No matter – the liberal press had betrayed its readers and the MSM (mainstream media) had got it wrong. And people like us decided they didn’t want to put up with it any more.”Veteran media commentator Raymond Snoddy says: “What we’ve seen this year is that ‘mainstream media’ has changed from a general description into a term of abuse. “We should be careful about exactly who is telling us that mainstream media is less trusted and why that narrative is circulated,” she says. But a mainstream media site would remove every trace of a false story like this. The response of self-defined insurgent media is: why observe the rules of the mainstream media when the mainstream media have failed us?

Source: The Guardian August 06, 2017 07:52 UTC