Posted on 02/27/2017 10:27:45 AM PST by HarleyLady27
Basic reporting errors by Reuters and NPR resulted in journalists falsely reporting that President Trump attended a foreign diplomat’s party at Trump’s D.C. hotel in what was portrayed as a possible pay-to-play scenario.
NPR and Reuters both reported that Kuwait’s ambassador to the U.S., Salem al-Sabah, was throwing a gala in honor of his country’s independence day at the Trump International Hotel. Reuters definitively placed the event as happening on Saturday, while NPR’s coverage implied the same.
According to Reuters, the event was expected to cost between $40,000 and $60,000. When Trump was spotted at the hotel on Saturday, a number of prominent journalists on Twitter spread the allegation that Trump was appearing at al-Sabah’s party after the ambassador gave Trump tens of thousands of dollars in business.
There’s just one problem — the party took place on Wednesday, not Saturday, hotel staff confirmed to The Daily Caller. But by the time the facts came to light, the media had already widely circulated the false story.
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Ping...
More lies and excuses for their junk news.
Error or malfeasance.
I don’t believe it was simple error, until someone is actually punished.
Because we know that the media won’t punish malfeasance against Trump.
Just more fake news.
Why research when you can just make it up?
Why are the taxpayers still paying for the Democrat party’s propaganda machine??? NPR
If only the government can have guns, why is it only the citizen should have twitter?
The thing that made me laugh the most, the media went out of their way to get ‘something on President Trump’....the event was held during the week....President Trump was there with Nigel and Ivanka on Saturday and even when they found that out, they still didn’t correct it...
Sad for them, what fools they are making of themselves...by this Summer, the media will be gone...
Good question,....your answer would be found in acknowledging that the Republicrat, Rockefeller Republican globalist establishment is not an authentic opposition party.
NPR could be easily defunded, as could the UN.....
Just a phone call to confirm... we are the press we are allowed to produce half-passed reports
They are sooooo eager to trap President Trump that they are ready, willing and able to dump all their credibility in the toilet to be able to do so. The don’t care if it’s fake news, it gets circulated to all their sycophants and they’ll believe it no matter what!
Even if you make a formal retraction later, the damage has been done so that the fake news becomes the truth in the useful idiots’ minds............
Defund NPR!!!
In view of the way the media contorted itself to excuse Hillary’s massive pay-to-play schemes, they have no credibility to cover anything relating to pay to play in the Trump Administration.
“fools they are making of themselves...by this Summer, the media will be gone...”
Now we hammer them lies with the truth and use good old conservative humor to hammer them with.
Liberal mediots can’t handle the truth and cutting edge humor aimed at them. Just a simple words drive them even crazier:
Junk/Fake news.
If it’s your ‘job’ to research and report FACTS, then yes... it’s ‘malfeasance’.
btt
Why isn’t it a misdemeanor to lie to the public in print?
I thought we had ‘slander’ laws....if I wrote a story about you, just made it up and you could prove it was lies, wouldn’t you take me to court and sue me for slander???
Why can’t the government do the same thing to the media...the media is not an elected body of the government (even if they think they are) so should be subject to the same laws, they are only citizens the way we are...
Just saying...
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