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Re:Fake News Challenge by untog on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @05:25PM (#13545999)
You're getting downvoted for this and I don't think you should be. The recent flood of fake news is very different to honest reporting that fails, and even very different to opinion-led reporting that presents a side. It is deliberately factually incorrect news, created and promoted simply to get clicks and profit from advertising. There is absolutely no journalistic merit to it.
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Re:Fake News Challenge by icebraining on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @07:55PM (#13547077)
I didn't downvote, but one can agree that the two approaches are very different, without accepting the presumption of the intentions behind the NYT approach. Are they more honest, or do they just happen to serve a different audience?

After all, telling outright lies is just amateurish; the NYT has been shaping society's perspective on facts for over a century.

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