Fake News and Media Bias by Lucian Vance

Author:Lucian Vance
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Greenhaven Publishing LLC

No Story Too Small

By the early years of the 21st century, it was estimated that about 500,000 active blogs were on the Internet, including many devoted to politics and other issues found in the news. Bloggers soon proved themselves resourceful journalists, finding stories ignored by the mainstream media. For example, mostly through the efforts of bloggers, one of the most powerful political leaders in Washington, D.C., took a tumble.

In 2002, Senator Trent Lott of Mississippi spoke at Senator Strom Thurmond’s 100th birthday party. Thurmond, of South Carolina, planned to retire a few weeks later after serving nearly 50 years in the Senate. Back in the 1940s, before joining the Senate, Thurmond ran for president as the candidate of the States’ Rights Democratic Party, which preached segregation and a continuation of the Jim Crow laws that for decades had denied rights to African Americans. When Lott spoke at Thurmond’s birthday party, Lott was the Senate majority leader and therefore one of the most influential politicians in the nation’s capital. At the party Lott said, “I want to say this about my state. When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. We’re proud of him. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn’t have had all these problems over all these years, either.”30

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