Lying and deliberately misleading aren’t quite the same thing, although they have the same effect; I would expect the press to do the latter but not the former. So when you implied that the mass media reports did lie, I was confused and decided to dig further.
One practical difference is that, if lying is considered bad but things-close-to-lying aren’t, it requires a tertiary source to completely replace the truth by a lie.
They’re the same thing consequentially, but different under deontological and virtue ethics, so there’s a signalling convention that one is better than the other.
Lying and deliberately misleading aren’t quite the same thing, although they have the same effect; I would expect the press to do the latter but not the former. So when you implied that the mass media reports did lie, I was confused and decided to dig further.
One practical difference is that, if lying is considered bad but things-close-to-lying aren’t, it requires a tertiary source to completely replace the truth by a lie.
They’re the same thing consequentially, but different under deontological and virtue ethics, so there’s a signalling convention that one is better than the other.