Charles Johnson: If I were a right wing operative this would be the perfect time to float some false photos and reports to the media. They’re in a feeding frenzy, chances are pretty good they won’t fact check shit.

If I were a right wing operative this would be the perfect time to float some false photos and reports to the media. They’re in a feeding frenzy, chances are pretty good they won’t fact check shit.

Once the sharks are in frenzy mode they won’t look too closely at what they’re biting into.

like this for example

Somehow this makes it worse

so WaPo is just making shit up now

no, the WaPo is relying on "sources" to make up shit, and they're failing to fact-check that shit.

like some sort of “lying press”

What's the German word for.. no, wait!!

🙀🙀🙀

journalistic standards are in the MUD, jesus christ

I got a degree in Journalism, and I took a class on journalism ethics, and this failure by the reporters to do the hard work of fact-checking angers me something fierce. And it's been like this for decades now. >:-(

I suspect so-called “journalists” may never have been educated in journalism. Maybe they have a literature degree or similar. Because I don’t understand how how ANYONE who has taken an ethics class and works in the journalistic field wouldn’t do their due diligence. Is laziness that prevalent?

Or Russia for that matter.

It’s almost like the Times are willingly allowing themselves to be a conduit for disinformation. Taking a set of facts and inferring a conclusion that doesn’t follow at all from what they’ve reported.

Can just lop off those first three words.

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