Anyone can claim to be a journalist or a news organization, and publish lies with almost total impun

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

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Headlines in early March 2023 implied Fox News mogul Rupert Murdoch had made a damning confession. He had affirmed that some of his most important journalists were reporting that the 2020 presidential election was a fraud – even though they knew they were propagating a lie.

It was an admission during pretrial testimony in a libel lawsuit filed against Fox by a voting machine company that says it was defamed by the lie. For journalism practitioners and devotees, the admission should signal the end of the Fox News empire.

Nope. It didn’t.

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That’s because a business that calls itself a news organization actually does not have to be one - but it does have to be a business. Businesses exist primarily to make a profit and doing actual news isn’t essential. Adam Serwer, reporting for The Atlantic, wrote “sources at Fox told me to think of it not as a network per se, but as a profit machine.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/anyone-claim-journalist-news-organization-120529144.html

[Karadeniz]

1. Here we go... now we need a legal definition of news/journalism...