Posted on 02/27/2017 4:09:27 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee
The motor of fake news is not inaccuracy. It's malice.
I had an insight into this important truth a couple weeks back when I was at a swank New York club for an evening event. The establishment in question is overwhelmingly conventional, i.e., leftish in that smug "We're-all-beautiful-people-who-are-you?" sort of way that publications like The New Yorker and the New York Times, along with such media outlets as CNN and MSNBC, exude like the cloying aroma of paperwhites.
I ran into an acquaintance, a female journalist I hadn't seen in years. I knew that her politics were echt conventional in the above sense, but I had also found her an amusing and lively person. We were chatting with a couple of other people about this and that when someone she knew from the Times joined in. I then overheard him explain to her that she had to be careful about what she posted on Facebook, Twitter, etc., because anything too explicitly anti-Trump could be used against her when that glorious day came and "they" -- the conventional fraternity of groupthink scribblers -- finally took down that horrible, despicable man.
"We've got dozens of people working on it all the time," he explained, adding that it was only a matter of time before they got the goods on Trump and destroyed him.
There in a nutshell, I thought, is the existential imperative that has been so gloriously productive of fake news and its exacerbated allotrope, first delineated by Donald Trump in his famous media-bashing presser on February 16, "very fake news. . ."
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
The fake news is just that. They take statements out of context, they report only one side without telling the whole story, and they report their own opinions as though it’s everyone’s.
A very good essay. It was worth reading, even though I had to push the button to continue several times.
So are the Satanists, and in many cases, they are one in the same.
Pray for Trump. Pray for our nation. Pray that justice is done.
They hate us. They truly disdain us. Deplorables was not a faux pax. They want us in submission.
Trump is exactly right, the liberal media are the enemy.
Anything President Trump says, they claim is false, while anything Hillary, Obama, Sanders or a left wing liar says is true!
In this case, Sanders and Trump said essentially the same thing - they called President Trump a liar, and said that Sanders was telling the truth.
Other times, when lying or covering up for a blatant lie of Hillary or Obama's, they simply ignore it.
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