MEDIA If The Media Want To Stop ‘Disinformation,’ They Need To Give People Reasons To Trust Them

The Federalist ^ | February 10, 2020 | Mark Hemingway

[FamiliarFace]

I’d have to see actual footage of Trump saying that to believe that he said it exactly that way.

[1Old Pro]

fake news, out of context, kinda like the Schiff imaginary conversation.

[Jeff Chandler]

I think I’ve watched nearly every Trump rally and don’t remember him ever saying that.

Yeah, the author lost me there.

[Dr. Sivana]

Coppins’ article, like many that have come before it, seems to basically assume that the media consensus that reflects the worldview of a largely secular, center-left coastal overclass, a.k.a. subscribers to The Atlantic, is more or less the “truth.”

[Dr. Sivana]

At one point, during a riff on abortion, Trump casually asserted that ‘the governor of Virginia executed a baby’—prompting a woman in the crowd to scream, ‘Murderer!’

This incendiary fabrication didn’t seem to register with my companions in the press pen, [ . . . ]that there were certainly different ways to interpret his comments but that not even the most ardent anti-abortion activist thought the governor of Virginia had personally ‘executed a baby.;

By that reasoning, neither Herod, Capone nor Hitler would be "murders" because they didn't directly participate except through order or permission.

[Savage Beast]

It's going to take a hell of a lot of reason giving to get any honest person to trust these clowns!

[Calvin Locke]

I realized that every time the media reported an event I knew something about, they got it wrong.

That's because j-students are taught to angle the story towards the "greater truth", not what actually happened, or what actually caused it, or ...

[marktwain]

The "Executed a Baby" line is at 1:12:45 in the Tupelo facebook vidio of the Trump rally.

It is clearly a bit of hyperbole, which virtually everyone there knew was hyperbole.

Link to Tupelo MS Rally 1 November, 2020, on Youtube.

McKay Coppins is seeing the effect of the ablility of the common man to check out the reality with a few mouse clicks.

That is why no one trusts the old legacy media anymore.

That is a very good thing.

[OrioleFan]

My twin brother is constantly quoting Rachel Maddow. I don’t listen to him anymore and hang up on him often.