Sad how the “Paper of Record” has become the “Paper to Line Your Bird-Cage.”
Via BizPac Review.
In what can only be described as the perfect case of irony, The New York Times aired a fake news ad in a story decrying fake news and the death of facts.
The piece is an editorial called “Truth and Lies in the Age of Trump” published Saturday. NYTimes’ editorial board discussed the decay of facts in a Walter Cronkite-less era dominated by truth-spinners like President-elect Donald Trump.
Smack dab in the middle of this piece lamenting the end of reliable news was a fake news story claiming Alec Baldwin was dead at 58. Gizmodo Media Group executive editor John Cook took a screenshot of the ad and posted it to Twitter Dec. 10.
This isn’t the first time the Times has had this problem. It occurred enough to warrant a Nov. 23 piece by public editor Liz Spayd titled, “Condemning ‘Fake News,’ but Running Fake-News Ads.”….
ad for fake news in nyt editorial on the death of facts pic.twitter.com/SzPw3s83UV
— John Cook (@johnjcook) December 10, 2016
Tammy Bruce: Washington Times — Legacy media fakery: Collusion between the press and their political favorites breeds fraud
I’m no analytics expert, but I suppose if you are reading the New York Times, it means you are interested in other fake news as well.