I speak from experience not from some article. But I guess I'm the fool right?

(01-24-2018 05:14 PM)Fitbud Wrote:  So the new rule now is that we aren't allowed to speculate or it's fake news?

No.

The rule is the same as it's always been.

Speculation (by definition) is not NEWS. If you call it news, then yes it IS in some ways 'fake'. It's fake until it's substantiated. THEN it's news. News doesn't have to have all the answers, but it does have to engage in significant due diligence.

Reporters are held to very high standards to avoid becoming tabloid journalists, because they serve a very important role in our system and they therefore get away with things that most people would not..... and that bar has been routinely lowered over the past decade or two... mostly due to the internet and the rush to be first with a story.

SNL's weekend update has nothing on most of today's 'news'... except that lots of people can't tell which one is serious and which one isn't.