Posted on 06/18/2018 8:43:19 AM PDT by Beave Meister
We the media have fact-checked President Trump like we have fact-checked no other human being on the planetand hes certainly given us plenty to write about. Thats probably why its so easy to find lists enumerating and examining his mistakes, missteps and lies. But as self-appointed arbiters of truth, weve largely excused our own unprecedented string of fact-challenged reporting. The truth is, formerly well-respected, top news organizations are making repeat, unforced errors in numbers that were unheard of just a couple of years ago.
Our repeat mistakes involve declaring that Trumps claims are lies when they are matters of opinion, or when the truth between conflicting sources is unknowable; taking Trumps statements and events out of context; reporting secondhand accounts against Trump without attribution as if theyre established fact; relying on untruthful, conflicted sources; and presenting reporter opinions in news storieswithout labeling them as opinions.
(Excerpt) Read more at sharylattkisson.com ...
It’s a mistake to call them mistakes. There is nothing accidental or incidental about most of the media’s characterization of events and issues
Purposeful lies to support their activism as they pursue their Left Wing ideology and causes.
Trump’s management style seems to be that of bombastic chaos. That keeps everybody off balance. It also drives the media into lies about Trump when his actions or behavior does not fit the progressive agenda.
https://sharylattkisson.com/2018/06/10/50-media-mistakes-in-the-trump-era-the-definitive-list/
1. Aug. 2016-Nov. 2016:
The New York Post published modeling photos of Trumps wife Melania and reported they were taken in 1995. Various news outlets relied on that date to imply that Melaniaan immigranthad violated her visa status. But the media got the date wrong. Politico was among the news agencies that later issued a photo date correction.
2. Oct. 1, 2016:
The New York Times and other media widely suggested or implied that Trump had not paid income taxes for 18 years. Later, tax return pages leaked to MSNBC ultimately showed that Trump actually paid a higher rate than Democrats Bernie Sanders and President Obama.
3. Oct. 18, 2016:
In a Washington Post piece not labelled opinion or analysis, Stuart Rothenberg reported that Trumps path to an electoral college victory was nonexistent.
4. Nov. 4, 2016:
USA Today misstated Melania Trumps arrival date from Slovenia amid a flurry of reporting that questioned her immigration status from the mid-1990s.
5. Nov. 9, 2016:
Early on election night, the Detroit Free Press called the state of Michigan for Hillary Clinton. Trump actually won Michigan.
Nancy Sinatra via Twitter
6. Jan. 20, 2017:
CNN claimed Nancy Sinatra was not happy at her fathers song being used at Trumps inauguration. Sinatra responded, Thats not true. I never said that. Why do you lie, CNN?
Actually Im wishing him the best.
7. Jan. 20, 2017:
Zeke Miller of TIME reported that President Trump had removed the bust statue of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. from the Oval Office. The news went viral. It was false.
8. Jan. 26, 2017:
Josh Rogin of the Washington Post reported that the State Departments entire senior administrative team had resigned in protest of Trump. A number of media outlets ranging from politically left to right, including liberal-leaning Vox, stated that claim was misleading or wrong.
9. Jan. 28, 2017
CNBCs John Harwood reported the Justice Department had no input on Trumps immigration executive order. After a colleague contradicted Harwoods report, he amended it to reflect that Justice Department lawyers reportedly had reviewed Trumps order.
10. Jan. 31, 2017:
CNNs Jeff Zeleny reported the White House set up Twitter accounts for two judges to try to keep Trumps selection for Supreme Court secret. Zeleny later corrected his report to state that the Twitter accounts had not been set up by the White House.
These people are not even close to professionals - I wish for them each to have this experience in their personal lives and find it to be devastating.
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Mega Bump
Far from definitive, but excellent nonetheless.
Bump
its not ‘mistakes’ its ‘collusion’ and lying/fraud
John Harwood is a real piece of $h1t.
Just last week he was spreading some very salacious stuff:
HARWOOD: I got to say that the upshot about this press conference was about tariffs. I'll be honest as a citizen: I'm concerned about the president's state of mind. He did not look well to me in that press conference. He was not speaking logically or rationally. It sounded as if he was making stuff up, saying China told me nobody's ever talked to us, saying, 'Oh, I talked to Justin Trudeau and can't believe he was getting away with so much trade stuff.'I don't think those things are true. And he -- there was something about his affect which was oddly kind of languid for him. I don't know what it means but he did not look well to me.
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