Fixation on Fake News Overshadows Waning Trust in Real Reporting – The New York Times

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Fixation on Fake News Overshadows Waning Trust in Real Reporting

Fake news should be shunned, but the discussion of it misunderstands a new media world in which every story is at risk of being discredited, not by argument but by sheer force.

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/19/business/media/exposing-fake-news-eroding-trust-in-real-reporting.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0

Something is deeply wrong when the pope’s voice, reputation and influence can be borrowed by a source that describes itself as “a fantasy news site” to claim that he has endorsed a presidential candidate, and then be amplified, unchallenged, through a million individual shares.