We need to fight fake news with truthful journalism

I think a lot about the current state of journalism. It seems like it is just about dead. And that’s not good thing when you consider the rise of fake news.

We must have truth tellers in our society. Can journalism be saved?

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The Facebook “fake news” button is not the thing that is going to save it. Two of the groups that are going to approve what is or what is not fake news is the Washington Post and the Associated Press.

The Washington Post reported last week that Rex Tillerson’s aides were not to make eye contact with him. Unfortunately, it wasn’t true, which the AP pointed out. The reporter for the AP said this Tillerman story is not true and that news sites repeating the story over and over on the internet is making it difficult to address very real issues.

How is a Facebook “fake news” button going to save real information, when the Post and AP can’t even agree on what stories are real and what are not?

Journalism should be saved because we cannot live without it. We can’t be free without real information.

But journalism has to change. Reporters’ biographies should state there voting preferences. And it should be at the top of their pieces. So, if it’s a news piece, you can easily see their biases. That the kind of transparency we need.

The overall journalistic leanings of a site should be made clear. So you know who you’re dealing with. Newsrooms need to demand intellectual diversity and hire outside recruiters.

It’s key that we save journalism because we are getting bombarded with an information overload, we need to preserve the truth.

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