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Meta-news media. I think we have reached a point where MSM and FOX are so bad that we need news media thats only job is to fact check everything reported in news media. MSM has become freakishly reactionary and is jumping the gun too often to be taken seriously. FOX is now blatant propaganda state media for the Trump Administration. Partisans are more interested in playing whataboutism on the other side than evaluating the bias in the media they are consuming. Nobody has time to critically evaluate everything they see and hear in the media but people still make snap judgements or are swept up in the moment. None of the news organizations dedicate much time to coverage for mistakes they reported to correct the misconceptions they sowed. We need a 24/7 factchecker that is purely about keeping the commentators accountable for what they say. Fewer people would probably take commentators seriously if they knew how often they were full of crap and just saying the types of things people want to hear. A better informed public would also be less politically polarized because they would not be as subject to being in a partisan bubble.