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Comment by zombieprocesses | Hacker News Reader

Russia's narrative? It's the narrative of Trump and the liberal media.

With trump calling everything he disagrees with "fake news" and the liberal media calling everything they disagree with "fake news", it's disingenuous for the media to blame russia. It's a scapegoat. Throw in foxnews and the conservative media and their attacks and accusations of "fake news". And you have modern america.

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Someone didn't read the article. That's about how Russia weakened Ukraine to soften them up for invasion.

>...to heighten the level of doubt about all news among the target population.

And trump and the liberal media are the main culprits of causing that doubt. As I said, the russia is just convenient scapegoat. And that in and of itself isn't helping people trust the media.

Everytime I see an article about russia now, I can't help but roll my eyes.

I was actually sort of poking fun at the apparent intent of your comment.

But whatever floats your boat, I guess.

So you're saying that regardless of the quality/reliability o the article content, you pre-emptively dismiss it? Sounds like this is a you problem rather than a media problem.

It is a media problem, though. For my part I have a serious case of fact-checking fatigue which has lead me to just opt out of reading news media altogether.

Reporting the news is only half an outlet's job. The other have is to convince the public that they're presenting a factual, relatively unbiased view.

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