[tokenizer]

> They might sell the same article to Russia Today, the New York Times, Fox, Al Jazeera, and the Times of India, so they can't cater to one crowd's political biases.

All of that is mainstream news. This whole fake news thing is a part of the cultural war. Religious/Conservative people simply don't trust Mainstream media. To them, all of them are liberal and highly bias. Enough to omit facts for their narratives.

Example: https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2012/05/19/just-another...

Sources, Reports, Officials, Reporters, etc - News is HUMAN god dammit! No such thing as non-bais, and every story should be investigated, and not appeal to the authority of the organization publishing it.

[mikestew]

When you follow Reuters method of manipulation you end up with this analogous example: If a stranger said she saw you at McDonald’s eating a cheeseburger; and your neighbor said he also saw you eating a cheeseburger at McDonald’s; well…….

….. as long as the CCTV system at McDonald’s is broken then you can say “evidence fails to show that I ate at McDonald’s”.

Though I am not a trial lawyer, it seems to me that the last sentence would be absolutely correct. But when you have a narrative to support...

[pmoriarty]

"Religious/Conservative people simply don't trust Mainstream media. To them, all of them are liberal and highly bias."

People on the left don't trust the mainstream media either. To them, the mainstream media is way too far to the right and highly biased.

For many examples, listen to CounterSpin, a show created by media watchdog group FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting).[1]

Also, though it's not specifically media-focused, Democracy Now! often reports many instances of right-wing bias in the mainstream media.[2]

[1] - http://fair.org/counterspin/

[2] - https://www.democracynow.org/