Who is to blame for misinformation on social media?
In my article “It is editor’s fault,” written in 2013, I commented on the endless and fruitless (it is still going on) bargaining in Congress about reforming immigration policy. Then, I asked a tricky question: “Who is more to blame — the Senate or the House?” The right answer was: “The WSJ editorial page editors,” along with their colleagues from the other major media outlets.
I listed the WSJ editors because I submitted that article to them. They were intrigued but declined to publish it because, as they wrote, “Your general criticism seems to be with editorials that take a consistent point of view, which I’ll admit is what the WSJ has tried to do going back 124 years.” So, we agreed to disagree. In my view, the editorial formula rooted in the realities of the 19th century is simply obsolete in the 21st century.
All other major media outlets have the same approach; they promote their ideological agenda. As I explained in another article, “None of the American media companies is structured to make money by searching for the truth. None of the mainstream media outlets will talk about it because the concept of truth in the American media is false.
People need the truth to function, not this or that quasi-religious editorial narrative. When the legacy media do not see the money in delivering the truth, all…
