humble3d Posted April 1, 2017 Share Posted April 1, 2017 Newspapers cancel April Fool's over 'fake news' fears... Swedish and Norwegian newspapers ditch April Fools' due to fake news Swedish and Norwegian newspapers announced on Friday that they would refrain from the tradition of publishing April Fools' Day jokes this year over fears that it might spread "fake news". Magnus Karlsson, editor-in-chief at Swedish daily Smålandsposten said on its website that he doesn't want the newspaper's brand "to be spread with a potentially viral and erroneous story". "We work with real news. Even on April 1st," he said. The "fake news" phenomenon broke out amid the 2016 US presidential election and grew even further when Donald Trump, during his first press conference on January 11th as then president-elect, shouted at a CNN reporter: "You are fake news!" Sweden was a victim of "fake news" when Fox News in February interviewed a "security and defence expert" who turned out to have criminal convictions in the US and no connections to the Scandinavian nation's security services, Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter reported. Now, several local daily Swedish newspapers including Dalarnas Tidningar, Hallpressen and Västerbottens-Kuriren have refrained from publishing April Fools' Day jokes. "Historically, we've had super successful April Fools jokes. But because of debates and discussions about the media's credibility being connected to fake news, we didn't want to do it this year," Ingvar Näslund, editor-in-chief at Västerbottens-Kuriren told Swedish news agency TT. Erik Berger, editor-in-chief at the daily Jonköpings-Posten told AFP that his newspaper would "write in (Saturday's) edition" about why they won't publish such jokes. In neighbouring Norway, the largest media organizations such as public broadcaster NRK, and newspapers Aftenposten, VG and Dagbladet have also abandoned this old tradition. NRK said local newspapers would follow suit. Øyulf Hjertenes, editor at the local daily Bergens Tidende, told NRK that in a climate where "false news is spreading, it would be a mistake on our part" to publish jokes on April 1. Kristin Monstad, publishing editor at Drammens Tidende, added: "What is written in Drammens Tidende must be true." https://www.thelocal.se/20170331/swedish-and-norwegian-newspapers-ditch-april-fools-due-to-fake-news Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agent 86 Posted April 1, 2017 Share Posted April 1, 2017 7 minutes ago, humble3d said: "We work with real news. Even on April 1st," he said. now thats funny! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted April 1, 2017 Share Posted April 1, 2017 What good does it do too cancel the news? when there is overblown fake news 365 days a year , It's April Fools day every day anymore. That just means they will have to go elsewhere to get there fake news . People always loved the fake news before the internet people use to buy the fake news even .For all I know this could be fake news about fake news . It does exist you know . A lot stuff got proved to be true and when they wrote it, the mainstream media called them paranoid crackpots The Internet Made ‘Fake News’ a Thing—Then Made It Nothing https://www.wired.com/2017/02/internet-made-fake-news-thing-made-nothing/ NYT’s Fake News about Fake News https://consortiumnews.com/2017/02/22/nyts-fake-news-about-fake-news/ Fox News Firing ‘Most Controversial Anchor’ Shep Smith Is Fake News http://www.business2community.com/us-news/fox-news-firing-controversial-anchor-shep-smith-fake-news-01796278 My favorite news is the naked news and my parents always told me Id go blind if watched that kind of stuff and that was a lie too because I can still see!. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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