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The media has officially lost its damn mind

onthebottom

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Spot on

The media has officially lost its damn mind

Remember the dunking-kid meme from a couple of years ago? Little kid runs up to his tiny basketball hoop, dunks the ball, turns around to flex and holler. Meanwhile he doesn’t see that the whole backboard is wobbling and about to collapse on his head. When it does, he looks confused.

Congrats, New York Times! And Politico. And CNN. You’re all the Dunking Kids. You keep throwing down on the Trump administration. The backboard of truth keeps falling on your head. The rest of us laugh.

The New York Times just issued its most spectacular correction since my personal favorite, from Nov. 7, 2012: “An earlier version of this article misspelled the singer’s surname in a number of places. He is Bruce Springsteen, not Springstein.”

This Sunday’s correction cut the legs out from under its big Saturday scoop about a supposed new sex scandal about Brett Kavanaugh involving a woman who supposedly had Kavanaugh’s penis shoved into her hand when they were both at Yale. The Times’ gobsmacking correction noted that in the book from which its Saturday report was derived, “the female student declined to be interviewed and friends say that she does not recall the incident. That information has been added to the article.”

Backboard of truth meets skull.

This capped off a week in which the Times had to delete a tweet praising Mao Zedong, one of history’s greatest mass murderers, as “one of history’s great revolutionary figures” and another tweet saying that what happened on 9/11 was that “airplanes took aim and brought down the World Trade Center.” Times editors doubtless thought that mentioning radical Islamists were the ones who aimed those airplanes would play into Trump’s hands.

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Meanwhile, Politico was sticking with a bonkers attempt to make a scandal out of Air Force members paying a cheap $130 a night to stay at a Trump resort in Scotland called Turnberry while they were refueling their planes at a nearby airport Trump does not own or profit from.

Politico solemnly reported that “up to 6 percent” of Air Force members had stayed at the Trump property while refueling at the airport. So the resort is affordable, service members have been staying there since the Obama years and at least 94 percent of those staying in the area stay at some other hotel. Politico tried to frame this as a violation of the Emoluments Clause that forbids presidents from cashing in on their position while in office. That doesn’t pass the laugh test.

Meanwhile, MSNBC gave airtime to Jason Johnson, a journalism professor from Morgan State, who made the following vicious, defamatory and utterly bonkers statement about Justice Kavanaugh: “I’ve never heard of a guy who is a one-time rapist. I’ve never heard of a one-time sexual assaulter. I grew up with guys like this. He’s from around this area, right? He is the fifth guy in a gang rape. He’s the guy who comes in after he is drunk because everybody else encourages him and he can get away with it. He’s been pretty much covered his entire life. And now he’s on the Supreme Court.”

Just a few days earlier, CNN issued a report on the circumstances around an American spy being taken out of Russia that was so wrong, the Times felt moved to contradict it: The decision to extract the spy was made while Obama was president, the Times reported, yet CNN blamed Trump for endangering the agent and forcing his extraction.

This isn’t just a story of media bias. It’s a story of utter unbe-frickin’-lievable obliviousness by the media. CNN doesn’t bother putting a fig leaf on anything anymore: A glance at CNN’s homepage on any given day is like looking at an assortment of Democratic Party press releases.

Any news that might be happening that can’t be weaponized against Trump is of little interest. Any news that might make Trump or anyone on the right look bad is eagerly pushed through, ordinary standards of fairness and checking be damned.

The media think Trump’s sometimes overblown attacks on them are making it more vital than ever. But what’s really happening is that the media is beclowning itself trying to end Trump. One recent survey found 95 percent of Americans saying they were troubled by the current state of the media, and two-thirds think journalistic ethics will get worse during the election season. Ow, media. Backboard, head.
 

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So has the N Y Post figured out what collective noun it wants to be included in, now that 'the [rest of the] media' has lost its mind? Or is their article just more gaga? Like the stuff they're complaining about.

Interesting the writer lets "Trump's sometimes overblown attacks" go by in an aside, as if the Father of the Nation's addiction to untruthful, hyperbolic belligerence on all fronts had nothing to do with the reports about him, or about the Nation that keeps hoping he'll be the Leader the election was supposed to give them.

It's awful hard to do thoughtful, balanced, objective, researched reporting from an insane asylum where the patients and ever-changing staff all wear the same scrubs and even the ones who know what's going on, don't tell the truth about it. And that's an 'ordinary' Presidency, like the Bush's or Obama's, or Reagan's.
 

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So has the N Y Post figured out what collective noun it wants to be included in, now that 'the [rest of the] media' has lost its mind? Or is their article just more gaga? Like the stuff they're complaining about.

Interesting the writer lets "Trump's sometimes overblown attacks" go by in an aside, as if the Father of the Nation's addiction to untruthful, hyperbolic belligerence on all fronts had nothing to do with the reports about him, or about the Nation that keeps hoping he'll be the Leader the election was supposed to give them.

It's awful hard to do thoughtful, balanced, objective, researched reporting from an insane asylum where the patients and ever-changing staff all wear the same scrubs and even the ones who know what's going on, don't tell the truth about it. And that's an 'ordinary' Presidency, like the Bush's or Obama's, or Reagan's.
That’s an incredibly weak retort.

Trump was elected and is accountable, the Media is neither.

Editors pulling key data out of articles (the most recent Kavanuagh debacle) or getting time periods wrong (CIA agent being pulled) show a clear, sustained and pathetic bias by these news organizations.
 

oldjones

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That’s an incredibly weak retort.

Trump was elected and is accountable, the Media is neither.

