Trump And His Press Secretary Flagrantly Lied On Their First Full Day In Office. That Matters.
Everyone seems to be calling him out for this BS except for FOX. Surprise.
Getting off on Wrong Foot: Trump Lies about Coverage
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Re: Getting off on Wrong Foot: Trump Lies about Coverage
I appreciate Trump providing an opportunity to discuss 1984 with my teen daughter over dinner and her getting interested in reading it. Thanks, Trump!
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Re: Getting off on Wrong Foot: Trump Lies about Coverage
I watched a bit of Fox today and read a little Fox coverage on line.
On CNN and MSNBC, they were showing wide shots of all of the massive crowds in cities around the United States. On Fox the coverage tended to be more in-studio, and when they covered the marches they rarely showed wide shots showing the size of the demonstrations, but medium ground level shots of their personnel on the street. If you watched Fox most of the day you would not have seen the most incredible day of post-election demonstrations since the Civil War.
The other telling thing about Fox was their web coverage of Sean Spicer's press conference. They dutifully reported everything that Spicer said.
Complaining the the white panels made empty space look more pronounced, Spicer noted "This was the first time in our nation's history that floor coverings have been used to protect the grass on the Mall."
FALSE. The first time was Obama 2013.
Spicer said: We know that 420,000 people used the D.C. Metro public transit yesterday, which actually compares to 317,000 that used it for President Obama's last inaugural.
FALSE. Here are the Official DC Metro Transit Figures
1/20/2017 Trump: 570.5k
1/20/2009 Obama:1.1m.
1/20/2013 Obama: 782k.
Feets don't lie, Sean.
Fox didn't lie. They told what Spicer said. But they never included any fact checking of his facts. They just dutifully reported what he said and left it at that.
I suppose that can be considered 'fair and balanced' journalism in a world where everyone always tells the truth. However, some people have been known to make false statements from time to time, and some news organizations actually fact-check what people say. They even included that information in news articles. Evidently some people like to know when people are telling them things that are not true.
It sounds like Trump and Spicer believe that good journalism is believing whatever they say at face value.
Good job, Fox! Here's a special interview with a high ranking official as a reward! Good boy!
On CNN and MSNBC, they were showing wide shots of all of the massive crowds in cities around the United States. On Fox the coverage tended to be more in-studio, and when they covered the marches they rarely showed wide shots showing the size of the demonstrations, but medium ground level shots of their personnel on the street. If you watched Fox most of the day you would not have seen the most incredible day of post-election demonstrations since the Civil War.
The other telling thing about Fox was their web coverage of Sean Spicer's press conference. They dutifully reported everything that Spicer said.
Complaining the the white panels made empty space look more pronounced, Spicer noted "This was the first time in our nation's history that floor coverings have been used to protect the grass on the Mall."
FALSE. The first time was Obama 2013.
Spicer said: We know that 420,000 people used the D.C. Metro public transit yesterday, which actually compares to 317,000 that used it for President Obama's last inaugural.
FALSE. Here are the Official DC Metro Transit Figures
1/20/2017 Trump: 570.5k
1/20/2009 Obama:1.1m.
1/20/2013 Obama: 782k.
Feets don't lie, Sean.
Fox didn't lie. They told what Spicer said. But they never included any fact checking of his facts. They just dutifully reported what he said and left it at that.
I suppose that can be considered 'fair and balanced' journalism in a world where everyone always tells the truth. However, some people have been known to make false statements from time to time, and some news organizations actually fact-check what people say. They even included that information in news articles. Evidently some people like to know when people are telling them things that are not true.
It sounds like Trump and Spicer believe that good journalism is believing whatever they say at face value.
Good job, Fox! Here's a special interview with a high ranking official as a reward! Good boy!
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Re: Getting off on Wrong Foot: Trump Lies about Coverage
Getting off on the wrong foot? Lol. Reddit has already summarized, and I crap you not, about 20 different things from translators being confused by his broken rambling syntax to his speech being co-authored by a White Nationalist.
Whatever. It's not like anyone's mind is being changed.
Fascism 101 for the people who voted for him (not that it matters because they're down with it):
https://np.reddit.com/r/politics/commen ... ?context=3
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Whatever. It's not like anyone's mind is being changed.
Fascism 101 for the people who voted for him (not that it matters because they're down with it):
https://np.reddit.com/r/politics/commen ... ?context=3
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Every record...falsified, every book rewritten...every statue...has been renamed or torn down, every date...altered...the process is continuing...minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Ideology is always right.
Every record...falsified, every book rewritten...every statue...has been renamed or torn down, every date...altered...the process is continuing...minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Ideology is always right.
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Re: Getting off on Wrong Foot: Trump Lies about Coverage
According to Drumpf's nutcracker it is just "alternative facts".