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So, credit where it's due, for once.

I just snagged the tweet from Eschaton; I don't know if NBC went so far as to have a high-priced camera personality say those words on the air.

Perhaps some of the problem is the format used where it is hard to distinguish commentary from news

Bloomberg is excellent in keeping it seperate

I also have a BBG terminal for work which is amazing.

it's pants on...about time the Big 3 found some balls to stuff into them.

The Moonves effect?

"Trump tweets, Trump lies"...should really be enough of a response for everything.

A standard story came in that started with the standard lede, “President Trump said today that...”. I truly don’t remember what Trump’s assertion was, but I do remember that it was a blatant lie.

I remember thinking that was too bad NPR didn’t finish with a standard disclaimer such as”, As is normal, the President is completely full of shit...”.

Or “lying his ass off”, “taken leave of his senses”, “demonstrates no respect for the truth”...

I just wish they would note when he is lying...which is almost all of the time.

CNN calls it out.

Link to tweet

And again

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WaPo calls it out.

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MSNBC calls it out.

Link to tweet

They call it out again

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I saw it live.

Thanks for providing the evidence. I'm so tired of the exasperated "If only the media" posts that can be easily refuted.

Do we always do our job well or completely? No. And our faults are manifold.

But the reflex "why aren't they covering this" posts that can easily be proved wrong are so tiresome.

this morning. and a few hundred other lying asssholes on 1500 radio stations follow his lead all day and week and that's the buzz in much of the rural "US.

like with all this alternate reality, liberals who ignore talk radio and live in cities always forget/ignore that factor. so even if the 'liberal media' may get it right much of the base is going to stay with him on that and global warming and russian collusion. slowly the secondary recipients of that buzz will come around and the polls seem to show it but until the lefts orgs stop ignoring talk radio so the msm starts to cover it better and the dem party starts to factor it in we're still fucked.

They all called him Luton it. nYDailyNews was scathing in its condemnation.

they're wrong to always lead the story by presenting donnie's lie. then, eventually, they say it's wrong.
at best that frames it as a debate as you note.

the story is not the particulars of donnie's lie, the story is the *fact* that he's lying.

so they should lead with "trump tweets another lie, this time about puerto rico", then present the *thruth*, and only then present donnie's lie about it, then finish up by repeating the truth.

this minimizes the likelihood of the substance of the lie sticking in people's brains in a way later to be retrieved incorrectly as the truth.

You can look at her face, the way her jaw is set and easily see she is PISSED!

https://www.mediaite.com/tv/cnns-camerota-smacks-trumps-puerto-rian-claims-they-didnt-die-of-old-age-they-died-of-neglect/

Quite simply, it's a very profitable entertainment business with all corporate sponsers who pay the bills. The hairdos nake megabucks for being what they are and aren't going to changeBeing very wealthy they all got enough to buy a yacht from the last GOP tax cut. If you really want to change the media simply kill their ratings by turning them off. If Toad loses a million viewers he is toast. We need to quit feeding the beast.

I get that and think it's good. This situation does, however, require a response.

Allison Camaro and Chris Cuomo did a good job of calling him out.

...is the day when any time some patsy comes on air and starts to spouts Trumpy points that are patently false, he or she is asked:
What are they giving you to say that?

is that the media is liberal.

The right owns the media and controls the narrative. None of the cable news networks are liberal. There are people on msnbc who stray from the narrative at times but that's about it.

The M$M helped elect Trump.

My idea for Tom Steyer on how to spend his money, start up a real progressive, liberal, cable news network to compete with the 3 major networks.

I can help with the anchors; Keith Olbermann, Bill Press, Stephanie Miller, Killer Mike. Bring over Michelle Wallace, Rachel Maddow and Chris Hayes. For diversity, bring over Shep Smith from Fox.

Anyone who thinks that msnbc is liberal isn't paying attention. It just puts a liberal slant to the right wing narrative.

interspersed with opinion, it makes it difficult for many folks to distinguish news from opinion

Maybe you're aware that Al Franken tried to do this about 13/14 years ago. Before he ran for the Senate he was part of a liberal group of media people who were taking on Fox News and the right-wing radio haters (Rush Limbaugh and that crowd.) It was a hard thing to start-up and it was even harder to find sponsors and advertisers. The network eventually folded after a few years.

If you ever get a chance google Air America Radio, or look for the documentary video called "Left of the Dial." It might be available at your local library, or maybe it's been posted on YouTube. (?)

