TV feeds off of social media. People get a lot of their news from social media so TV is playing catch up and/or adapting to social media.
You see news stories getting put out without properly being vetted because of how fast social media puts out stories.
Bwahahaha. That's what it is, the gatekeepers at the NY Times, CNN, MSNBC, FOX, are good and honest brokers who we can trust to tell us what is real and what is not!
N-E-V-E-R. A constitutional republic requires that its constituents be involved in the democratic process. It is laughable to have these news organizations give a signal that the news is 'good' and not 'fake'. We the people determine that not them.