[VIDEO] ‘You Are Fake News!’ Trump Confronts CNN’s Jim Acosta
Posted: January 11, 2017 Filed under: Mediasphere, White House | Tags: CNN, Donald Trump, Fact checker, Hillary Clinton, Jim Acosta, John Hegeman, media, New York City, news, Pew Research Center, Press Conference, Vladimir Putin, White House Presser Leave a commentGame Change: After 8 years of Obama, the press is so used to passive-aggressive, they forgot what aggressive looks like.
With Trump looking to call on other reporters, Jim Acosta yelled out, “Since you are attacking us, can you give us a question?”
“Not you,” Trump said. “Your organization is terrible!”
Acosta pressed on, “You are attacking our news organization, can you give us a chance to ask a question, sir?” Trump countered by telling him “don’t be rude.”
“I’m not going to give you a question,” Trump responded. “I’m not going to give you a question. You are fake news!” Read the rest of this entry »
Congratulations #NBC News: The Stupidest Tweet in Media History
Posted: October 10, 2016 Filed under: Mediasphere, Politics, U.S. News | Tags: Chris Wallace, Commission on Presidential Debates, Donald Trump, Fact checker, Fox News Channel, Hillary Clinton, Iraq War, Jim Lehrer, Matt Lauer, NBC Leave a commentThis morning in The Federalist:
…That brings me to the broader issue of this alleged “fact-checking” the media feels impelled to engage in during debates. Most of the pushback from moderators last night was arguable assertions or half-truths, and Trump was often debating 3-on-1, as he correctly asserted.
MOLLIE: Oh man, speaking of “fact checkers” you have got to see this.
It’s real, not a parody of fact checking. Totally real. Not photoshpped.
DAVID: Seriously, they’ve lost their minds. There are exceptions, yet so many journalists have been consumed by anti-Trump sentiment that they’ve lost any sense of professionalism — or, more precisely, Trump has given them an excuse to stop pretending. The moderators were hardly any better.
[Read the full story here, at thefederalist.com]
MOLLIE: They were both disasters. Cooper started poorly, visibly displaying anger, constantly interrupting Trump. He kept saying, in playground style, “Please let her talk. She let you talk.” Or something like that. This is just a strategically unwise move, as it seems petty and juvenile.
Raddatz started fine, because she was mostly silent, and got off a few good questions to each candidate, but then she just lost it. A common criticism of moderators is that they think they’re debating the candidates. But in last night’s debate, Raddatz seemed to forget that she wasn’t a candidate herself. The moment where she began debating Trump on foreign policy was epicly awful. Read the rest of this entry »
Here’s How ‘Serious’ Journalists Tried to Smear the Koch Brothers Seminar
Posted: August 6, 2015 Filed under: Mediasphere, Politics, U.S. News | Tags: Bias, Charles G. Koch, Civil rights movement, Fact checker, media, news, The Washington Post, Time Magazine, United States, Women's suffrage Leave a commentThe Washington Post’s blunder is not as bad as that of TIME. The magazine published an article with the hysterical headline ‘Charles Koch says U.S. can bomb its way to $100K salaries’. They later changed the headline.
Casey Given writes: Last weekend, the Koch Brothers opened up their exclusive fundraising seminars to the media for the very first time. After years of speculating about what goes on behind the closed doors of the Kochs’ extensive political network, the press could finally see for themselves.
One would think that a decent journalist would repay this tremendous sign of good will with fair reporting on the Kochs’ words and intentions, but good journalism apparently doesn’t sell anymore. While it’s no surprise that the liberal blogosphere and Twitterverse erupted in outrage about the Koch seminars (as they always do), what’s shocking is how prestigious news outlets covered the event.
First, the Washington Post published an article with the headline “Charles Koch compares the work of his network to the civil right movement” — the perfect fodder to get the far left outraged at the supposedly out-of-touch “conservative” billionaire. But what did Koch actually say? From the article’s body:
“History demonstrates that when the American people get motivated by an issue of justice that they believe is just, extraordinary things can be accomplished,” Koch told 450 wealthy conservatives assembled in the ballroom of a lavish oceanfront resort here.
“Look at the American revolution, the anti-slavery movement, the women’s suffrage movement, the civil rights movement,” he said. “All of these struck a moral chord with the American people. They all sought to overcome an injustice. And we, too, are seeking to right injustices that are holding our country back.”
Koch made no such comment comparing the magnitude of his political agenda to the civil rights movement. Rather, he simply cited the civil rights movement (among others) as an inspiration to fight injustice. Considering their work promoting school choice for poor minority children and criminal justice reform for prisoners convicted of nonviolent crimes, the Kochs are clearly fighting injustice. But Koch would have to be an egomaniac to claim that his politics are more important than the American Revolution — which is why he said no such thing. Read the rest of this entry »
UPDATE: Important Headline Correction!
Posted: June 30, 2015 Filed under: Entertainment, Mediasphere, Politics, White House | Tags: 2016 Presidential Campaign, Editorial Error, Fact checker, Flames, Hillary Clinton, News Update, The Clinton Foundation, The Pantsuit Report, Weeping Leave a commentIn our previous news story, the headline said “Girl Bursts into Flames After Hillary Touches Her’. The headline should be “Girl Bursts into Tears After Hillary Touches Her’. Our team of fact checkers and lawyers overlooked this understandable error. Fortunately, we discovered it. There is no independent verification of a girl bursting into flames at a Hillary Clinton event. We reviewed the video, and confirmed that. We regret our mistake.
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