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demmiblue

(36,858 posts)
Wed Oct 10, 2018, 08:54 AM Oct 2018

Daniel Dale: USA Today not only published a White House press release disguised as an "op-ed by...

USA Today not only published a White House press release disguised as an “op-ed by Donald Trump,” it is using its Twitter account to blast out the article’s lies to 3.6 million followers.



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Daniel Dale: USA Today not only published a White House press release disguised as an "op-ed by... (Original Post) demmiblue Oct 2018 OP
this is why we must fight disinformation Kurt V. Oct 2018 #1
"willing collaborators w/ a pathological liar" dalton99a Oct 2018 #2
This!!!!!!!!! Freethinker65 Oct 2018 #3
USA Today should be ashamed. SunSeeker Oct 2018 #4
Here we go again, watoos Oct 2018 #5
Because that is the topic at hand. n/t demmiblue Oct 2018 #9
Who is "singling out" USA Today? kcr Oct 2018 #17
USAtoday is fullfilling tRumps fake news claim nt elmac Oct 2018 #6
USA Today - I ignore it every day. bitterross Oct 2018 #7
Boycott USA Today lark Oct 2018 #8
I remember when you used to see them in all the mid-price hotels. sandensea Oct 2018 #10
Disgusting! n/t dajoki Oct 2018 #11
USA Today is stuck under most hotel room doors!!! Duppers Oct 2018 #12
Yes. It's the hotel room newspaper. kcr Oct 2018 #18
Buuuuut, it's the NY Times that's fake, right???? lindysalsagal Oct 2018 #13
Time to cancel your USA Today subscription FakeNoose Oct 2018 #14
USA Today should have to apologize for this crap ZeroSomeBrains Oct 2018 #15
USA today is in the Ganett publishing family and INdemo Oct 2018 #16

SunSeeker

(51,559 posts)
4. USA Today should be ashamed.
Wed Oct 10, 2018, 09:12 AM
Oct 2018

Utter journalistic malpractice at best. They have become complicit in perpetrating a fraud on the American public.

 

watoos

(7,142 posts)
5. Here we go again,
Wed Oct 10, 2018, 10:02 AM
Oct 2018

Why single out the USA Today? All of the corporate M$M is complicit.

Jesus, the NY Times, and sweet Judy Miller, printed a Dick Cheney mushroom cloud article as if it were her article. That was a big impetus that pushed us into the Iraq war.

The M$M is owned by corporate big wigs who don't give a shit about pre-existing conditions for little people, they have Cadillac health care plans that pays for everything.

kcr

(15,317 posts)
17. Who is "singling out" USA Today?
Wed Oct 10, 2018, 12:59 PM
Oct 2018

In fact, this is the first time I've noticed USA Today in particular called out, while The New York Times is constantly called out, especially here. The NYT is notorious. Your defense of USA Today is bizarre. Are people not supposed to call out news orgs?

 

bitterross

(4,066 posts)
7. USA Today - I ignore it every day.
Wed Oct 10, 2018, 10:06 AM
Oct 2018

You have to remember their old ad campaign to get it. It's a joke.

lark

(23,102 posts)
8. Boycott USA Today
Wed Oct 10, 2018, 10:13 AM
Oct 2018

I've been doing this for years. When I go to a hotel I ask them their options for papers and always pick something other than that RW rag. If that's all they deliver, I tell them do not leave one by my room, it offends me.

sandensea

(21,636 posts)
10. I remember when you used to see them in all the mid-price hotels.
Wed Oct 10, 2018, 10:55 AM
Oct 2018

You know: Days Inn, Best Western, etc.

When old man Bush was in office, it was how "quickly the economy was recovering" (all evidence to the contrary); then during the Clinton years it was always about some scandal, or supposed "friction" in the White House; with Dubya it was always something portraying him (and of course the wars) as "heroic" in some way; and Obama, about how "hapless" he was.

Propaganda 101: Frame the narrative with "impressions"

ZeroSomeBrains

(638 posts)
15. USA Today should have to apologize for this crap
Wed Oct 10, 2018, 11:32 AM
Oct 2018

With all the real issues going on in the world and what 45 has done and lied about thus far, giving him a free chance to publish said lies is reprehensible.

INdemo

(6,994 posts)
16. USA today is in the Ganett publishing family and
Wed Oct 10, 2018, 11:50 AM
Oct 2018

it along with several/maybe a hundred... other newspapers like the Indy Star,Ft. Wayne Journal Gazette are nothing more than Fox News in print.
Example we just had a debate between Joe Donnelly and Braun in Fort Wayne and the papers published the exact opposite of how the debate went giving credit to Mike Braun the weasel Republican

So with Faux News this is what liberals are up against and they have been our rivals for years.

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