And as it has been pointed out often they take these feeds verbatim and can't even do a simple web search to verify anything before embarrassing themselves with incorrect info.
They're printing horribly slanted takes from political hacks as news.
That's nothing that can be verified with a web search.
These syndicated national news stories aren't going to fail a fact check; the news media knows how to cover their bases there, for deniability. They will, however, fail an honesty check. Totally.
And as it has been pointed out often they take these feeds verbatim and can't even do a simple web search to verify anything before embarrassing themselves with incorrect info.
They're not printing lies as fact.
They're printing horribly slanted takes from political hacks as news.
That's nothing that can be verified with a web search.
These syndicated national news stories aren't going to fail a fact check; the news media knows how to cover their bases there, for deniability. They will, however, fail an honesty check. Totally.