User:Praxidicae/fakenews/rfc

Digital Journal
Digital Journal is a user-submitted online paper with no real editorial control and does not distinguish between it's paid for or pushed press release pieces. DJ also attempts to pass off paid for pieces, contributor pieces as legitimate journalism despite the fact that there is no meaningful fact checking and does not distinguish between their editorial board and contributors, nor have a clear disclaimer about this. example

The Statesman (India)
Similar to DJ, I do not know if this has ever been a reliable source but I can say for certain that in the last few years it has lacked any meaningful editorial oversight. Specifically, they publish content without identifying whether it is paid for, pushed press releases, user submitted, opinions or by their editorial staff. Archived articles are significantly different than the current sources in terms of editorial standards.

The reliability of their print paper is not in question (or at least, I'm not questioning it.)

The Asian Age
This one is by far the most obvious and I think the only reason it's become so wide spread is because we have an article on it and people didn't bother to read past the fact that it's published by the same company that publishes Deccan Chronicle and not by DC itself. AA does not differentiate between press releases, user submitted pieces, op-eds and it's editorial team's publications. In many cases, they don't even identify the author. example There are more than a dozen instances of AA republishing blatantly fabricated content (many of those articles are also deleted) from PR firms on behalf of their clients.

Eastern Eye
This is actually laughably bad. Like the others, don't know if they've ever had a good reputation but the fact that the very first source I brought up is nothing short of a press release, with no author, no distinction of whether it's a PR, paid for piece, or user published is a bad sign. example

Mid Day
Nothing more than a gossip site at this point. It's usually rehashed press releases (that aren't identified) and otherwise low quality puffery pushed by firms with no history of fact checking. example