Don’t Believe It!: How Lies Becomes News – Alexandra Kitty Gecertificeerd

Do you think shamed journalists Jayson Blair and Stephen Glass were rare bad apples? Far from it, they were just the ones stupid enough to get caught. Alexandra Kitty demonstrates with example upon example how manufactured news is endemic in our media and shows the reader how to spot suspicious stories.
In the last few years, the journalism industry has cut costs by eliminating important safeguards: companies have reduced the number of factcheckers, editors, and journalists. What this means is that editors a…