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New York Times Faces Backlash After Source Repudiates Anti-Rick Perry Story
Mediaite ^ | 1.19.17 | Alex Griswold

Posted on 01/19/2017 12:19:03 PM PST by pissant

The New York Times faced a backlash Thursday after its only source for a negative story on former Texas governor Rick Perry accused them of taking his remarks out of context.

The Times reported Wednesday evening that when Perry accepted Donald Trump‘s nomination for the Secretary of Energy position, he “initially misunderstood” what the job even was.

“Mr. Perry gladly accepted, believing he was taking on a role as a global ambassador for the American oil and gas industry that he had long championed in his home state,” they wrote. “In the days after, Mr. Perry… discovered that he would be no such thing — that in fact, if confirmed by the Senate, he would become the steward of a vast national security complex he knew almost nothing about, caring for the most fearsome weapons on the planet, the United States’ nuclear arsenal.”

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TOPICS: Government
KEYWORDS: fakenews; fakestreammedia; pizzagazetteny; rickperry; trump
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The FAKE NEWS has hit a fever pitch lately.
1 posted on 01/19/2017 12:19:03 PM PST by pissant
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To: pissant

The NYT will soon be living in a cardboard box in front of the NYT Building.


2 posted on 01/19/2017 12:21:06 PM PST by Paladin2 (No spellcheck. It's too much work to undo the auto wrong word substitution on mobile devices.)
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To: pissant
Looks like the Pizza Gazette-NY #FakeNews takes another gut-punch to their "credibility"...
3 posted on 01/19/2017 12:23:54 PM PST by kiryandil (Will Hillary's BrownShirt Media thugs demand that The Deplorables all wear six-pointed Orange Stars?)
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To: pissant

I wonder whether this is sloppy reporting from random trolls, or whether this is Russia hacking our free press. I blame the Russians.

[Note to the NYT staffer lurking on this thread: You can quote me on Russia, and I’ll stand behind my story with all the loyalty your paper shows to America, perhaps even with the trustworthiness of Lucy holding a football for Charlie Brown to kick.]


4 posted on 01/19/2017 12:27:53 PM PST by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: Pollster1

5 posted on 01/19/2017 12:38:17 PM PST by Paladin2 (No spellcheck. It's too much work to undo the auto wrong word substitution on mobile devices.)
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To: pissant

I wonder if we will see the day when the national MSM is held to account for it’s sins, and a return of journalistic integrity?

All that is really is a sense of conscience - a self-imposed discpline to report fairly and honestly, the same ethics that good parents try to instill in their children. And just like the kid who ignores that teaching and ends up in prison, so has the MSM been the cause of its own demise.


6 posted on 01/19/2017 12:39:08 PM PST by bigbob (We have better coverage than Verizon - Can You Hear Us Now?)
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To: pissant

The reason the MSM is trying to kill the term “Fake News” is that almost all samples are from them.


7 posted on 01/19/2017 12:44:33 PM PST by alternatives? (Why have an army if there are no borders?)
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The MSM is the Country’s greatest threat.


8 posted on 01/19/2017 12:45:58 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Paladin2

Very cute... “:^)


9 posted on 01/19/2017 12:53:41 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Obama, Clinton, McStain, and Graham, with people like this, who needs enemies?)
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To: Gene Eric

Remember how the democrats and MSM were screaming for a fairness doctrine? Now is the time to give them one. Do it in a way that every broadcast, every article, every show is regulated to a point to where either the truth is told, or the fine and loss of license is too great for them to operate.


10 posted on 01/19/2017 12:56:51 PM PST by EQAndyBuzz (CNN - The Chicken Noodle Network)
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To: pissant

That the Energy Department has ANYTHING to do with nuclear weapons is a travesty.


11 posted on 01/19/2017 12:58:58 PM PST by Jim Noble (Die Gedanken sind Frei)
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To: pissant

Protocol: Hand over your WH credentials (or be required to sit waaaaaaaaaaay in the back) for 90 days. Next offense, 180 days, followed by 360.


12 posted on 01/19/2017 1:00:23 PM PST by Made In The USA (Rap music: Soundtrack of the retarded.)
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To: bigbob

I am worried that they will have cried wolf so many times that no one will believe them and that will be when we need to believe them.

They have been bias as far back as I can remember. Heck, their misrepresentation of Communism during the Cold War was obvious (hindsight is 20-20). The Communists were indeed evil yet the media always seemed to be willing to give them the benefit of the doubt.


13 posted on 01/19/2017 1:00:58 PM PST by dhs12345
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To: pissant

The nyt is a mother faker!


14 posted on 01/19/2017 1:07:24 PM PST by Vision Thing (You see the depths of our hearts, and You love us the same...)
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But the NYT said they were going to report honestly?

I guess they are like Hillary......they never give up an opportunity to lie if they think it will advance their agenda.

15 posted on 01/19/2017 1:09:55 PM PST by Robert357 (D.Rather "Hoist with his own petard!" www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1223916/posts)
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The success of especially Breitbart.com has finally forced people to realize that the MSM is essentially the propaganda arm of the Democratic Party. And this could finally mean the end of mass media as Alvin Toffler prophesized 36 years ago when he wrote The Third Wave.
16 posted on 01/19/2017 1:18:07 PM PST by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's economic cure)
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>> Remember how the democrats and MSM were screaming for a fairness doctrine?

I do. I was thinking about that the other day.

I’d prefer the public let the parent companies know how they feel instead of regulations. Parent companies include: Disney, Comcast, Time Warner, and somewhat Amazon. These companies are effectively pissing on half the Country, and in my opinion, don’t deserve to be patronized for it.

Regarding PBS, it should be either dissolved or required to demonstrate equitable content and opinion. Currently, it doesn’t.


17 posted on 01/19/2017 1:20:07 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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It's now funny to me when the NYT, WaPo, CNN, et.al. get nailed for pooping in the Hallowed Halls of Journalism and then try to pass a lame excuse to avoid responsibility. A good mocking and large amount of ridicule seems like therapy to me.

I'm also sure they are very sorry for pointing out Fake News using that moniker.

18 posted on 01/19/2017 1:28:32 PM PST by Paladin2 (No spellcheck. It's too much work to undo the auto wrong word substitution on mobile devices.)
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"The success of especially Breitbart.com has finally forced people to realize that the MSM is essentially the propaganda arm of the Democratic Party."

What's interesting is that they're expanding, adding foreign bureaus and such, while the rest of the MSM is contracting. I was pleasantly surprised to read that according to Alexa, their web traffic is now higher than the Washington Post, NY Times, Fox News and the Huffington Post.
19 posted on 01/19/2017 1:34:48 PM PST by KamperKen
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To: Paladin2

Folks on our side neutered a number of attempts to denigrate us with titles this last 20 months or so.

Hillary called us deplorables. We instantly wore the title like a sport coat and were proud of it. It signified the loyal opposition to the Leftists.

You mentioned fake news. They tried to pin that one on us, and we didn’t bat an eye-lash. We just started calling them on it every time they published fake news. All of a sudden, it wasn’t a very happy moment for them. LOL

I’m sure there are other examples.

Our side finally came alive and shoved everything back in their faces.


20 posted on 01/19/2017 1:35:05 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Obama, Clinton, McStain, and Graham, with people like this, who needs enemies?)
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