Journalism and Media Ethics: UVA, Brian Williams and Bill O'Reily

[Chico23231]

Originally Posted by That Guy

it's not a new problem, and scientific journals have had issues with false results and fake peer reviews for a while too.

No its not a new problem, but I think its a more harmful one and its affects more people than it did before. I think its dangerous because of the online forum (print media have moved to more an online format) and of how adverstising dollars work. So by "clicks" determine advertising dollars, the bigger the story (or the lie), more of the reason to push outlandish stories ie "gang rape by 7 men within the "safe" confines of a top public university in the nation"...there is alot to gain. sadly