Vox.com, a left-wing news hub run by liberal journalist Ezra Klein, ran a story Tuesday morning with the headline, “The North Korean economy is actually doing pretty well”. However, that headline does not fit at all with the actual content of their story.
If you get to the fourth paragraph of the piece, you find this nugget:
None of this is to say that the quality of life in North Korea for many is anything other than nightmarish. Food shortages are rampant, and the economy is far from self-sufficient: About 70 percent of the population relies on food aid, and 40 percent of the country is malnourished, according to the United Nations.
Who knew that an economy doing pretty well meant that 40 percent of your population was malnourished and that the quality of life for a North Korean citizen was “nightmarish”?
To make matters worse, Vox tried to deceive the public and their readers by changing their headline without letting them know.
@voxdotcom Now Vox is trying to shield itself from criticism by changing its headline. pic.twitter.com/fibE06iMte
— Ashley Rae (@Communism_Kills) May 2, 2017
This is a typical tactic from the mainstream media. And Vox is not the only media outlet that does this. In fact, the entire election hack story started the same way. Gabriel Sherman of New York magazine claimed “that results in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania may have been manipulated or hacked.” The story went viral. It was shared 145,000 times on Facebook. It then hit Twitter and was shared among a number of left-wing reporters, including Politico’s Eric Geller, Reuters’ Dustin Volz, MSNBC’s Joy Reid and even New York Times columnist Paul Krugman.
However, Nate Silver threw water on their viral fire by demanding proof. “Anyone making allegations of a possible massive electoral hack should provide proof,” Silver said. “And we can’t find any.”
However, the damage was already done. Daniel Payne explains the tactic: “This is how fake news works: the fake story always goes viral, while nobody reads or even hears about the correction.”
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Sources: The Federalist
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