**** Elections thread *****

[surviva316]

Please explain.

Don't feel like doing a whole thing right now, but I basically just mean always immediately going to the nuclear word. Credibility of a news story is a whole spectrum and there is a whole variety of ways it can be compromised. Cherry picked information, conjecture, rumor, single unreliable source, single reliable source, single unvetted unreliable source, multiple reliable but unnamed sources, unvetted information, totally fabricated information, bias in presentation, bias in selection, bias to the point of intellectual dishonesty, honest mistake, typo, information taken out-of-context, deceivingly edited quotes, clickbait, exaggeration, you can go up and down and back up the list again. Everyone is different and needs to be treated differently by the media consumer. Only one of them is outright fake news and only one of those should be treated like fake news should be treated.

[wufwugy]

Don't feel like doing a whole thing right now, but I basically just mean always immediately going to the nuclear word. Credibility of a news story is a whole spectrum and there is a whole variety of ways it can be compromised. Cherry picked information, conjecture, rumor, single unreliable source, single reliable source, single unvetted unreliable source, multiple reliable but unnamed sources, unvetted information, totally fabricated information, bias in presentation, bias in selection, bias to the point of intellectual dishonesty, honest mistake, typo, information taken out-of-context, deceivingly edited quotes, clickbait, exaggeration, you can go up and down and back up the list again. Everyone is different and needs to be treated differently by the media consumer. Only one of them is outright fake news and only one of those should be treated like fake news should be treated.

What distinction are you using to call one outright fake and the other not?