Journalists will often mention 'baseless claims,' 'debunked theories,' or note someone 'incorrectly stated' something. Meanwhile, they fail to link to whatever the context is that would allow readers to see why the claim or statement is false.
Beginning in the late 1970s, these phrases appeared fewer than 100 times every month, according to Poynter. But there was a big surge last year, when the word “baseless” appeared
646 times in The Associated Press, 925 times in The New York Times and a whopping 1,004 times in transcripts from CNN."When we examined a sample of those stories, we found that few provided evidence why the claims were false or baseless ... That lack of sourcing is troubling. If reporters are going to make a bold claim that a politician’s claim is baseless, they need to show why with authoritative reporting the same way that fact-checkers do," Poynter says.
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