Fake News?

One hesitates to use the term as it has been so effectively co opted and subverted by Trump into comprising of anything that criticizes him but that being said it is a genuine problem which afflicts not just the wilder shores of the internet but even sometimes it must be said the so called mainstream media.

Again one hesitates to push this too far as the term fake news has  ome largely discredited as I say through misuse and lazy habitual overuse but, I have to confess that when listening to BBC news bulletins it's very hard to suppress from time to time the inner voice that sometimes becomes vocalised into a loud shout of: Fake News!

It is more a case of emphasis and news selection priorities with the BBC than outright misreporting or conscious lying. More unconscious bias than downright corrupt journalism. Not so much yellow journalism as pink journalism. However in journalism the sins of ommission  can be just as bad as the sins of commission so we cannot let it off the hook for that. Whether this amounts to fake journalism is a judgement call but either way it is less than should be demanded from a public service broadcaster. But as I have said previously this is an insuperable problem with such a beast and the only solution is privatization where bias is a privilege of the newspaper or broadcaster and the public gets to choose which news agency and organ to patronize -not the State.