On Yahoo News, there's a big story at the moment that an unverified report says that North Korea executed four officials from the foreign ministry after the last talks between Kim Jung Un and President Trump failed. What nonsense. To be clear, if Kim decides to kill some of his people if talks with the USA fail, that's pretty bad (although it really isn't any of our business.) What gets me, however, is that there is no evidence that any of this is true. Even a Fake News outlet like Yahoo News isn't publishing it as a regular report. Instead, Yahoo calls it an unverified report. That's a nice way of saying that it's just a rumor.
If journalists are ever to regain the respect of the American people, they will have to stop publishing rumors as if they are news.
If journalists are ever to regain the respect of the American people, they will have to stop publishing rumors as if they are news.
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