# Remind Me Again How "Fake News" Is a Right Wing Problem? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 15, 2016, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remind-me-again-how-fake-news-is-a-right-wing-problem/774783 "2016-12-15T15:26:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![doorhinge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a5b964/32.png) [@doorhinge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doorhinge)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2016, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remind-me-again-how-fake-news-is-a-right-wing-problem/774783/41 "2016-12-19T16:26:22Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > All news agencies get things wrong occasionally. The difference is whether they correct the mistake or double down on the lie. How could these news agencies get things wrong? Don’t they verify the information BEFORE they publish whatever is the latest horseshit of day? Isn’t that how they get things wrong “occasionally”? By not vetting their stories properly? Perhaps if their viewers/readers/advocates demanded that the news agencies make ACCURACY their number one priority, instead of trying to be the first to “report” any version of a story that best increases a news agency revenue, there would be less fake news. ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2016, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remind-me-again-how-fake-news-is-a-right-wing-problem/774783/42 "2016-12-19T17:02:30Z")
So you’re still having trouble with the difference between “being wrong based on early reports” and “making shit up.” Okay. ---
**Author:** ![doorhinge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a5b964/32.png) [@doorhinge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doorhinge)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2016, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remind-me-again-how-fake-news-is-a-right-wing-problem/774783/43 "2016-12-19T17:51:58Z")
> [@DrFidelius](#): > > So you’re still having trouble with the difference between “being wrong based on early reports” and “making shit up.” > > Okay. Hahahaha. “Being wrong based on early reports!” Early reports which were not properly verified, but the LSM chose to use anyway. It looks like one of the LSM outlets beat the other LSM outlets in the race to be the first to publish another incorrect/fake/horseshit “news” story. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2016, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remind-me-again-how-fake-news-is-a-right-wing-problem/774783/44 "2016-12-19T18:03:57Z")
See again my comment about the field of astrology versus the field of physics. Physicists – like any scientists – often come to incorrect early conclusions, until better evidence makes them revisit their findings. The fact that they came out with incorrect early conclusions does not make them anywhere near the same as astrologers. ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2016, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remind-me-again-how-fake-news-is-a-right-wing-problem/774783/45 "2016-12-19T18:09:34Z")
> [@doorhinge](#): > > Hahahaha. “Being wrong based on early reports!” Early reports which were not properly verified, but the LSM chose to use anyway. It looks like one of the LSM outlets beat the other LSM outlets in the race to be the first to publish another incorrect/fake/horseshit “news” story. :smack: I apologize but I am not familiar with the acronym “LSM” ---
**Author:** ![doorhinge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a5b964/32.png) [@doorhinge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doorhinge)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2016, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remind-me-again-how-fake-news-is-a-right-wing-problem/774783/46 "2016-12-19T18:30:08Z")
> [@DrFidelius](#): > > I apologize but I am not familiar with the acronym “LSM” Apology accepted. ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2016, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remind-me-again-how-fake-news-is-a-right-wing-problem/774783/47 "2016-12-19T19:25:25Z")
> [@DrFidelius](#): > > I apologize but I am not familiar with the acronym “LSM” It’s a phrase often used by Sarah Palin fans – “lame stream media” – to mock news sources that are not conservative-leaning. ---
**Author:** ![Zyada](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zyada/32/3028_2.png) [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2016, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remind-me-again-how-fake-news-is-a-right-wing-problem/774783/48 "2016-12-21T16:12:56Z")
> [@doorhinge](#): > > By not vetting their stories properly? You keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means ---
**Author:** ![doorhinge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a5b964/32.png) [@doorhinge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doorhinge)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2016, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remind-me-again-how-fake-news-is-a-right-wing-problem/774783/49 "2016-12-22T15:37:40Z")
> [@Zyada](#): > > You keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means (underlined added) Really? What do you think it means? Are you saying it doesn’t mean examining a record to see if it’s accurate? Are there any other parts of the Cambridge Dictionary definition you disagree with? \*vet verb [T] us ​ /vet/ -tt- vet verb [T] (EXAMINE) ​ to study something, or to examine a person’s record to see that it is acceptable or accurate: All agencies must carefully vet new workers. Before we signed this contract, our lawyer vetted it.\* > **[vet](https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/vet?q=vetting)** > > 1. a person with a medical degree trained to take care of the health of… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remind-me-again-how-fake-news-is-a-right-wing-problem/774783.md?page=2)