I often pick on the news media for what Trump calls Fake News. The media itself has been consistently wrong about what Trump considers to be Fake News. To Trump there are two kinds of Fake News. Tha main one we here about is news that is reported in a manner that doesn't jive with Trump's version of the truth. Secondly, however, is perhaps where the notion of Fake News. comes from. This is news that is incorrectly or inaccurately reported by reporters (or worse.. talking heads) who do not have a firm grasp of the subject, who have a bias (or their CEO has a bias), or who report on interviews from people who lie to them. This not Fake News it is Lazy News, and it has become rampant.

This week reporting on inflation (which is at a high level) ABC news reported that consumer prices (eg. the Consumer Price Index) rose 8.4% in March 2022. No... that was incorrect. The reporter failed to grasp the subject and there was no one editing the broadcast. What the reporter implied was that prices were 8.5% higher in March than they were in February (2022). In truth the level of the Consumer Price Index reported for March was 8.4% higher than the level of the index in March 2021. The change was 8.4% for the year. This of course is high, but is not at the panic level. Prices in March were about .0075 higher than they were in February (8.4 percent annual which in real numbers is .084 divided by 12 months). Prices were higher by pennies... not dollars... Lazy News

Lazy News is also when the same stories or the same photos are published or shown day after day. The network television news does this as does the app. version of the Washington Post. News means important stuff that happened today. News isn't what Will Smith did two days ago. News isn't repetitive photos of bodies (however horific they really are) laying in the streets of Ukraine. The same photos day after day. That is sensationalism - Lazy News.

Lazy News is the reporting of "local news" (eg local for New York or Washington D.C.) as if it were of national significance. This week the bombing of a Brooklyn subway car was a huge presence. No one was killed. It is easy to cover for New York based reporters and editors. It was an important story of national significance for about 2 hours. Two weeks ago gunmen in Sacramento killed six people and its coverage was almost an afterthough on the Lazy News because it is much more difficult for New York reporters to cover.

I am just waiting to see David Muir being honest and announcing the ABC Lazy News Tonight .