Thanks for posting this, it confirms indirectly how the "fake news" issue is not limited to social media or bloggers or whatever, but it includes also the professionals.
I am surprised that The Guardian did not do something more incisive than publishing the IMHO "lame" and "partial" retraction.
Jacob's should have whatever the journalist equivalent of being hung, drawn and quartered. Public full apology, him fired, investigation launched into how the fuck it got as far as it did, when a cursory fact check would have immediately destroyed his credibility.
this whole devolution of journalism at least has made me realize that i can't in any way pretend to have an informed opinion about whats going on outside my daily life
it was a comforting illusion while it lasted. what do we have left? a groundless postmodern solipsism?
i used to be quite comfortable thinking that assange and wikileaks had a complicated moral position that could be both praised and damned simultaneously. now, i don't even have that.
I'm not a fan of Greenwald's style, and didn't enjoy his articles praising Jeremy Corbyn but once again he showed the importance of a balanced media. Where do we go for real news?
Unfortunately you can't. However, when was the last time you were genuinely affected by breaking "news" that you read or watched on television? I've learned that if I read 3-day old news, a lot of junk tends to be weeded out. But then again, will so much partisan in news it's all become entertainment and ad revenue more than research and facts.
