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>...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.

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.

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

But whatever floats your boat, I guess.

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