These people are honestly scum, representing the apotheosis of cynicism in politics and media. If Facebook had any shred of credibility left they'd shut them down now after this article.
In India we have a media company whose singular objective is to expose fraudulent news on main stream media.
http://www.opindia.com/
A blogger dedicated to media exposure is a big twitter celebrity
http://www.mediacrooks.com/
Funny to see an article complaining about the state of the mainstream media... posted to FOX News. One in a long line of media orgs writing stories about "the media" as if they aren't an integral part of it. Pot, meet kettle.
I am unable to see the logic here. Fox news continues to support diversity of opinion lot more than CNN or ABC. The author in question was a consumer reporter with ABC who was fired once he started changing his own opinions based on evidence.
Imagine if these knuckleheads were not just going for clicks but actively being paid (say by a super PAC) to inflict damage to the other side? At lest right now it seems the damage inflicted is just collateral damage for clicks.
I think they are so disgusted with the system, they're trying to say "fuck it all" and grab some cash and hopefully hasten the crash and burn of the "modern media".
That was the impression I got as well - after all this has all the hallmarks of some Bennington grad's "social experiment" - but they went about it in the worst way possible. Rather than say satire or even their own reportage, they simply lied and raked in the dough.
Unfortunately the media isn't going anywhere. NYT, who got it so wrong when it mattered the most, added 41k net subs in the week following the election
That applies to the main stream media too. They too stoke fear and hysteria and undoubtedly are far more powerful and influential.
Here is a good summary : http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2016/10/26/john-stossel-rulin...
In India we have a media company whose singular objective is to expose fraudulent news on main stream media. http://www.opindia.com/ A blogger dedicated to media exposure is a big twitter celebrity http://www.mediacrooks.com/
These fake news writers are small fish...