Last night's tweet was bad enough, but the much greater problem is that this is proof, that even a month after the election, the MSM are ready to pounce on anything, real or imagined, to degrade Mr. Trump and his supporters.
Reporters, like all of us, make mistakes. But MSM reporters like Eichenwald can't wait to demean Trump, so when something that has a microscopic possibility of being true, but it is negative re: Mr. Trump, either their delusional imaginations or their politics tell them to report it as fact.
Delusional imagination.... or negative political motive; I don't know which is worse.
There are psychoactive medications for neurotic delusional thought processes. But nothing can cure the psychosis called liberalism affecting American journalists.
It’s gone beyond fake news, it’s down right out and out lying.
Until people like this start losing their jobs no one will trust the media.
And of course they full well know the damage is done when they put out fake news. No one listens to the retraction.
Modern “journalists” are advocates, nor reporters, and they use the social and electronic media the same way monkeys in the zoo use poop. Just throw it out there, chances are good nothing bad will happen to you as a result and you just might score a big hit.
With all this fake news stuff; who is supposed to be the determiner of what is real? The news agencies with the fake polls? The Fed government who declares unemployment is 5%?
>> After being exposed, Eichenwald apologized for his mistake with a third tweet.
Mistake, my eye. This was a deliberate lie designed to make Trump supporters look bad. A mistake is when you spell something incorrectly or make a grammatical error. It is not a mistake when you make up something out of thin air and report it as a fact.
Remember how reporters were portrayed in the movies a generation ago, especially the newspaper guys. Hard-bitten and skeptical, they were ‘reporters’ not ‘journalists’. The former reported the news whereas the latter report their opinion without differentiation from straight news. Sure, every newspaper had their opinion pieces in their editorial section BUT, in reaction to the previous generation’s ‘Yellow Press’ operations, that WW2 and post-war generation made that true effort to segregate opinion and news except on the editorial pages.
The dude needs to be fired. There is no possible excuse for making up crap that one knows is not true. No one should ever trust this loser again.
Eichenwald is nuttier than a fruitcake.
They just keep surprising me on how low they are willing to go.
This reporter truly has Trump Derangement Syndrome. He is the reporter who has epilepsy, the one some thought Trump was making fun of during one of his rallies
Of course it was later corrected~Trump was not making fun of him, but the reporter has written many nasty, untrue stories regarding Trump and the campaign.
He knows that the impact is in the initial tweet—a retraction later means little because so few low-information people follow that carefully. He should be fired!
I was there. We were booing the protesters they escorted out.
Newsspeak
I’m keeping a mental list of all fake news stories but they are so numerous I’ll just comment on every thread and compile a list.
It is so hard to track all this fake news while dodging sniper bullets.
I would like to commend Eichenwald for lying to the public because he presented another clear example to the world of why the mainstream news media in the U.S. has become despised and discredited by the vast majority of American citizens.