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Re:Disinformation for hire, a shadow industry, is quietly bo... by giantg2 on Monday July 26, 2021 @09:24AM (#27959036)
Do other tv/cable news networks print retractions? I can't remember any, but maybe they have a specific webpage you have to go to in order to see it? I doubt any of the non-news programs on those networks do, and those comprise the majority of the programming. So maybe it's just hard to find for the little bit of actual news.
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Re:Disinformation for hire, a shadow industry, is quietly bo... by rbanffy on Monday July 26, 2021 @09:58AM (#27959415)
> I doubt any of the non-news programs on those networks do

My impression is they only have opinion programs and no news reporting whatsoever.

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Re:Disinformation for hire, a shadow industry, is quietly bo... by giantg2 on Monday July 26, 2021 @10:38AM (#27959900)
I'm not sure since I get most of my news online. I thought they had like 2 hours per day that were non-opinion news.
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Re:Disinformation for hire, a shadow industry, is quietly bo... by rbanffy on Monday July 26, 2021 @10:53AM (#27960112)
The HN crowd is not the typical Fox News audience.
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Re:Disinformation for hire, a shadow industry, is quietly bo... by knownjorbist on Monday July 26, 2021 @12:24PM (#27961403)
In this very thread they are regurgitating talking points from fox punditry.
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Re:Disinformation for hire, a shadow industry, is quietly bo... by giantg2 on Monday July 26, 2021 @12:12PM (#27961234)
I don't just mean Fox. MSNBC, etc seems to mostly be talk shows too.
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Re:Disinformation for hire, a shadow industry, is quietly bo... by knownjorbist on Monday July 26, 2021 @12:23PM (#27961394)
This is exactly correct.
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Re:Disinformation for hire, a shadow industry, is quietly bo... by fortuna86 on Monday July 26, 2021 @12:02PM (#27961105)
Stories online, when altered, are labeled as such with corrections.

Several outlets have been caught scrubbing past headlines that were proven false, but that's more an indictment on them.

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Re:Disinformation for hire, a shadow industry, is quietly bo... by giantg2 on Monday July 26, 2021 @12:14PM (#27961269)
"Stories online, when altered, are labeled as such with corrections."

I get that. But how do the TV news programs do it? I don't remember them starting with, or including at all, a corrections segment.

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Re:Disinformation for hire, a shadow industry, is quietly bo... by fortuna86 on Monday July 26, 2021 @12:26PM (#27961428)
Rarely. Most news isn't "breaking" on TV, even if they do they refer to the online story. So that's where stories are corrected, because that's the official record.
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Re:Disinformation for hire, a shadow industry, is quietly bo... by giantg2 on Monday July 26, 2021 @12:34PM (#27961527)
Do they actually refer people to the online story, or do you just mean they are using that story to regurgitate to the viewers? I highly doubt most of the viewers are recieving the corrections if they're only given online.

Yeah, when there is breaking news it seems there's a ton of speculation and bad information given.

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