The Trump Presidency
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57Brave
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cajunrevenge
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Where did you get that from 57.
acesfull86
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57Brave
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57Brave
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" Truth be told, you want your news media to be "hard to figure" and not blatantly partisan (like the NYT). "
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The failing @nytimes writes total fiction concerning me. They have gotten it wrong for two years, and now are making up stories & sources!
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Is it me or is there a pattern developing.
Hmmm
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The failing @nytimes writes total fiction concerning me. They have gotten it wrong for two years, and now are making up stories & sources!
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Is it me or is there a pattern developing.
Hmmm
I subscribe to the NYT (the writing, if not the reporting, is top notch) and have defended them at various times in the past. Print media needs all the love it can get.
But it's okay to call a spade a spade - and to skeptically assume that not everything in print is true.
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... We now return you to your regularly scheduled "but... but... this is an assault on the freedom of the press !??!" hysteria ...
But it's okay to call a spade a spade - and to skeptically assume that not everything in print is true.
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... We now return you to your regularly scheduled "but... but... this is an assault on the freedom of the press !??!" hysteria ...
57Brave
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President Trump is now speculating that the media is covering up terrorist attacks
By Philip Bump February 6 at 2:55 PM
Speaking to the United States’ Central Command on Monday, President Trump went off his prepared remarks to make a truly stunning claim: The media was intentionally covering up reports of terrorist attacks.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...ks/?tid=sm_tw&utm_term=.22ade9b9540b#comments
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It was brand-new information to people because there was no “Bowling Green massacre.” Conway had referred to the supposed terrorist attack previously, including in response to a question posed by TMZ. But the two Iraqis arrested in Bowling Green, Ky. in 2011 never committed an attack in the United States. She later admitted that she’d misspoken.
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She didn't misspeak - she is caught on tape 2 other times saying the same.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slat...ng_green_massacre_before_msnbc_interview.html
By Philip Bump February 6 at 2:55 PM
Speaking to the United States’ Central Command on Monday, President Trump went off his prepared remarks to make a truly stunning claim: The media was intentionally covering up reports of terrorist attacks.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...ks/?tid=sm_tw&utm_term=.22ade9b9540b#comments
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It was brand-new information to people because there was no “Bowling Green massacre.” Conway had referred to the supposed terrorist attack previously, including in response to a question posed by TMZ. But the two Iraqis arrested in Bowling Green, Ky. in 2011 never committed an attack in the United States. She later admitted that she’d misspoken.
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She didn't misspeak - she is caught on tape 2 other times saying the same.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slat...ng_green_massacre_before_msnbc_interview.html
57Brave
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from Daily Kos:
Donald Trump gave the nation yet more reasons to be frightened of his leadership in a speech to the military on Monday afternoon. Speaking at Central Command headquarters in Florida, Trump obsessively talked about all the “beautiful new equipment” he’d be providing the military and suggested he would continue to favor lawmakers who endorsed him over ones who didn’t. But when he got to the subject of terrorism, Trump was downright detached from reality.
”Radical Islamic terrorists are determined to strike our homeland as they did on 9/11, as they did from Boston to Orlando to San Bernardino, and all across Europe,” he said—ignoring the fact that none of those attacks were carried out by people from the countries named in his travel ban. “All over Europe it’s happening.”
It's gotten to a point where it's not even being reported. And in many cases the very, very dishonest press doesn't want to report it. They have their reasons and you understand that.
Yes, that’s right. The press is covering up major terror attacks, and somehow succeeding at that in the age of social media.
But the really scary part of that statement is that “they have their reasons and you understand that.” Trump is basically painting the media as an enemy of the United States and a friend to terrorists here, and he’s trying to enlist members of the military—to whom he has just promised “beautiful new equipment”—as his confidants, the people who, like him, understand that the media is the enemy.
America’s laws might be strong enough to keep Donald Trump from becoming a true authoritarian dictator. But the more he talks, the more clear it is that that’s what he wants to be. And he’s angry at the laws and the courts that stand in his way and the media that reports on his lies
Donald Trump gave the nation yet more reasons to be frightened of his leadership in a speech to the military on Monday afternoon. Speaking at Central Command headquarters in Florida, Trump obsessively talked about all the “beautiful new equipment” he’d be providing the military and suggested he would continue to favor lawmakers who endorsed him over ones who didn’t. But when he got to the subject of terrorism, Trump was downright detached from reality.
”Radical Islamic terrorists are determined to strike our homeland as they did on 9/11, as they did from Boston to Orlando to San Bernardino, and all across Europe,” he said—ignoring the fact that none of those attacks were carried out by people from the countries named in his travel ban. “All over Europe it’s happening.”
It's gotten to a point where it's not even being reported. And in many cases the very, very dishonest press doesn't want to report it. They have their reasons and you understand that.
Yes, that’s right. The press is covering up major terror attacks, and somehow succeeding at that in the age of social media.
But the really scary part of that statement is that “they have their reasons and you understand that.” Trump is basically painting the media as an enemy of the United States and a friend to terrorists here, and he’s trying to enlist members of the military—to whom he has just promised “beautiful new equipment”—as his confidants, the people who, like him, understand that the media is the enemy.
America’s laws might be strong enough to keep Donald Trump from becoming a true authoritarian dictator. But the more he talks, the more clear it is that that’s what he wants to be. And he’s angry at the laws and the courts that stand in his way and the media that reports on his lies
Julio3000
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Errrr, at a certain point, though, don't you have to say NYT, WP, Foreign Policy, et al vs. Breitbart and RT? Feel free to call a spade a spade, but when you have to take a stand on credibility, where do you fall?
Not necessarily.
Always consider the source, read from multiple sources, question the angle. That's how you establish credibility. You don't assign it arbitrarily based on whether or not a publication tells you what you want to hear.
NYT leans left (and is owned by Carlos Slim, who despises Trump), WSJ leans right. RT is government funded (but so is the BBC). Breitbart is a news-aggregator/blog that just happens to have White House ties. All of these things should factor into any critical reading of the press. Now, obviously, for many, they don't.
(BTW - WaPo is not really a paper since Bezos castrated it, and FP is owned by Slate Media [FA is much better]).