{"id":31173,"date":"2020-11-10T14:54:56","date_gmt":"2020-11-10T20:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=31173"},"modified":"2020-11-10T14:54:56","modified_gmt":"2020-11-10T20:54:56","slug":"consider-yourself-warned-gatekeepers-were-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/11\/10\/consider-yourself-warned-gatekeepers-were-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Consider Yourself Warned: Gatekeepers Were Good"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the political column<\/a> of the Atlanta Constitution-Journal<\/strong><\/em> (AJC<\/em><\/strong>):<\/p>\n

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Really Fake News.<\/b>\u00a0If you\u2019re scrolling in your social media news feeds over the next two months, beware of the \u201cGeorgia Star,\u201d a new website to be launched by fervent Trump supporter, John Fredericks.<\/p>\n

Media Matters\u00a0describes it<\/a>\u00a0as the newest in \u201ca\u00a0network of websites<\/a>\u00a0that launder right-wing media content and talking points through pages designed to look like local news sites.\u201d<\/p>\n

We fully expect outlandish claims, false accusations, and dirty tricks between now and January 5th – and they will most likely show up on social media first and foremost. So before you \u201clike,\u201d \u201csubscribe,\u201d or \u201cforward,\u201d a story you just can\u2019t believe, consider the source.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

And, once again, we see how the Internet enables any kook, of any political persuasion, to not only spout off views (like I do), but to also participate in propaganda efforts with a fair chance of actually making them work.<\/p>\n

Which means, mislead readers.<\/p>\n

Back in the bad old days of no Internet, readers had a couple of local choices and two or three national choices, and that was about it. If a paper was taken over by a deliberately misleading corporation, then it was a problem – but quite often such propaganda outlets were quickly identified and abandoned by readers, leading to substantial financial losses.<\/p>\n

Nowadays? A web site is abandoned, so what? They’re freaking cheap. (Why do you think I keep doing this? ‘cuz I’ve got a big mouth, lots of opinions, and it doesn’t cost much.) You run off and start another, sell a little advertising space, and off you go again.<\/p>\n

Be warned, not all news sites are trustworthy. Wise readers already know not to read RT, Breitbart<\/strong><\/em>, and many others, except for amusement. The Georgia Star<\/em><\/strong> and its ilk – what I’m tempted to call the Barstool Blowhard<\/em> “news” sites – will be another to avoid.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the political column of the Atlanta Constitution-Journal (AJC): Really Fake News.\u00a0If you\u2019re scrolling in your social media news feeds over the next two months, beware of the \u201cGeorgia Star,\u201d a new website to be launched by fervent Trump supporter, John Fredericks. Media Matters\u00a0describes it\u00a0as the newest in \u201ca\u00a0network of \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31173"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31174,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31173\/revisions\/31174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}