Nolte: Poynter Temporarily Pulls Blacklist with a Lie and Promise to Return: Poynter’s announcement about pulling its blacklist of 515 news outlets is not only framed around a lie, but a promise the blacklist will return.
The lie is so audacious and flies so hard in the face of what we all know to be true, if Poynter were anything close to a credible institution it would list itself as fake news.
Twice in this three-paragraph statement, Poynter’s managing editor Barbara Allen tells this lie.
Here’s big, fat lie number one: “Our aim was to provide a useful tool for readers to gauge the legitimacy of the information they were consuming.”
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