In a recent weekend show of 60 Minutes, Scott Pelly featured a piece Examining Fake News stories and became befuddled by expert opinions on the matter. NewsBusters describes the findings from watching the show.
From his opening monolouge:
SCOTT PELLEY: In this last election, the nation was assaulted by imposters masquerading as reporters. They poisoned the conversation with lies on the left and on the right. Many did it to influence the outcome; others just to make a buck. The President uses the term “fake news” to discredit responsible reporting that he doesn’t like, but we’re going to show you how con artists insert truly fake news into the national conversation with fraudulent software that scams your social media account. The stories are fake, but the consequences are real.
I find it extreamly ironic that this fool, Pelly, thinks that his profession, News Reporters, are some how excluded from this claim. But provides some indication that it’s the fault of other forces: “the nation was assaulted by imposters masquerading as reporters”.
Going first to who falls for fake news, Pelley’s examples were heavily skewed to so-called right-of-center falsehoods like Pizzagate or Hillary Clinton having Parkinson’s Disease.
Pelley repeatedly told viewers that fake news was an issue on both sides, but never provided any proof until the nine-minute-mark of the 13-minute exposé with two ludicrous headlines about President Trump using drugs and having cancer.
It was soon after this that guest and “internet advertising firm” CEO Jeff Green dropped this admission that both he and Pelley seemed befuddled by:
JEFF GREEN: So the first thing that we found out is that it is definitely a phenomenon that affects both sides.
PELLEY: Liberals and conservatives?
GREEN: Yes. There is no question they’re both affected.
Green revealed that “fake news readers on the left were more likely to be affluent and college educated.”
And on the right, “right-leaning fake news overwhelmingly attracted readers in their 40s and 50s.”
The right leaning admission I dont ascribe to, I would think its an older crowd, just because the technology is flying so fast, that they lost in the seemingly new world of the “internet”. However, the younger group on the left are extreamly ignorant.
The glaring omission appeared a few minutes earlier while Pelley spoke to Jestin Coler, who “made real money on fake news” but overseeing two of them that fooled people (National Report and the Denver Guardian).
Touting the fact that “he pushed people’s buttons on issues such as abortion and ObamaCare” and reading headlines from some other Coler stories, Pelley shamefully left out the fact that Coler was not a Republican but a registered Democrat.
Hmm, so watchers are then presuming that this guy is a Right Winger aggitator then???
Really, the people most affected by fake news reports are the people that watch CNN, NBC, MSNBC, CBS and ABC.
Comments from others – Newshound24:
How can they be ‘shocked’ at this? Liberal education isn’t education at all – in fact it’s the opposite of education. Most liberal schools will throw their students out on the streets with a diploma which they can’t even read – as long as they say they believe in global warming and multiculturalism.
Just say you hate Republicans, and liberals will stack useless diplomas on you to make you feel like a ‘good person’. But they won’t teach you English, Math, Science, or anything that will actually prepare you for work, careers, real life, or being a productive member of society. Liberals do not educate. They indoctrinate.
And hence, we get 60 minutes, stunned that their liberal snowflakes will believe ANYTHING, however wrong it may be, as long as you preface it with ‘democrat’.