They wrote an article, “Journalists have an even heavier task ahead” which chronicles their opinions on why the problem of fake news is not necessarily pertinent to a lack of understanding but instead because the liberal bias is perpetuated through most news outlets. As Will Jarvis explains during the article, “It’s less about word counts and more about how we tell these stories, how we share this information.”. Here the authors most likely meant to show that the way we fight fake news has to start at how the news is reported in the newsroom. A similar sentiment is shared by Ben Smith in his article, “How tech and media can fight fake news”. Here Smith explains that conservative viewers will most likely consume news that fits their bias, “There are deep conspiracy theorists who believe in false flags… And there are, perhaps most hallucinatory, Macedonian teenagers for whom feeding Trump supporters what they want to hear on sites like WorldPoliticus.com and TrumpVision365.com was a good way to make a few bucks.”. Smith means to convey that conservative viewers wont listen to news they perceive to be biased in the camp against them. Furthermore, Smith probably hoped to explain that fake news feeds into the conservative bias and thus reinforces their …show more content…
Pablo Boczkowski, in his article “Fake news and the future of journalism” explains this dilemma, “there is a crisis in the cultural authority of knowledge that affects not only journalism but other key institutions of modern life, including science, medicine, and education.”. Boczkowski may have been trying to infer the possibility fake news have longer tendrils than previously thought. In this way, Boczkowski explains that the societal issue of fake news goes far beyond contemporary journalism and instead is an issue with societies pusillanimity. A similar voice expressing the possible culprit may be society itself is David Uberti in his article, “The real history of fake news”. As Uberti exclaims, “A thumbnail history shows marked similarities to today’s fakery in editorial motive or public gullibility… It also suggests that the recent fixation on fake news has more to do with macro-level trends than any new brand of faux content.”. Here Uberti also conveys that the problem of fake news is more indicative of the public than it is to the journalism