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Unfortunately it's way past being wrong on the election. Both WaPo and the NYT made no pretense about selling out to the Democrat Party. How is any objective observer supposed to believe anything they print about Trump from now on? The Trump candidacy was a disaster for the press.
Unfortunately it's way past being wrong on the election. Both WaPo and the NYT made no pretense about selling out to the Democrat Party. How is any objective observer supposed to believe anything they print about Trump from now on? The Trump candidacy was a disaster for the press.
There is a difference between "selling out" and just not reporting favorably on a candidate who openly disparages the majority of the most respected media outlets in the country.
In retrospect, this was Trump's plan all along to create doubt and mistrust in the media so that he can always claim bias and has a ready excuse should he lose. At the end of the day, he proved the most media savvy of all candidates and even more savvy than the Media Bosses themselves - probably thanks in no small part to the work of his good friends Stephen Bannon and Roger Ailes.
Apparently anything that's reported cannot be true if Trumpkins don't agree with it, because Hillary lost.
Just don't ask them to verify their assumptions with proof. Then you'll be told to "Google it" or it will be claimed that "everyone knows/it's common knowledge".
In a recent story, the Washington Post says that this is definitely the case, based on information provided by two groups of what the paper calls “independent researchers.” But the case starts to come apart at the seams the more you look at it.
Fortune Magazine picks apart the WaPo article - In a recent story, the Washington Post says that this is definitely the case, based on information provided by two groups of what the paper calls “independent researchers.” But the case starts to come apart at the seams the more you look at it. Russian Agents Are Not Behind Every Piece of Fake News You See
So there you go libs. You have the WaPo creating fake news about fake news. Just in case you're wondering about why Democrats lost the election...
Did the Post say Russian agents created "every piece of fake news"?
Of course, I know the only credible sources accepted by many Trumpkins are right-wing, like Fox News, Alex Jones/Prison Planet/InfoWars, Breitbart, Liberty News Writers, World Net Daily etc.
Who are the "experts" ? Reporters from the Pravda on the Potomac ?
If you'd read the article, you'd know already. Perhaps you refuse to click a link associated with the "lamestream media" because you think that doing so "enriches" them.
Here's what you asked for:
Clint Watts, a fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute who along with two other researchers has tracked Russian propaganda since 2014.
Watts’s report on this work, with colleagues Andrew Weisburd and J.M. Berger, appeared on the national security online magazine War on the Rocks this month.
Another group, called PropOrNot, a nonpartisan collection of researchers with foreign policy, military and technology backgrounds, plans to release its own findings Friday showing the startling reach and effectiveness of Russian propaganda campaigns.
The researchers used Internet analytics tools to trace the origins of particular tweets and mapped the connections among social-media accounts that consistently delivered synchronized messages. Identifying website codes sometimes revealed common ownership. In other cases, exact phrases or sentences were echoed by sites and social-media accounts in rapid succession, signaling membership in connected networks controlled by a single entity.
PropOrNot’s monitoring report, which was provided to The Washington Post in advance of its public release, identifies more than 200 websites as routine peddlers of Russian propaganda.
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