Buzzfeed : 58% of CLINTON voters BELIEVED fake news stories

[SpankMe]

4. We're all a bunch of bias-seeking dumbasses - left and right.

"...the fake news phenomenon [...] has had a sweeping effect on global politics, and [...] recently caused a gunman to threaten a DC pizza place."

The guy going to the pizza place was very disturbing.

We need some sort of trusted news source that everyone can go to for "real" news. This fragmentation of information availability caused by the Internet has been a disaster for society and for the intelligence and situational awareness of the average citizen. The Internet hasn't been as "democratizing" as we'd hoped. It has become destructive.

I think that NPR, PBS, NYT and WaPo are safe sources for reasonably accurate news and are places where we can be sure fake news won't be published. But, these entities don't have the resources to do the vast news gathering and reporting that would be required to provide the public a safe haven for accurate news and responsible analysis across the board.

We need a non-profit, "super-BBC" type of entity in the US. We need media entities to come together and voluntarily create and support a neutral news mega-agency that is not a profit-maker and that they just support at a loss, as a public service, and consider it an "expense" like rent or utilities. Sort of like what cable companies have done with C-SPAN. The major media companies should get rid of their own news arms (often redundant) and support a C-SPAN-like news channel (2 or 3 of them) that can be trusted.