GOP is making fake news sites to fool low-information voters

[pbrower2a]

Here's what the "South Michigan Update" has to offer:

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So who is behind the "South Michigan Update"?

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Enough said. The NRCC would never pay for offering "news" with any pretense of neutrality.

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Never mind that the incumbent in an R+3 district (vulnerable to a solid opponent if a subpar pol) is a 100% Koch stooge.

MI-07 would be a perfect district for another Gerald Ford, a conservative who can occasion make a principled break with his Party. The Republican Party has created plenty of R+3 or so districts, and the GOP has given every advantage to right-wing hacks like the incumbent in that district.  

[pbrower2a]

Meanwhile respected news sites, in order to get ad revenue, link to fake news stories that attempt to fool low-information consumers.  A larger trend where so much is being passed for journalism that isn't makes this possible.

Let's not forget the world's least lovely trend - journalists copying their stories from f'cking twatter.

Different pattern, but also execrable journalism. It is plagiarism. There's usually no way to verify what is on Twitter. The old standard of journalism was two independent sources followed by fact-checking. Such prevents (or at least deters) hoaxes, fabricated stories, and plagiarism.  Likewise, journalists need to be able to know and identify bias when they see it. When someone communicates the idea that a politician as "just another liberal" or "a right-wing hack", then there is surely some partisan bias. Don't they know the code words?

New technologies make journalism more vulnerable to propaganda, hoaxes, and plagiarism. It takes some wisdom to keep those out of one's journalistic efforts.