What is the threshold for "convincing" though? If I write an article about you alleging or directly concluding something unpleasant, ask you for comment, include your denials, but publish anyway slanting the entire article to my narrative, and you publish your own take on the matter, are you automatically not convincing? "But the people have a right to know, that rumanator did XYZ!!".
This is the entire problem -- there is nothing that will apparently get a media org to retract or back down, because for them, publishing something, anything means revenue and not publishing means going out of business, facts be damned.
Media: "Hey, we're writing an article about this concerning you -- any comment?"
Subject: "It's completely untrue."
Media: "Ooh, you must be hiding something, we're publishing anyway."
Subject: <Publishes online rebuttal>
Online commentariat: "He's not convincing!! The media is under attack and our democracy is dying in the darkness!"
This is the entire problem -- there is nothing that will apparently get a media org to retract or back down, because for them, publishing something, anything means revenue and not publishing means going out of business, facts be damned.
Media: "Hey, we're writing an article about this concerning you -- any comment?"
Subject: "It's completely untrue."
Media: "Ooh, you must be hiding something, we're publishing anyway."
Subject: <Publishes online rebuttal>
Online commentariat: "He's not convincing!! The media is under attack and our democracy is dying in the darkness!"