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[–]Akali 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

When the media lies, they limit the trust people have in them. It has notting with someone pointing out they lies. It has everything to do with people seeing the lies. Calling wallstreetbet nazi is just dumb. No one believe it. Yes wallstreetbet is stupid, but nazi? Really? The media destroy their own trust factor on a daily basis. Their trust factor have gone downhill since the 1970. It's not trump making the claim. He just pointed out what many already knew.

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Yes, we all have problems with the news media, especially after the retirement of the FCC Fairness Doctrine during the Reagan admin (giving rise to Fox News &c). I am not referring to all news media. I am referring to news media at the right side of this:

https://ei.marketwatch.com/Multimedia/2018/02/28/Photos/NS/MW-GE557_MediaB_20180228115701_NS.jpg?uuid=659e15a6-1ca8-11e8-83b2-9c8e992d421e

Twittler referred to the middle group here as fake news, whilst pushiung talking points by the propaganda sites on the right. This has done more to divite the US, because of those disinformation, racist and misleading talking points than almost any other divisive strategy since the early 20th century.