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Re:The Mark Zuckerberg Manifesto Is a Blueprint for Destroyi... by Hermel on Sunday February 19, 2017 @02:13AM (#13678525)
> If anything is destroying journalism, it's the fact that half this country does not care for fact vs fiction.

If you take a closer look, the established media is not so innocent about that. Most of them find it perfectly ok to lie for money every few minutes (TV ads)...

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Re:The Mark Zuckerberg Manifesto Is a Blueprint for Destroyi... by squarefoot on Sunday February 19, 2017 @02:31AM (#13678567)
"Most of them find it perfectly ok to lie for money every few minutes (TV ads)..."

Agreed, but if advertising first purpose was to tell verifiable facts it would have been called information. The problem here is people believing everything is thrown at them, especially if done by some popular figure.

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