Clarence Page writes: 'I just want to take a moment to thank all of you readers for putting up with me all these years, even the haters. I’m not kidding, haters, bless your hearts.'
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Now that I’m in the old timers club, I grumpily find myself expressing the sort of attitudes I used to mock with my fellow young reporters.As an African American from the baby boomer generation, I’ve seen a lot of changes that I was eager to see. As a child in the 1950s and ‘60s, I was intrigued by the newsrooms I saw on shows such as “Adventures of Superman.”
A 2018 study by three MIT scholars confirmed my worst fears: false news spreads more rapidly on Twitter than real news.We should not be too surprised by that. Tabloids such as the National Enquirer always have competed well against the establishment press. They’re more entertaining, after all, even when they are less truthful.
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