Editors pulling key data out of articles (the most recent Kavanuagh debacle) or getting time periods wrong (CIA agent being pulled) show a clear, sustained and pathetic bias by these news organizations.
If they're getting the eyeballs and pleasing their shareholders they're doing their job. Just like the Post.

Trump is accountable only at election time, Thanks to the 22d Amendment that's only once, and hopefully he's gone soon after. The media is accountable with every edition they print or broadcast, several times a day. The ad dollars that keep them alive are short-term and can disappear faster than they can get their retractions typed. But any media that actually has serious reach — the MSM ones the alt-media sneer at, but rely on rather than do reporting themselves — like the Post know that accuracy is their stock-in-trade, and they're good at the follow-ups and taking responsibility.

Trump's been untruthful/wrong/mistaken/misinformed almost daily, most recently with his infantile map. Has he ever admitted any of it? Has he ever apologized for it? 'Course not. The only 'job' he ever had was pretending to be a business magnatye on 'reality'-TV. When I was in that biz, we called it lying for money. His respect for his own word was perfectly summed up by his proud claim that cheating those who had sold him their goods and services out of the money he owed them, "made him smart".

Trump accountable? Not if there's a single lawyer left alive he can hire.

Has he even settled his taxes yet? Surely an accountable business person's books cannot be in that much disarray?
 

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The media is beholden to advertising dollars, that's why they can't be trusted, they "report" on the sensational, not the truth. I don't care if they are right or left, they are all corrupt.
 

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That’s an incredibly weak retort.

Trump was elected and is accountable, the Media is neither.

Editors pulling key data out of articles (the most recent Kavanuagh debacle) or getting time periods wrong (CIA agent being pulled) show a clear, sustained and pathetic bias by these news organizations.
Trump - 12,000 lies and zero corrections
Mainstream media - occasional errors publicly corrected

And you think Trump is better?
 

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Trump's been untruthful/wrong/mistaken/misinformed almost daily, most recently with his infantile map. Has he ever admitted any of it? Has he ever apologized for it? 'Course not.
But interesting question is, why is this the case.

Answer: those suffering from Trump Devotee Syndrome, more commonly TDS, accept everything he does no matter what. They never hold him accountable for anything. Not only that, they make alternative facts, or re-interpret what he really meant to say, or deflect the discussion, or play what if, or say people knew what he was like beforehand and on and on and on to make sure they never have to say that their Saviour was wrong.

That is why he is never held accountable. He knows the TDSers will never admit any wrongdoing.
 

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But interesting question is, why is this the case.

Answer: those suffering from Trump Devotee Syndrome, more commonly TDS, accept everything he does no matter what. They never hold him accountable for anything. Not only that, they make alternative facts, or re-interpret what he really meant to say, or deflect the discussion, or play what if, or say people knew what he was like beforehand and on and on and on to make sure they never have to say that their Saviour was wrong.

That is why he is never held accountable. He knows the TDSers will never admit any wrongdoing.
It is really somewhat worse than that. When it comes to the Chosen One those suffering from HUTA syndrome demand a level of proof that could never be satisfied in the real world and refuse to hold him to account for anything at all. the DOJ, AG and the Senate have been completely co-opted by him and become wholly owned subsidiaries of Trump Inc. Anywhere outside of the bizzarro world members of the GOP would be shocked.
 

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They have gone from journalism to activism.
 

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It is really somewhat worse than that. When it comes to the Chosen One those suffering from HUTA syndrome demand a level of proof that could never be satisfied in the real world and refuse to hold him to account for anything at all. the DOJ, AG and the Senate have been completely co-opted by him and become wholly owned subsidiaries of Trump Inc. Anywhere outside of the bizzarro world members of the GOP would be shocked.
Trump hates the truth. Plain and simple. He uses his office and status to quell the facts, in order to please his base. That is why this whole "Fake media" garbage from his mouth has been blown out of proportions. The only ones buying this, myth are his cult followers!!
 

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It is really somewhat worse than that. When it comes to the Chosen One those suffering from HUTA syndrome demand a level of proof that could never be satisfied in the real world and refuse to hold him to account for anything at all. the DOJ, AG and the Senate have been completely co-opted by him and become wholly owned subsidiaries of Trump Inc. Anywhere outside of the bizzarro world members of the GOP would be shocked.
Very true. The repugnicans are complicit in propping him up. "Power over democracy" should be their mantra.
 

toguy5252

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Trump hates the truth. Plain and simple. He uses his office and status to quell the facts, in order to please his base. That is why this whole "Fake media" garbage from his mouth has been blown out of proportions. The only ones buying this, myth are his cult followers!!
The "fake news" thing is the beginning of the slippery slope toward fascism. The critical element being the control of facts. The only truth or the only facts you can believe are those which are spoken by the Chosen One, objective facts and reality be damned. and as he continues to take power which under the US Constitution belongs to the congress and the GOP senate enable him irreparable harms is being done to US democracy and the Trumpanistas just sit back and watch it happen. As a Canadian observer it is both fascinating and quite sad.
 

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The enablement of openly and consistently biased reporting here is nauseating.
 

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The "fake news" thing is the beginning of the slippery slope toward fascism. The critical element being the control of facts. The only truth or the only facts you can believe are those which are spoken by the Chosen One, objective facts and reality be damned. and as he continues to take power which under the US Constitution belongs to the congress and the GOP senate enable him irreparable harms is being done to US democracy and the Trumpanistas just sit back and watch it happen. As a Canadian observer it is both fascinating and quite sad.
As opposed to the now steady decline into Ogliarchy?
 

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The media is simply the PR arm of the deep state, since we are in hyperbole mode....
 
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