Media’s Next Challenge: Overcoming the Threat of Fake News; New York Times, 11/6/16

Jim Rutenberg, New York Times; Media’s Next Challenge: Overcoming the Threat of Fake News:

"It could be Pollyannaish to think so, but maybe this year’s explosion in fake news will serve to raise the value of real news. If so, it will be great journalism that saves journalism.

“People will ultimately gravitate toward sources of information that are truly reliable, and have an allegiance to telling the truth,” Mr. Baron said. “People will pay for that because they’ll realize they’ll need to have that in our society.”

As The Times’s national political correspondent Jonathan Martin wrote on Twitter last week, “Folks, subscribe to a paper. Democracy demands it.”

Or don’t. You’ll get what you pay for."