Russian propaganda effort helped spread "fake news"

[ApatheticAustrian]

if something similar happens in russia the country is in a war-like-state.

if something like that happens in the US, no one cares.

[ApatheticAustrian]

"the media" (aka accountable media companies filled with people whose name you know and who try to get things right OR correct themselves if they get something wrong, aren't taken "seriously" by people who prefer information from sources without accountability and without names and without corrections.

[ApatheticAustrian]

if everybody lies, nobody lies. ^^ the major goal of nowaday russia media policy

[ApatheticAustrian]

if everybody lies, nobody lies. ^^ the major goal of nowaday russia media policy

Not at all. Some news outlets are clearly more reliable and trustworthy than others. Wikileaks  for example is generally seen as more reliable than the Washington Post.

wikileaks is not news.

wikileaks is a possible source for news.

[ApatheticAustrian]

     There's lots of garbage news from all over, and the MSM should not be casting stones. I like the strategy one of my friends took: you read from the mainstream (CNN), the left (HuffPo), and the right (Breitbart). At least that way you get a variety of views, even if they are still highly biased, if not outright junk.

doing so makes you a high-information-consumer anyway and far better secured against all kind of biases.