Documents released last night regarding Russia and Donald Trump prove just how little the media values truth
The "documents" released last evening were alleged that Russian intelligence and president Vladimir Putin has embarrassing and compromising information on the president elect regarding sexual acts that he allegedly paid for within Russia. Specifically the documents imply that the Russian governemnt has proof of Donald Trump paying prostitutes to preform a "golden shower" on the bed of the Ritz Carlton hotel, where he knew president Obama stayed on a recent trip to Russia. The document continues to go on to explain that Russia and top Russian officials have personal ties to Donald Trump, and have been virtually "blackmailing" him with the exposing information regarding his sexual acts within Russia.
There's a catch, NONE of the information is in any way verified!!
That's the problem with American press today..
It doesn't matter if the press is true or not, it just about being first to publish and get the maximum viewers.
Within this document, there is absolutely no hardcore evidence or evidence whatsoever that any information within the document is true and valid information. The document claimed to cite numerous sources within both the Russian and American government. This document is truly just a report composed by a company or organization but it contains ABSOLUTELY NO VERIFIABLE INFORMATION.
This document could just as easily have been created/released by the mainstream media or any Trump opposition..
How are we expected to know what's true or invalid? We cannot trust any information released by any major media outlets unless it has been specifically and undeniably VERIFIABLE. When the press and media outlets act reckless with the truth, we all suffer.
Why would the media expect this to be beneficial information for the American public without any supporting documents?
How many times have the main stream media within the US been caught red-handed as being extremely biased and in some cases just flat out false information? More than I can count. Publishing a report with such serious allegations without any proof is absolutely reckless, and seems to serve no beneficial purpose for anyone besides the media outlets. The media and government doesn't realize just how dangerous it is to report on unverified information, especially when the information turns out to be false.
Whether you are a trump supporter or strong opposed, you must be able to see the danger of publishing unverified and revealing information
The faith in the mainstream media is at an all time low within the United States, and its quite easy to see why the people have lost their faith when the media pulls stunts like this. It's irrelevant how you feel about the information; the danger of the media being able to get away with publishing unverified information and presenting it as if its fact is absolutely undefinable.
Please note, I am not personally a supporter of Donald Trump but this type of behavior by the media is going to have profound consequences that no one yet understands. If things keep going on this track, Steemit becomes more and more relevant due to its uncensored capabilities.
Just wanted to do a quick write up on the document released and my opinions on the implications it contains. If you enjoyed this write up please consider Upvoting, Re-Steeming, or following. Thanks for reading!
Link to published document
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It's very interesting that yellow journalism has made such a resurgence in the last decade. It was extremely prominent in the 1890s in the US and was used for political means as well.
media has always been biased one way or another; one way they used to account for that was to label themselves.."The So-and-so Democrat", etc
things got really bad in the 60s, we just start noticing how bad in the 90s courtesy of the internet, and the media turned the crank up over the obama admin, which in turn made their increasingly dishonest bias even more noticeable to folks who didn't care about it previously
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