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When the BBC did fake news
A good article in al Jazeera, they're basically bashing the BBC for being a bunch of hypocrites.
Written by an Iranian who looks back to 1953 overthrow of the Iranian regime.
"The role of BBC in the overthrow of Mosaddeq was not out of character or unusual. In a piece titled Why the taboo tale of the BBC's wartime propaganda battle must be told published by The Guardian, David Boyle writes about characters like Noel Francis Newsome (1906-1976), who "as director of European broadcasts ... led what is still the biggest broadcasting operation ever mounted, in 25 different languages for a total of just over 25 hours a day, across three wavelengths." "
Fake news has existed for thousands of years. The Trump supporters in the US act like it didn't happen until a few years ago (or some unspecified time because they have no idea).
The reality is fake news is probably at its LOWER ebb right now. It still exists, but many people will claim "fake news" simply because what they're hearing is not what they want to hear.
The news media will always be biased. It's a simple financial arrangement. People want their news to tell it to them in a way they understand, with the readers' own bias. Without that bias they won't trust the media they're reading or listening to.
But bias isn't fake news. Bias is usually an opinion, seeing things in a different light, putting more power on one piece of evidence than another piece of evidence. Humans do this all the time.
A good article in al Jazeera, they're basically bashing the BBC for being a bunch of hypocrites.
Written by an Iranian who looks back to 1953 overthrow of the Iranian regime.
"The role of BBC in the overthrow of Mosaddeq was not out of character or unusual. In a piece titled Why the taboo tale of the BBC's wartime propaganda battle must be told published by The Guardian, David Boyle writes about characters like Noel Francis Newsome (1906-1976), who "as director of European broadcasts ... led what is still the biggest broadcasting operation ever mounted, in 25 different languages for a total of just over 25 hours a day, across three wavelengths." "
Fake news has existed for thousands of years. The Trump supporters in the US act like it didn't happen until a few years ago (or some unspecified time because they have no idea).
The reality is fake news is probably at its LOWER ebb right now. It still exists, but many people will claim "fake news" simply because what they're hearing is not what they want to hear.
The news media will always be biased. It's a simple financial arrangement. People want their news to tell it to them in a way they understand, with the readers' own bias. Without that bias they won't trust the media they're reading or listening to.
But bias isn't fake news. Bias is usually an opinion, seeing things in a different light, putting more power on one piece of evidence than another piece of evidence. Humans do this all the time.