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20 years ago...nope....wouldnt have even questioned it
back then, there were editors that had the guts to know when to run, and when not to run crap stories
but times have changed....the twitter universe has forever changed the journalistic world
now they cant be the first....so they need the headlines to sell....and FAKE NEWS is one way to sell newspapers
is is all fake? absolutely not....but yes, where we never questioned the integrity of the journalists of past, that is the norm today
name me someone like edward murrow or cronkite that works today....that when they speak, they are believed 100%
i cant think of one person in the news....not one....too much bias one both sides of the aisle, and they no longer just report the news
they become part of the story
And what, other than your idea of Twitter (which only really repeats the news that other outlets have delivered), has changed?
Millions of people standing up screaming "Fake News!" That's what has changed. We never heard about claims of fake news until Herr Trump got into office. I'd almost bet the ranch that if Obama were still in office, the majority of the people complaining about unnamed sources would be curiously silent right about now.