[piotrjurkiewicz]

All of you are complaining about fake news, but what about omitted news?

What's the point in having a news source which presents only/mostly true news, the same time ignoring huge amount of those ones which do not fit their political line?

This will result in people having a false image of an overall situation, exactly the same as fake news will.

Moreover, I think news omitting is the root cause of fake news problem. People see certain events happen around them. They know these events are true because they see them with their own eyes. But they do not see reports on these events in mass media. The same time alternative and partisan media report these events, people see them on their FB timelines. So they redirect their trust towards these media and FB. If this schema repeats for years, they can trust these media so much that they can accept fake and unbelievable stories (which are also naturally more likely to appear in partisan media). And refuting these stories by mass media makes them even more sound in their eyes, especially if they once saw these media refuting stories which were real.

And this applies to both sides.

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OTOH the media also loves to report non-newsworthy events, making them appear to be more common than they are. We now return you to our developing "missing white woman" story...