# Journalists' Main Goal for 2017 is to Produce Fake News

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So it seems, at least at some media orgs. 

The problem is that many journalists use their [filter bubble on Media Twitter](https://www.currentaffairs.org/2016/11/why-journalists-love-twitter) to share bogus stories, produced by allegedly acceptable media orgs. The Media Twitter echo chamber is part of the fake news problem because journalists don't hesitate to wonder if the story is true. It's easier to read a headline and share it because the assumption is that it must be true because source. This is lazy and irresponsible behavior for all journalists involved.

The only journalist that I like to read regularly is [Glenn Greenwald](https://theintercept.com/staff/glenn-greenwald/) who writes at [TheIntercept.com](https://theintercept.com). While at The Guardian, Greenwald published the Snowden documents about the NSA's surveillance. 

The Intercept is my favorite website to read for news and stories that are not locally-focused on Toledo. For local news and info, I rely on the [Toledo Blade's](http://toledoblade.com) local news [RSS feed](http://www.toledoblade.com/rss/local). For techy stuff, I peruse [Hacker News. Then I access personal websites of people I enjoy reading, and these publishers cover a wide variety of interests that appeal to me.