Welcome to Margin of Error, a politics column from Tom Scocca, editor of the Indignity newsletter, examining the apocalyptic politics and coverage of Campaign 2024. Wednesday night, in Long Island’s 16,000-seat Nassau Coliseum, Donald Trump told the crowd at a rally for his presidential campaign that the United States—and particularly New York City, a few miles away—had […]
Part of the problem is that for the 6 debunking it, there are 26 uncritically amplifying that statement in a flagrant act of journalistic malpractice in service of ending democracy for clicks… Not that anything would change the minds of the MAGAt cultists at this point.
I think the 1st amendment has run amok in this country. Plenty of occasions where lying will get you in deep shit. Calling yourself a “news” org and lying should be illegal.
Or if one anonymous source on FB indicates it might have a sliver of truth to the statement, nevermind it was debunked by 6 media outlets.
Part of the problem is that for the 6 debunking it, there are 26 uncritically amplifying that statement in a flagrant act of journalistic malpractice in service of ending democracy for clicks… Not that anything would change the minds of the MAGAt cultists at this point.
I think the 1st amendment has run amok in this country. Plenty of occasions where lying will get you in deep shit. Calling yourself a “news” org and lying should be illegal.
It’s also thousands of literally-fraudulent AI-written propaganda sites misrepresenting themselves as local news: https://www.newsnationnow.com/business/tech/fake-news-sites-outnumber-us-newspaper-sites/