Imagine a story....where your go-to-news source tells you X, with four facts. You go to social media, where the story/facts are told, and sixty people have a comment each.
You discover in ten minutes....that one fact is marginally true, and that the news source fails to mention five associated facts....which curtail the believability of X-story.
You start to look at the additional evidence laid out....giving them a 'score', and realizing that either your go-to-news source failed to tell the whole story, or is just not capable of digging into a story.
At this point, you lose confidence.
A year passes, and you go routinely to social media....realizing that your go-to-news source marginally works.
At this point....the term 'propaganda' creeps into your mind continually.
What can the go-to-news source do? Well....either they start to blend their stories with more facts....lessening your position and simply telling you a no-position story (you aren't pro-or-con). Or they can grasp that readership/viewership....is in decline.
So if you were a political party and counting on the news media to deliver your position....you might be in trouble right now.
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