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Those awards, just like the Nobel peace price or Academy Awards mean absolutely NOTHING these days. It's just liberals giving other liberals awards.
Evidently nothing means anything these days, Trump supporters are going to believe anything they want and will eventually find a blogger to support their points.
As a former DC area resident who grew up on WaPo, I remain hopeful that they have a few Woodward/Bernstein's on staff now, and they will uncover tRump's illegalities that will lead to his impeachment.
The WaPo is not fake news. You can read any article and find the facts that back it up. Fake News has no basis in fact. Does the editorial page lean left (Brat specfically cites the editorials in this article)? Yes, the editorial page is very critical of Trump. But the WaPo has also always had conservative editorials that were extremely harsh against Obama (Charles Krauthammer, George Will, Michael Gerson), yet both Will and Gerson cannot seem to find a nice thing to say about Trump of late.
I have seen WaPo cited here by those on the right when a positive article is posted.
Brat is using those words to play to that base that buys into conspiracy theories.
Evidently nothing means anything these days, Trump supporters are going to believe anything they want and will eventually find a blogger to support their points.
Trump haters believe everything the read in the liberal media. Comes around, goes around.
Yep. I realized that back in 2015 when they started attacking EVERYTHING President Trump did or said. I have completely blocked CNN from my tv's and rarely watch any news and when I do its Fox News but at times I get tired of their crap as well.
Trump was president in 2015?? Who knew??
Actually, as opposed to your practice of blocking news you don't care for, I try to gather information from as many sources as I can, no matter which way they lean. I then try to boil down the varying points of view about the same topic or incident or individual, and think what's left is most likely to be accurate.
This practice pretty well eliminates excessive weight being given to the more extreme viewpoints (in either direction) and gives most weight to the middle ground, which seems to be more probable, sensible, and realistic. It does not work in all cases, and of course, outrageous things do happen and outrageous people do get themselves into positions of power - but it is not a bad practice and also allows me to see what those sources whose views tend to conflict with my own have to offer.
Journalists are lashing out because they are becoming obsolete. Their wages and employment rates have fallen dramatically in recent years, since the advent of the internet. One reason why so many journalists are leftists is because you have to be a true believer to enter what is objectively a crappy career. This has also lowered the quality of people becoming journalists.
Now there are companies using computers to write stories. It won't be long before automatically generated articles contain more facts and better checked facts than manually written articles. Just today I was reading an article about the state of European politics and the author wrote that Francois Fillon was the French left's candidate for president. He is the Republicans' candidate for president. This is like if a French journalist writing about American politics said Trump was a Democrat. It's inexcusably wrong, and the context meant it was not merely a typo. The author actually thought Francois Fillon was the Socialist candidate. Many people in this forum could have fact-checked this but it slipped through all of the gates and got published. It's here: Commentary: Europe on knife edge of uncertainty, maybe catastrophe | Reuters
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VA Congressman: Washington Post is just Fake News
