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The press' credibility problem took a turn for the worse this year.
Instead of adjusting adeptly to Trump's easy relationship with the truth and his tendency to abuse members of the news media, a significant number of political journalists and commentators tripped over themselves to repeat every bit of gossip, thinly sourced claim and half-cocked rumor.
These stories fell short of the most basic function of political journalism in that they failed to provide readers with a clear and indisputably accurate picture of what is really going on at the White House and Congress. These botched reports also further diminished the public's already dwindling trust in the press.
It has become de rigueur for Trumpist on CD Forum to post threads with clearly false and misleading titles. The link says nothing about "fake news" but mistakes that were made by the media including FoX News and the Wall Street Journal. There is a difference between mistakes and fake news. Fake news is what zero hedge and Breitbart do. Issuing corrections or retractions to mistakes is what legitimate media does.
The Examiner piece is critical of anything anti-Trump which speaks for itself; though the author, Becket Adams, admits Trump himself has issues telling the truth. I think the author is saying the media should not be so quick to call out Trump because we all know that he is a liar, or some other such ludicrous supposition.
Many of the stories cited were corrected by the media. Of course, though, the article does not include right-wing lying trash sites. Nor does it include the Washington Examiner itself which has been accused of publishing misleading articles. Ironically, some articles Adams cite as mistakes are not mistakes at all. Almost all are cherry picked. Some ridiculous, Twitter really? Many are opinion pieces and some are just plain nonsense.
Media is not perfect. Unlike the dishonest president or the lying right-Wing trash sites so many CDers rely on, the media issue corrections.
It is ironic that the OP engages in the same vile conduct that she accuses the media of doing. Will she issue a correction?
Last edited by TreeBeard; 07-08-2018 at 12:07 PM..
The press' credibility problem took a turn for the worse this year.
Instead of adjusting adeptly to Trump's easy relationship with the truth and his tendency to abuse members of the news media, a significant number of political journalists and commentators tripped over themselves to repeat every bit of gossip, thinly sourced claim and half-cocked rumor.
These stories fell short of the most basic function of political journalism in that they failed to provide readers with a clear and indisputably accurate picture of what is really going on at the White House and Congress. These botched reports also further diminished the public's already dwindling trust in the press.
I'm sorry, I just had to laugh that you used the words "Trump" and "truth" in the same sentence, lol.
The press' credibility problem took a turn for the worse this year.
Instead of adjusting adeptly to Trump's easy relationship with the truth and his tendency to abuse members of the news media, a significant number of political journalists and commentators tripped over themselves to repeat every bit of gossip, thinly sourced claim and half-cocked rumor.
These stories fell short of the most basic function of political journalism in that they failed to provide readers with a clear and indisputably accurate picture of what is really going on at the White House and Congress. These botched reports also further diminished the public's already dwindling trust in the press.
So, in TrumpLandia, the POTUS should feel free to lie like a cheap rug and it's the duty of the press to ferret out his lies and then listen to Lil' Donny accuse them of Fake News! ?
Doesn't sound like much of a plan to create confidence in the POTUS in the American people. Sounds more like a plan to give a con-man Carte Blanche.
Just listened to Kasparov explain that the approach Putin has been using for years in Russia and which is being used in the U.S. now is get out conflicting stories to the point that people don't trust any news.
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Fox News is becoming too mainstream...
