Longtime 9NEWS anchor Adele Arakawa announced yesterday that she will be retiring in 2017 after over four decades in the business, and if you haven’t seen her commentary yesterday about “fake news” and rumors about her departure from the station, it’s worth watching:
Recently, there’s been a lot of attention put on “Fake News”.
It’s ugly, insidious and undermines the very values I’ve worked hard to exemplify for my 40 plus years in this business.
It’s bad for elections, too.
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Hmm. She may be sincere and well-intentioned in her commentary, but Michael Roberts has a point. It may be a matter of degree, but this isn't the same thing:
http://www.westword.com/news/adele-arakawa-retiring-from-9news-how-fake-was-story-predicting-her-exit-8572067
You're not wrong, but I do think it's a bit pedantic to say "this isn't the same as fake news."
FTVlive or whatever could have dug around a bit more and gotten the real story before running a sensationalistic headline. They could have held the news until 2017 since she's not leaving for months. They could have done any number of things that "real" news outlets do, or should do, or we should demand that they do.
But they didn't. They wanted to be first. They wanted to break the news.
So now they have. And we can all go back to not knowing what the hell FTVlive is.
Hope it was worth it.
This is how Democrats deal with reality now. All news they don't like is "fake news."
Funny that there is nothing in the article about either political party. Looks like you're residing in your personal, non-conservative, echo chamber again.
I think that the word you're searching for is "projection".