Charles Blow to Trump: "There's no such thing as fake news."
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There’s no such thing as fake news. If something is false it doesn’t get printed. If something false slips through, it gets corrected. There is NO SUCH THING as fake news. You label unflattering news fake, but the news about you is horrible because you live your life horribly.
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Or, if it's on a website, it gets corrected but there's no way to contact those who read it to update them. How often do you go back on Friday or Saturday to reread all the stuff you read on Wednesday and Thursday?
Worse yet, there's misleading news, where it's almost for sure that the reporter knows it's misleading and wants to mislead. Or perhaps not give offense. Old saying: Half a truth is worse than a lie.
Maybe I'll quote Blow as defending Fox News and RT. After all, if it's in the media it's either true or it's quickly corrected.
I know full well that's not what he means. Not on the least. He's on a team and protecting that team--and Fox, RT, and many, many other media sources are *not* on *his* team. But the two points stand: corrections issued in a way that don't produce any real correction, and half truths by omission of context or other relevant facts.
BTW, that "correction" thing is also a problem for researchers. If you are doing newspaper research you might find the original article on page 1 but overlook the correction on page 18. Or run into what I have from time to time--you look up the original quote from something that was translated, and you find that the translation is accurate but the sentence before or after the quote, not translated, radically alters the meaning.
In like manner, I heard a sermon in which the minister ranted about a newspaper article. "Here it is, proof that ___________ is evil." With all the quotes, which seemed quite over-the-top to me. I had trouble imagining any serious politician would say these things, except one of the most extreme, while drunk and possibly on drugs, and in the privacy of his closest and looniest supporters ... and that only after checking for bugs or recording devices. After the sermon I asked to see the clipping he'd been reading from and which, in fact, he said he'd read in it's entirety. (He saw me, the thorn in his side, in the congregation and knew I'd say, "But context!"
Yet unread by him, at the bottom, was the last line penned by the writer. "This is writ sarcastic."
the Onion (and Borowitz report)... but #notmypresident has destroyed satire 
