept? It seems to me that there was an intent to misinform the public, either by multiple sources deliberately feeding the wrong information to multiple news agencies or the news agencies misrepresented how many independent sources had verified the information.

I guess he doesn't count Fox or Brietbart as part of the US Media? Since they intentionally do worse every single day.

Citation? Please point to a factually incorrect sorry - not opinion piece you disagree with - corroborating your claim. Greenwald posts concrete examples of stories that had to be retracted in the past week alone. Please present a single example of a story retracted by either of those two outlets.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/12/08/roy-moore-accuser...

Source: http://thehill.com/homenews/media/363990-fox-news-issues-cor...

> Please present a single example of a story retracted by either of those two outlets.

Like when doing science, retracting bad information is a good sign; refusing to do so doesn't make you a better news source, it just makes you one that tries to hide your mistakes.

And AGAIN.

Trump has just demanded (and got) an apology from a Washington Post reporter that posted a misleading photo suggesting a Trump rally was half-empty. (It really was a sellout.)

Hacker News is a site for readers who think. No matter what your politics happens to be, we should all recognize the dangers present in disingenuous journalism.

If "U.S. Media lied to by multiple sources that collaborated to spread misleading information, issue retractions" is the most humiliating debacle in ages, then they're doing pretty damn good.

Outrageous. In my opinion, the extreme partisan bias shown by CNN, NBC, and others is a great reason to have voted for Trump. (BTW, I voted for Gary Johnson.)

Democracy has no chance to survive when the news media is 'owned' by one political party.

This is a symptom of a problem, a big problem.

And what about the extreme partisan bias shown by Fox News?

That's precisely the kind of story we don't need helping discredit media.

Then they ought try and avoid doing things to discredit themselves I imagine.

12/1: ABC: ".@realDonaldTrump colluded-Russia" 12/2: ABC: "RETRACTED"

12/4: Reuters: "Mueller subpeona Trumps banking" 12/5: Reuters: "RETRACTED"

12/8: CNN: Wikileaks sent .@DonaldJTrumpJr secret email 12/8: RETRACTED

Why is this fagged?

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