As I've written more than once, in addition to false equivalencies, there's a tendency to treat all statements as equally valid opinions. No facts, no lies, just opinions.

The media goes out of its way to placate. Concentration in the hands of just a few giant corporations is part of the problem, but I think decades of "liberal media" rhetoric has taken a toll. Too many members of the media have a twisted sense of what constitutes fair reporting.

If we had state-run media, sure.

But we don’t, so our opinions of what are/aren’t the media’s responsibilities, unfortunately, don’t really matter.

references that he falsely claimed that 3000 people did not die.

I was a little surprised that it was there.

I'm not near a TV at the moment.

all morning, at least what I have heard this morning. Even listening in the car I heard John King say some truth about Trump and his lies. Not just the panels either they have been talking about it from the begining early this morning. There are times I wonder about Alisyn Camerota, I have felt like she brought some baggage from Fox but lately she has been angry and very much in the corner of the Democrats trying to stop some of this. This morning she was very angry over the Trump tweet. It was almost hard to look at her, like she was shooting eye arrows at the screen. I don't know, I watch for news and not really for partisanship but even so it seems to me that there are a lot of left turns being made or solidified.

:without any evidence".

Headline: Trump rebuked after questioning number of deaths attributed to Hurricane Maria
"President Trump falsely said that a high death count had been generated by Democrats to “make me look as bad as possible.” A George Washington University study estimated there were 2,975 “excess deaths” in the six months after Maria made landfall in Puerto Rico last September."

Please be selective in where you get your news and don't cast blanket statements about the media unless you've done some homework. I always check the Post, the NYT, and NPR's reporting first.

The NYT
Headline: Rejecting Puerto Rican Death Toll, Trump Accuses Democrats of Inflating It
"President Trump on Thursday falsely accused Democrats of inflating the death toll from Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico last year, rejecting that government’s assessment that the storm had claimed nearly 3,000 lives. Mr. Trump stated that the toll was only six to 18 dead after his visit following the storm and said Democrats padded the death toll by including, for example, a person who died of old age “in order to make me look as bad as possible.”

NPR
Headline: Trump Rejects Death Toll In Puerto Rico
"Public health officials say almost 3,000 died in Puerto Rico in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria. President Trump has questioned that figure. Journalist Adriana De Jesus Salaman offers perspective. Just as American prepare for a hurricane, president Trump has a conspiracy theory about an earlier storm.

Another Heasdline: Trump Denies Almost 3,000 Died In Puerto Rico, Falsely Claims Democrats Inflated Data:
"A study conducted by The Milken Institute School of Public Health at George Washington University, determined the death toll at 2,975, a figure accepted by Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosselló, and far beyond the previous official count of 64. FEMA administrator Brock Long wrote in a letter to Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts that there have been 2,431 applications for funeral assistance from Puerto Rico, as of July 30. Just 75 have been approved by the Trump administration so far because of eligibility questions."

As I pointed out below, newspapers always add the facts in AP or Rueters articles. The problem is people no longer want to soil their fingers with printer's ink. They want to watch cable news and hear Andrea Mitchell sternly call people liars to their face like a WWE interview. In that realm, reporters report, and pundits parse.

Cable news reporters are only there to get the statements. They don't have time to continually go to commercial breaks while the staff gathers facts to debate during an interview.

"The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."

We went thru this with Iraq War civilian death counts. There are often grounds for disputing these
calculations, and different methods will give different results - but by any reckoning the numbers
were vastly higher than our government's rosy scenario reports. Mr Trump has nothing to back
up his estimate, just his own hurricane of BS and the bully pulpit he's standing at.

The former reports well-documented information. The latter reports items that fit the political biases of their audience. The Trump tweet fits the bias of their conservative/Trump viewers but is in contradiction to well-documented information.

starting to gain media prominence.

Her comment about this was about the folly of "both sides!both sides!"/"but in fairness..."/fair and "balanced!" attempt to present opposing views to prove you're not partisan, yourself. Sometimes there is NO opposing view. Sometimes there's NO REASON to acknowledge a different opinion. And she gave the example of a report from, say, NASA or something, in which we must include a representative from the Flat Earth Society to give equal time to all arguments. NO!!! There's no reason in all of Heaven to bring in somebody from the fucking Flat Earth Society to dispute something from recognized space science!

I've always appreciated that particular metaphor. It does get the point across. Alex Jones comes to mind...

booked on average 2 conservatives for every liberal.

