Too Many Choices! Schieffer Bemoans ‘Overload’ of News, Lack of ‘Vetting’

Scott Whitlock | October 5, 2017
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[See NewsBusters for more.] Long-time CBS journalist Bob Schieffer on Thursday whined about Americans having simply too many choices when it comes to consuming the news. Laughably, he unfavorably contrasted modern forms of news with the serious “vetting” of “mainstream” journalism. Regarding online and social media, the 80-year-old reporter complained on This Morning: “We are overwhelmed by it because we are in the midst of this communications revolution that has totally changed not only how we get our news, but the whole culture.” Ironically, Schieffer provided this as an example: “After the shooting out in Las Vegas, there were stories on the internet that [gunman Stephen Paddock] was a recent convert to Islam.” But it was so-called mainstream outlets that hyped this claim. As Politico noted on Monday, “The Associated Press, Newsweek and the New York Daily News, among others, ran headlines along the lines of, ‘Islamic State claims Las Vegas mass shooting.’”

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