A QUESTION FOR YOU!

This week I have a question. Can anyone explain for me why is there so much ‘fake news’ out there? I just don’t get it! Let me give you a very recent example. 

Thursday this week a video appeared on my Facebook wall. It was a young woman newscaster for a Fox station in Denver, CO. She was showing a video of a heavily snowed road that she claimed was in Tampa, FL. I was surprised. I follow the news pretty well and knew about the snow in the Florida panhandle and westward, but had heard nothing of it falling in Tampa. 

I grew up in the Tampa Bay area and have seen snow fall there once. When I was in my high school gym class one winter day a kid came running in the gym screaming that it was snowing outside! Everyone rushed out the door and sure enough it was snowing. This wasn’t a big deal for me, having lived in Ohio for the first 9 years of my life. But many of the kids were very excited, having never seen snow before. It was a light flurry and didn’t stick, but still was fun to watch it fall. 

Anyway, back to the Fox News lady, the video shows her making this claim and discussing it with a colleague on air. I immediately texted my nephew, Dale, who lives outside of Tampa and asked if there was snow on the ground there. His reply was ‘Fake News, no snow in Tampa’. 

So why? It could have been a mistake on her part and she simply referenced the wrong city. Or, she could have deliberately named the wrong city. One friend suggested that someone could have edited in the wrong city name. Who knows. Whatever. I just am so tired of not being able to trust any news source/information these days. It seems that unless I KNOW myself, of the correct information, I just can’t trust any source anymore. 

It's wearing me out.