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Can Speculation Be Defined as News?
Townhall.com ^ | January 4, 2017 | Brent Bozell

Posted on 01/04/2017 8:04:46 AM PST by Kaslin

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1 posted on 01/04/2017 8:04:46 AM PST by Kaslin
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Is HilLIARy a closet lesbian? The internet is about with questions. 24/7 coverage starting now!


2 posted on 01/04/2017 8:06:10 AM PST by Mr. K ( Trump kicked her ass 2-to-1 if you remove all the voter fraud.)
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If you’re a liberal, speculation against Trump is “fact”


3 posted on 01/04/2017 8:07:39 AM PST by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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Can Speculation Be Defined as News?

In a word, NO.

Moving right along...

When news and moron talking heads drive policy, it's time to ignore them as irrelevant.
When a useless social segment is determined to commit suicide, why not let them?

4 posted on 01/04/2017 8:11:24 AM PST by publius911 (IMPEACH HIM NOW evil, stupid, insane ignorant or just clueless, doesn't matter!)
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Well, liberal and “conservative” news sources spent the past 12 months filling their pages with stories about how the GOP was going to fall apart because of Trump’s nomination, and what a Hillary presidency was going to look like. That turned out to be a giant waste of space. Now they have moved on to fill their pages with stories about how horrible Trump is going to be, or how he is going to either be a conservative, racist, sexist ogre (liberal media) or a closet liberal who will stab conservatives in the back (Never Trump media). That is going to be a waste of space too. Is it any wonder why people have stopped reading these sources for the most part?


5 posted on 01/04/2017 8:12:40 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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In the days of George W. (Aw, gee, Biff) McFly, “Analysis” (OPINION) headline “news” was the norm.

For the Fraud, Big Media left off the “analysis” and simply printed all the lies they wanted to as headline “news”.


6 posted on 01/04/2017 8:16:13 AM PST by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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I do not think speculation or predictions are “news.” It is simply space-filler. I have long been annoyed by this.

It is one thing for a FR post to speculate about the future. We are a discussion forum. It is something else again - something untrue - to pretend that any “report” of things that haven’t happened is “news.”


7 posted on 01/04/2017 8:18:25 AM PST by Tax-chick ("He who is kind to the poor lends to the LORD, and He will repay him for his deed." Pv. 19:17)
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Hey imbeciles! Elections have consequences.
In the immortal words of Diane Feinswein...



YOU LOST!

DEAL WITH IT!

8 posted on 01/04/2017 8:21:40 AM PST by publius911 (IMPEACH HIM NOW evil, stupid, insane ignorant or just clueless, doesn't matter!)
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The MSM considers a lot of things to be news... things like speculation, myth, junk science, I mean look at the whole schtiick about global warming!


9 posted on 01/04/2017 8:26:57 AM PST by mainestategop (DonÂ’t Let Freedom Slip Away! After America , There is No Place to Go)
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"I do not think speculation or predictions are “news.” It is simply space-filler. I have long been annoyed by this."

Let's face it the actual "news" of any given day could be covered, at length, in a 90 minute broadcast. In fact, that's how it was done for decades, but only from one point of view. Thus, well over 90% of what the MSM broadcasts now is speculation, prediction, opinion, editorializing, fluff, filler and entertainment and downright lying in its passion for 24/7 "news" broadcasting. I like how most of the talking heads call what they do "opinion journalism". Ha - that's a oxymoron if I've ever heard one.

10 posted on 01/04/2017 8:30:58 AM PST by circlecity
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“I mean look at the whole schtiick about global warming!”

Now it’s all about “climate change” and Hussein-worshippers bashing the “fools” who don’t believe it happens (without leftist freaks acknowledging the requirement that we believe that WE cause it).


11 posted on 01/04/2017 8:33:00 AM PST by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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Can Speculation Be Defined as News?

Can News Be Defined as Speculation? YES!

12 posted on 01/04/2017 8:41:17 AM PST by VideoDoctor
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"Can Speculation Be Defined as News?"

.... Apparently the answer is Yes since the Media is handling the Russian "Hacking" of the election as actual fact.

13 posted on 01/04/2017 8:50:33 AM PST by R_Kangel ( "A Nation of Sheep ..... Will Beget ..... a Nation Ruled by Wolves.")
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It always has been by the New York Times.


14 posted on 01/04/2017 9:05:50 AM PST by MrEdd (MrEdd)
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They make speculation into news by reporting that an “expert” said it. The hard “news” is that the expert said it. By extension, reporters can just quote each other, or a reporter can even just quote himself, and it’s news. Just the facts.


15 posted on 01/04/2017 9:06:16 AM PST by rightwingcrazy ("We will not tolerate those who are intolerant of the intolerant.")
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“Can Speculation Be Defined as News?”

Not without a live chicken and a Rabbi


16 posted on 01/04/2017 9:27:07 AM PST by SMARTY ("What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self. "M. Stirner)
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Only when it supports a Democrat narrative. Then it’s headlines.


17 posted on 01/04/2017 2:31:55 PM PST by Ray76 (DRAIN THE SWAMP)
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"In 2017, the most interesting political figure not named Trump will be?" The choices (in order) are Gov. Jerry Brown, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Sen. Chuck Schumer ...

It's not going to be any of those people.

Or if it is, it's going to be a very dull year.

18 posted on 01/04/2017 2:36:58 PM PST by x
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“Can Speculation Be Defined as News?”

Can the Gospel of Obama be treated as truthful?

Nope n Nope ....

Come on Jan. 21st !!!!


19 posted on 01/04/2017 2:39:37 PM PST by litehaus (A memory toooo lon and take that fruitcake bro with ya ?g)
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On MSNBC, Rachel Maddow announced: "I've been reading a lot about what it was like when Hitler first became chancellor. ... I think that's possibly where we are."

First, I would suggest that Rachel Maddow actually study a bit of history and learn a little about Hitler. Substitute "conservative" for "Jew" in modern liberal rhetoric, and you have something pretty close to the Nazi rhetoric of the 1930s and 40s. The Nazi party platform was not that different from the current Democrat party platform.

Second, Rachel is partially correct: the liberal practice of intimidating, threatening, assaulting people and damaging or destroying property of anyone who disagrees with the liberal agenda is eerily similar to the actions of Nazi brownshirts who used such tactics to cement Nazi power.

Watch out for Democrat projection: since they always project what they themselves plan or think, and their projections are becoming more violent, there is strong reason to be concerned. Very concerned.

20 posted on 01/05/2017 3:14:13 AM PST by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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