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The gutter politics article that the Washington Post published about Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore, might raise more of a question about the character of the Washington Post, than it does about Roy Moore.
Is it really necessary to publish an article in a newspaper any time someone accuses a politician of something ? Is this actually "NEWS" ? I'd say it could be considered that, IF there was any evidence to point to any truth of that article. Problem with the Post's Moore article is, it has zero evidence to suggest any credibility at all.
This seems more like the kind of smear stuff that you might find in some cheap tabloid, that rather than reporting factual news, makes money by selling sensationalist trash, that has a superficial excitement about it.
This article really never should have appeared in the Post, but then the Post hasn't exactly been doing such a top notch job of keeping out of the fake news category, in recent years.
My ultimate verdict on the Post - TABLOID.
Is it really necessary to publish an article in a newspaper any time someone accuses a politician of something ? Is this actually "NEWS" ? I'd say it could be considered that, IF there was any evidence to point to any truth of that article. Problem with the Post's Moore article is, it has zero evidence to suggest any credibility at all.
This seems more like the kind of smear stuff that you might find in some cheap tabloid, that rather than reporting factual news, makes money by selling sensationalist trash, that has a superficial excitement about it.
This article really never should have appeared in the Post, but then the Post hasn't exactly been doing such a top notch job of keeping out of the fake news category, in recent years.
My ultimate verdict on the Post - TABLOID.