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CNN Journalism Expert: 'Dictator' Trump Is Driving the Poor Fact-Checkers 'to Exhaustion'
PJ Media ^ | 04/08/2019 | Tyler O'Neil

Posted on 04/08/2019 2:11:26 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd

On Monday, Goucher College journalism professor and longtime Baltimore Sun media critic David Zurawik accused President Donald Trump of using a dictator tactic — telling so many lies as to exhaust the free press into silence.

"He says something that’s really offensive about immigrants, and then Tucker Carlson says immigration makes us a dirtier country," Zurawik said. "That is really destructive to American life."

He urged journalists to fight back. "We have to denounce it, but every time we do that, every time we chase that down, he is setting the agenda for what we cover, and none of us, I don’t think any of us have figured that out yet," the professor argued.

Yet the free press can't stop fact-checking Trump either, Zurawik argued. "He drives us to exhaustion. If we quit fact-checking him, if we accept this, he wins. That’s the way dictators win, they drive the free press almost to exhaustion with this."

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Poor darling snowflakes.

Poor POOR tired and exhausted darlings.

1 posted on 04/08/2019 2:11:26 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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Too tired to learn to code.


2 posted on 04/08/2019 2:12:39 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd ( Import the third world and you'll become the third world.)
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Fact Checkers hit the hardest!


3 posted on 04/08/2019 2:12:52 PM PDT by proust (Justice delayed is injustice.)
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you mean they’re not tired of lying for the left, but they’re tired of lying MORE when they “fact check”? I get it now s/


4 posted on 04/08/2019 2:13:46 PM PDT by max americana (Fired libtards at our company for the past 12 yrs at every election. I hope all liberals die.)
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CNN Journalism Expert

Now that is funny.

5 posted on 04/08/2019 2:15:23 PM PDT by IC Ken (Stop making stupid people famous)
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The professor almost gets it right: "he is setting the agenda for what we cover, and none of us, I don’t think any of us have figured that out yet,..."

Trump is setting the agenda and getting in their heads. At that, he is a master!

6 posted on 04/08/2019 2:15:33 PM PDT by the_Watchman
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These can’t be the ones that fact checked Obama as they all died from exhaustion.


7 posted on 04/08/2019 2:15:39 PM PDT by antidemoncrat
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Well, they had 8 years of rest......................


8 posted on 04/08/2019 2:17:05 PM PDT by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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They’re spending so much time trying to show that Trump is lying that they don’t have much time left over to manufacture new lies to broadcast.

If they can’t drive the agenda instead of just reporting the news they go crazy.


9 posted on 04/08/2019 2:17:45 PM PDT by SharpRightTurn (Chuck Schumer--giving pond scum everywhere a bad name.)
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I thought journalists were supposed to be checking facts. Isn’t that their core function, to find out facts and report them?


10 posted on 04/08/2019 2:17:51 PM PDT by thoughtomator (The Clinton Coup attempt was a worse attack on the USA than was 9/11)
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David Zurawi, you stupid twit...If Trump were a dictator, you’d be making little rocks outta big rocks in some hell n hole right now...


11 posted on 04/08/2019 2:18:13 PM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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CNN/FACT CHECKER: Isn’t that oxymoronic?


12 posted on 04/08/2019 2:18:39 PM PDT by o-n-money
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Poor Baby, could you imagine how hard it would be t LIE to everyone, everyday, about everything and call it NEWS by a Free Press!!!


13 posted on 04/08/2019 2:19:35 PM PDT by eyeamok
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FAKE fact Checkers is more like it.


14 posted on 04/08/2019 2:21:22 PM PDT by EdnaMode
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He’s making the job of the Ministry of Propaganda SO HARD.

He keeps telling the truth.


15 posted on 04/08/2019 2:22:43 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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Talk about an oxymoron...CNN Journalism Expert.


16 posted on 04/08/2019 2:24:50 PM PDT by Leep (It's.. (W)all or nothing..!)
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Yes, poor darlings is right. They should check themselves into a concentration camp where they can concentrate on how dumb, biased and out of touch they are.


17 posted on 04/08/2019 2:24:51 PM PDT by BEJ
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A case of leftish media shouting ‘wolf’ endlessly.

They couldn’t tell the ‘truth’ if they tried any more (as if they ever cared), and now can only whine about themselves being so attacked for being degenerate liars - the enemies of Truth.

A leftist ‘fact checker’ is an Oxymoron.


18 posted on 04/08/2019 2:25:00 PM PDT by elbook
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Image result for David Zurawik caricature

Obvious heavy thinker.

19 posted on 04/08/2019 2:25:03 PM PDT by chief lee runamok (expect nothing)
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Uh, if Trump were truly a dictator, would anyone be fact checking him?


20 posted on 04/08/2019 2:25:58 PM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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