{"id":1967,"date":"2017-02-03T08:24:04","date_gmt":"2017-02-03T14:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/markmeckler\/?p=1967"},"modified":"2017-02-03T08:24:04","modified_gmt":"2017-02-03T14:24:04","slug":"enough-media-cant-trusted-continues-fall-fake-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markmeckler\/2017\/02\/enough-media-cant-trusted-continues-fall-fake-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Enough! The media can\u2019t be trusted while it continues to fall for fake news"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\"She's gone because of him.\" <\/p>\n<p>This man says his mom died after being denied US entry over Trump\u2019s travel ban <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tRvJvld5sS\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/tRvJvld5sS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 BuzzFeed News (@BuzzFeedNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BuzzFeedNews\/status\/826645381224075264?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">February 1, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>President Trump issued a Muslim ban, and now people are dying. See what a tyrant this man is? That\u2019s what the press would like us to believe.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, multiple media outlets had to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/news\/2017\/02\/01\/media-falls-for-fake-news-story-blaming-trump-ban-for-iraqi-mothers-death\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">retract a story<\/a> which was never checked but widely accepted as fact because it fit the correct narrative. Here\u2019s basically how it read across most outlets, including a Fox News affiliate in Detroit: An Iraq war vet flew back to the Middle East to bring his ailing mother to the U.S. for medical treatment but was blocked by President Trump\u2019s ban, and while waiting for approval, she died from her illness. The son, Mike Hager, was quoted as saying if the ban weren\u2019t in place, his mother would be alive.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe\u2019s gone because of him,\u201d BuzzFeed quoted.<\/p>\n<p>ThinkProgress joined in, posting sad pictures of the mother\u2019s last moments. So did <em>New York Daily News<\/em> and even noted journalist Ron Fournier, who dramatically tweeted, \u201cThis US citizen served his country and we do this to him?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But the real story came from the family\u2019s Imam at their local mosque who said the man\u2019s mother had died five days before the executive order. And the retractions poured in as these outlets discovered they\u2019d been duped by another hoax and exposed as hack journalists. Do they even search for the truth anymore?<\/p>\n<p>Just look at the roster conservative writer Stephen Miller collected of those with no interest in verification:<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/redsteeze\/status\/826891459492200449<\/p>\n<p>Is this the best they can do? If journalism isn\u2019t dead, it\u2019s certainly in critical condition. How can they label conservative outfits \u201cfake news\u201d and yet fall for fake news? No longer can they be trusted. It\u2019s another reminder that we have a duty to be personally responsible and check into things ourselves before believing everything we read. 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