For years, the mainstream media has complained loudly about smaller news outlets they consider “fringe,” who have been stealing their audience by offering what they have snidely referred to as “alternative facts.” After years of declining viewers and subscriptions, the fake news media is really starting to worry about the effects of fake news on American society.
NBC News’ “Meet the Press” recently hosted a panel of mainstream media journalists who discussed what could be done to reduce the amount of disinformation being presented to the public.
The gist of the discussion was a circular agreement among the panelists: The real problem, when it comes to disinformation, is that Trump and his supporters refer to the carefully packaged political-propaganda-disguised-as-news-coverage as “fake news,” which, in the minds of the panelists, demonstrates how Russian-directed agitprop is undermining the sacred American institution of a free press.
Well, excuse me. I couldn’t help but notice the panel didn’t discuss anything specific that NBC News, The New York Times, or The Washington Post could do to pare their own spread of disinformation; no, their focus was on other news media outlets that they believe need to change how they are doing their business in “the era of Trump.”
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