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fucking_tragedy·

It is. There are currently two popular narratives about the media going on in the US right now

1) The inherently liberal mainstream media is conspiring against Trump and the silent majority

2) Fake news sites have a lot of traction in social media circles and are influencing decision making

A lot of the sources cited by people in camp 1 are the sources being complained about in camp 2.

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I may be missing the bigger picture here, but it seems like you could simultaneously believe these two things. Even if you're a conservative who believes most mainstream media is biased towards liberals, isn't there a clear difference between say, Breitbart, which is a right-wing news/opinion site, and the recent flood of WordPress blogs set up by teenagers in Bulgaria that pump out outright fabricated clickbait news for money? Why would right-wing politics require you to defend the latter?

Why would it require you to defend the former? Because they have a brand name doesn't make them any more truthful, and they have a long track record of hate and lies.

...and they have a long track record of hate and lies.

So does every left-leaning outlet.

See what I did there?

> So does every left-leaning outlet / See what I did there?

I see you typed some letters in a comment box. But doing that that doesn't create truth or fact. What separates real knowledge from a string of letters?

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