Originally Posted by
gabosaurus
Fake news has been around for quite a while now.
When I went to NYC to protest the Bush inauguration in 2004, I found out first hand how desperate the news media are to create news and scoop each other.
Of all the protests I have been to, about 90 percent of them are peaceful. News people run around in a desperate search for the other 10 percent.
Police were working 12-hour shifts without meal breaks. Protestors and delegates alike bought them food and drink. That never ended up on the news. A newspaper cameraman offered me money to throw a rock through a store window.
You want to know why fake news exists? Advertisers like it because people read it. Pretty sad that people believe fake news more than real stories.
Did you accept the money?
Fake news exists because SENSATION sells...and virtually all 'journalists" (a loose term) want a scoop
or have wet dreams of earning a Pulitzer.
I have lost my mind. If found, please give it a snack and return it?
"I won't be wronged. I won't be insulted. I won't be laid a hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same of others"...John Wayne in "The Shootist"
A Deplorable!