Good Reporting, Fake News and the Loss of Journalistic Trust
It’s a sad state of affairs when the news media and its front line of professional reporters are taking constant hits like a punching bag.
Hottest media topic…is it fake or is it real?
David Letterman used to do a comedy piece having the audience determine whether photos of various entertainers and celebrities were wearing their real hair or a toupee’. The audience would shout out, their opinion…” real” or “fake” at each photo. Sound familiar?
Internet Outdoes Pinocchio With Fake News Sites
An old adage has warned us that you cannot trust everything that is on the internet. If anything, the current presidential election was proof that this "old" tip still holds true. We already know traditional news sites tend to be at least somewhat biased to one of the two ends of the political spectrum, but why would there be outright fake news?
