I am old enough to remember fondly when broadcast journalism required objectivity, and your reputation and livelihood depended on that. It's not really news anymore. It's all tabloid op-ed.

The drive-by media has its own agendas to push on us.

Having an alternative truth has been an essential for the new world order.

The most accurate news is the weather report - and we all know how often they're right!

You now have to select very carefuly the news networks, magazines, newspapers and reporters analysis and reports and still need to double-check everything. It's a pretty sad state of affairs.  There are some very specific networks I don't even watch anymore, I've been so disappointed by their lies, spinning of information, lack of professionalism, lack of quality research, and their manipulation and contortion of the news, facts and reality. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSKGa_7XJkg

Video from Ted about how fake news work...

I get the news I need on the weather report - Paul Simon.

I pay no attention to fake news and I do NOT watch any news channel that promotes it.

Consequently I only watch FoxNews these days - the rest is garbage as far as I'm concerned!

I think that might be taking the political issue much too far.

Don't have one.

I don't watch any news, so I can't be faked out.

It is all dependent on location. In the Hot Markets contest there were many that said their market were still slow and depressed. As for fake news I take all news with a grain of salt. It is hard to trust anything you hear.

I take the position that anything I hear on the news or in the news is all fake. I do my own homework and am not guided by or make decisions based upon the news. 

With the internet, the world is full of fake news. And your headline just makes me laugh, Annette Lawrence , Palm Harbor, FL 727-420-4041 !

Annette,

Not long ago, I wrote a post about a Wall Street Journal article updating the bad drought we were experiencing in Santa Barbara.  This journalist had last year's pictures.  The day he wrote it, the local news announced that were at 150% of rainfall.  

The media always has an agenda, first and foremost to sell something...$$$ matter to them more than good research and the truth.  A

When the IRA were bombing in Northern Ireland, the news in the US and Canada would show pictures of the wrong bomb site, in the wrong town, wrong area.  It was like someone said "get me some file film on bombs in Northern Ireland" and they would pull up whatever was handy.  I then wondered if it was the same in Beirut, etc ???  It's been going on forever!

I mostly ignore news.  I don't watch any of it.  Check google news here and there to make sure I am not missing anything major. -Kasey

It's never going to go away or be eliminated.

I agree with Nina Hollander!

If I were a fiction writer, I'd be having a field day. 

The biggest fake news in real estate is all the fake buyer agents that claim to represent a home buyer and then sit on the sidelines and do nothing for the home buyer because they worry too much about covering their assets.

Eve

I've stopped watching the news, reading news sites, etc. because of it.

Send to Phillipines the president will order a fire s!@#$....

With the coined term, "Fake News" it now makes many question all news, so if that was the goal, it is achieved, as those that question take everything that they read, see, or hear, with a small percentage of truth, as opposed to believing an entire story, i.e., "Real News".  I certainly question more, believe less, and know as a given, that the initial story will change, sometimes very quickly, other times, over time.  We are not told the entire story, let alone the complete true story.  Annette Lawrence , Palm Harbor, FL 727-420-4041, here, regarding real estate, home prices are recovering slowly, and so is the price/square foot, so that is a positive trend.  It is moving along quicker in some larger cities, and slower in some smaller cities.  Inventory is still low, as it was last year. 

I don't even watch the news anymore.  It just makes me mad.  I do stay informed as best.  It's not that difficult to tell an opinion from real news.  

Pretty much they use news for attacking or herding public opinion.  I listen to CBN they are pretty fair in their reporting.

Annette Lawrence , Palm Harbor, FL 727-420-4041 What happened to the days when the news was unbiased and objective, and reported the facts? And they wonder why nobody pays any attention to them anymore.

There is no shortage of false real estate information.

I was just looking at 2 different reports saying the exact opposite of each other. One from NAR & the other from IL.  

Well, I know that I am tired of seeing someone say one thing & have the newscaster turn around & say something completely different or infuse something when reporting.

There was a snippet in the local paper that two of the five worse jobs now are newspaper and television reporters!

Which is worse - Fake News or Highly FILTERED News ???

Fake news is just unacceptable as self-serving propoganda.

Candice A. Donofrio nailed this one!

I find the term "fake news" is often used to describe news one doesn't agree with or news that doesn't perpetuate one's paradigm. I avoid other's opinions and focus on facts.

News used to be the who, what, why and where and on the local level was spelled out or if statewide, at the national generalities location. Now too much of the sum it up nationally and we all know every market is different and influx. That's why appraisals are not good for more than six to twelve months. News reporters who don't research like blog post writers who type fluff or display old news or opinion as industry gospel create inaccurate information that misleads... which is a form of fake news. Half sound bites and agendas, anger and wanting to make a big headline in news reporting does not feed the masses healthy, truthful information. I was a broadcast news director in an earlier life and did more than rip and read off the AP or UPI teletype.

Annette Lawrence , Palm Harbor, FL 727-420-4041 - I guess it is up to us to 'accept' or 'reject' it!

Depends on the local market.  But I have no use or trust in Trulia/Zillow.  Market manipulation via fake news.

  I have boycotted trash news sites like NPR, CBS, Washington Post, NYT, ESPN, USA Today, etc. for years.

The answer "lies" (pun) in the oath taken in court. Do you promise to tell the truth doesn't cut it. They added...the whole truth and nothing but the truth 

There are enough opinions floating around out there. It would be refreshing to see only the on the scene "reporters" capture just the facts without conjecture again. I'll try hard to reach my own conclusions.  I promise!

No truth in Washington reported by people with their own perspective. No chance for truth!

I'm so sick of that bulls_ _ t term...

Well I think its another catch phrase that is overused when someone doesn't want to answer questions mostly.

I see this every week

I believe that when we allow newscasters to inject opinion without identifying it as such; we have given license for fake news.

A litmus test for me is: if "traditional" media was providing consistently Truthful, Complete, Relevant, Facts and Stories; combined with Balanced Point and Counter-Point Opinions - the upstarts like Breitbart, InfoWars, ZeroHedge, Drudge would have little to add to our knowledge of current events.  There is indeed an info war going on...