Reporting is NOT to parse half truths, ferret out whole or partial truths. They report. Reporting is what, when, where, who, and sometimes how & why.

Example of how a reporter might report Trump's statement:

That's an appropriate report. I don't want opinion in raw reporting of facts and statements. That's when you get into mushy territory. Because if the reporter says "that's a lie" when Trump says something, then another reporter can say "that's a lie" when Schumer says something. That's not what reporting is for.

It's the job of political commentators and talk show hosts to get into the nitty gritty. And editorials in newspapers and opinion articles in CNN.com, and Factchecker.org and Politifact.org, Politico, DailyBeast, and all the other opinion sources of information. The NYT and Washington Post do a lot of opinion research articles. Those are not raw reporting articles. They are the result of tips, leaks, and investigations, that a reporter puts together.

It's not true that the media doesn't cover Trump's lies as lies. It's well covered. There are so many lies that the media can't cover every single one. Chris Matthews called it Trump's ridiculous crazy statement last night. I think it was also covered on other political talk shows. It was well covered, for what it was. I think you may think the statement was more important than it was. Almost no one takes anything he says as truth, anymore. It was yet another shocking statement that denigrated brown people and Democrats. But it wasn't a big story. He's been lying in a lot of tweets daily here lately. They're just not that big a deal, any more, sorry to say.

Having said that, whenever there's an AP or Rueters item like this in the newspaper there's always a clarification of the facts somewhere in the article.

The problem is no one reads newspapers anymore. They're satisfied with cable news or (sigh) the internet where they handle the reporting, then spin the punditry separately. NBC interviews would cease if Andrea Mitchell or Chuck Todd kept interrupting to call people fucking liars. Then they would have to take a commercial break to Google the facts and present them in real time. I know I'd quit watching after the first chaotic segment.

Read a real newspaper if you want facts and only facts.

I must give him credit. He refuted trmp's BS denial, saying that he had been to the island 6 or 7 times and had seen the devastation (and death) first hand. He went on to say that people were slowly getting back on their feet after all of the neglect (by the federal government). He was promptly savaged by the GOP and no small number of Floridians. But at least he spoke up.

can get.

We know he wants their votes.. but at least he has to tell the truth as far as Hurricane Maria goes and the Puerto Ricans who perished.

I can't even imagine such a devastating Hurricane. We had a Cat 4 on this Island in 1992 and it tore the whole Island apart. But, there were only 6 deaths.. which is too many

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Iniki

Lots of damage. But thankfully, very little loss of life.

That was also the year Hurricane Andrew hit south Florida, which I think is one reason why Rick Scott had to be honest about the devastation on PR. Andrew destroyed Homestead and it never really recovered.

Sorry to hear they never really recovered.

https://www.floridamemory.com/blog/2012/08/24/hurricane-andrew-august-24-1992/

They want votes from the Puerto Ricans who fled from the hurricanes

I think I will always retain the image of Spanky throwing paper towels at the PR people in that presser he gave.

Good god. What a moron.

For instance, they'll have a real scientist debate a wackjob from the internet, like one side is as valid as the other and it's up for the user to decide. It's stupid.

such as our American POTUS, he or she should treat that as a sacred honor and insure everything that's broadcast globally is truthful and insure it does not induce false or excessive fear, and insure its content is free of racism, sexism or bigotry.

Trump has violated that unwritten rule of decency virtually every day since his inauguration (not even mentioning the campaign) and I believe it is the responsibility of our media and other platforms to clearly call out his lies and deceptions. They are breaking our trust by not doing so.

Using reasoning and fairness, we could tell the networks that in the future we will assume their advertisers are lying to us because they are operating a platform that condones lying every day.

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and Culpable for Puerto Rico as well as trump.

They can't be too stupid to understand that.

Fucking gd Fraud.. and the media that assisted Russia in getting his stupid ass rigged in.

This Tweet Trumps All Other Horrible Trump Tweets


The president's latest message about his handling of Hurricane Maria is quite possibly the worst string of words he's ever assembled.

Every report I heard on his tweet used a variation of the term ‘incorrectly’ claimed. Or falsely claimed. Or with out evidence.

The media did ok on this one. No one I heard gave him a pass. Of course I do not listen to Fox but I imagine the ignored the whole thing.

"Trump falsely claims 3,000 people didn't die in Puerto Rico."

That's a paraphrase, but the word 'false' was used.