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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI can't stand the tightrope the media walks for drumpf
So I just heard on ABC news that drumpf claims he signed more laws in his first year than anyone ever. ABC news said that it was a "fact disputed by many."
HUH??????????????
You don't have to present "both sides" of a story like this as if there is something to be debated. There is a real, concrete, verifiable NUMBER of bills drumpf has signed. Figure out the number, and put it on the screen. THAT'S IT
but instead they use this language that implies two sides to the story, perhaps to placate the deplorables? Hey, they already think everything you say is fake, and they get all their "news" from Fox and InfoWars, so why even bother to try to warp reality for their sake? JUST REPORT THE FACTS.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,121 posts)that, not so much.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Trump bragged that the tax bill was the largest tax cut in history. Not even close. Seventh largest at best. Trump's bragging about the number of laws? Again, and as you said, this is a number that can be quantified. Numbers aren't subject to opinion. "Some people say" the Patriots beat the Falcons in the Super Bowl, but others dispute that because Atlanta was up 28-3 in the third quarter.
It's not a matter of opinion!
thegoose
(3,115 posts)First they talk about the draconian tax bill he shoved up America's ass and the 400 lies he told this week, then they immediately get all sparkly-eyed and say, "The president is spending a magical holiday with his loved ones at Dump-a-Ripoff."
"He's taking calls from children!"
"Moronia is serving eggnog!"
Fuck OFF!
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)iluvtennis
(19,871 posts)RKP5637
(67,112 posts)get fed up with it. Tell it like it is.
sprinkleeninow
(20,255 posts)RKP5637
(67,112 posts)old guy
(3,283 posts)With reporting like this.. Ah hell it's not worth the irritation.
ffr
(22,671 posts)F*ck ABC News anyway for suspending Brian Ross!
Igel
(35,356 posts)It's 6 days old, but not much has changed since last Wednesday.
Notice that for those paying attention, this is a giant steaming mound of snark. Various publications have pointed out very loudly and clearly in the last week or so what the numbers are, and ABC is just responding to Trump's bogus counter-claim.
"A fact disputed by many" just reminds people of what they know. Without pissing off people who wouldn't pay attention anyway.
kairos12
(12,872 posts)BadgerMom
(2,771 posts)A-effing-men was what I actually thought.
mountain grammy
(26,648 posts)pres. trump stopped by his golf club
Stopped by. Didnt golf, stopped by...fuck.
iluvtennis
(19,871 posts)to say that Trump's FALSE comments about Haitians having aides, Nigerians living in huts, were wrong.
When I see the "reporters" doing stuff like this, I turn the channel.
They and their lack of making Humpty Dumpty accountable for his statements is one of the major reasons there is an orange buffoon in the oval office.
Generic Brad
(14,275 posts)Just saying.
diva77
(7,656 posts)sprinkleeninow
(20,255 posts)on The News Hour. Oh, go pave the way and make it easy for the idiot to answer with lying lies.
I don't recall who it was.
I got so steamed. Shouted at the tube what the hell is wrong with you lady?!!
diva77
(7,656 posts)while the newshour fails to present real facts from true experts --
And their regular commentators are weak too
sprinkleeninow
(20,255 posts)I don't know if the question was supposed to be a 'gotcha', but it sure did frost me. Some viewers may be too stoopid to catch that, and so it continues.
I can't figure Public Media out. One minute they come off liberal, the next minute they appear to be on the darkside.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,036 posts)They will soon learn that in the age of the internet, "both sides" media/sites get clicked away from.
Partisans click over to partisan sites.
Truth and real news seekers click over to true fact sites.
NRaleighLiberal
(60,019 posts)brooklynite
(94,727 posts)LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)I'm not surprised at all you inaccurately inferred as such.
brooklynite
(94,727 posts)"ABC news said that it was a "fact disputed by many." "
What am I missing?
Takket
(21,625 posts)any more than saying that the claim the Earth is flat is "disputed by many" is a repudiation of the claim.
Oh really? Disputed by who? How many bills has he signed? how many did other presidents sign?
MurrayDelph
(5,301 posts)"The Southern White House."
If they want to give it any nickname, howabout calling it "Casa de Emoluments"?
Qutzupalotl
(14,327 posts)The rest are executive orders. He did sign a bunch of those in between golf outings.
Atman
(31,464 posts)You can "dispute" anything you want. Why is it so hard for a new org to say "HE'S LYING?"
Corvo Bianco
(1,148 posts)Good luck! Journalism is all about saying absolutely nothing, doncha know?
Democracy Now is the only place I've found that uses the word lie when appropriate, so I listen every morning.
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)Balance, for its own sake, is never a grace. It is wholly irrelevant to objectivity, to accuracy and to facts.
Circus performers need it, editorialists crave it, but that's about it.
"Dihydrogen Monoxide - dangerous killer or important supplement?" is 'balanced'. It's also idiocy.