[lazide]

I think you and I have had wildly different experiences.

If I know something about what is in the paper, it’s rare that the paper is correct. It’s almost always missing some critical piece of information, or wildly misrepresenting the situation to attempt to simplify it to the point your average person will read the article.

[Zarathruster]

On a related note, everyone should know about Gell-Mann amnesia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect

[jacobr1]

That is the technicality here. Bullshit is getting spewed, but in most cases, direct falsehoods aren't gett reported. If you quote someone saying something untrue, the paper didn't present a falsehood, same with bias, omission, emphasis and misleading narratives or framings. If you avoid stating facts and just cite sources, you can maintain, that the media outlet didn't lie. But only in the limited technical sense of direct commission.