Russian propaganda effort helped spread "fake news"

[EnglishPete]

     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.

     Reading things that you don't necessarily agree with also teaches you how to read critically. It's important to not find yourself being stuck in an echo chamber.

In the US, as the UK, leftist are far more likely than conservatives to be in a media bubble of news outlets to their own ideological liking. The most of the most powerful media outlets in the US legacy media, NBC, CNN, WaPo, NYT etc lean to the left just as in the UK the BBC (which is by far the most powerful news media outlet here)  leans to the left. This means it is far easier for leftists to avoid conservative media outlets than for the other way around to happen.

[EnglishPete]

"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.

For those of you who refuse to accept that the Washington Post story might be a fake news story based on dubious and thin propaganda because WaPo is a 'respectable' news organisation who would never allow such a thing to be published here's an article from the New Yorker Magazine

http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-propaganda-about-russian-propaganda

The New Yorker is just as 'respectable' as the Washington Post and in the above article they argue they point out that the WaPo article is based on dubious and rather thin propaganda (i.e. that it looks very much like a fake news story).

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You mean like when the Washington Post reported that Bernie supporters threw chairs or chanted English only? The Washington Post wants a monopoly on fake news.

[EnglishPete]

You mean like when the Washington Post reported that Bernie supporters threw chairs or chanted English only? The Washington Post wants a monopoly on fake news.

Exactly, its a propaganda site whose credibility has been severely dented in this election