Welcome, Guest: Register On Nairaland / LOGIN! / Trending / Recent / NewStats: 3,152,780 members, 7,817,223 topics. Date: Saturday, 04 May 2024 at 08:23 AM |
Nairaland Forum / Nairaland / General / Politics / Foreign Affairs / Mainstream Media Errors In The Trump Era: Your Catalogue Of Media Bias Articles (822 Views)
Mainstream Media Screams In Pain As Trump Becomes President - FOX NEWS / Melania Trump's Stunning Dress To The Trump Pre-inauguration Dinner / Trump’s Era: Ben Carson Pulls Out Of Prospective Cabinet (2) (3) (4)
Mainstream Media Errors In The Trump Era: Your Catalogue Of Media Bias Articles by OLAADEGBU(m): 11:57pm On Feb 19, 2017 |
Mainstream media errors in the Trump era: Your catalogue of the media's bias-fueled failure-fest To be continued...(Read the link for details). |
Re: Mainstream Media Errors In The Trump Era: Your Catalogue Of Media Bias Articles by paschu: 1:13am On Feb 22, 2017 |
Keep it comng Bro. You are so on point. But the hypocritical, grossly hateful and terribly intolerant bunch of lefties will never learn. 1 Like |
Re: Mainstream Media Errors In The Trump Era: Your Catalogue Of Media Bias Articles by OLAADEGBU(m): 2:09am On Feb 22, 2017 |
paschu: Even when the truth hits the lefties in the face they will keep on pushing the propaganda against President Trump. |
Re: Mainstream Media Errors In The Trump Era: Your Catalogue Of Media Bias Articles by OLAADEGBU(m): 10:19am On Mar 27, 2017 |
OLAADEGBU: Feb. 17: Trump Caught the Bug The Claim: President Trump's erratic behaviour suggests he's suffering from a serious disease he caught from all that sex he had in the 1980s. The Source: The New Republic. The Facts: The article is a work of 100 percent speculation. The notion that Trump suffers from neurosyphilis is based entirely on the author's personal musings. This particularly ugly bit of conspiracy mongering is an op-ed, and it's not the same thing as a botched news report. Nevertheless, this article has a special place on this list due to the fact the New Republic and the author, Steven Beutler, are careful to emphasize his credentials as a doctor, and his background in treating infectious diseases. The neurosyphilis theory is presented as a bit more than the usual op-ed griping. It's presented as a serious discussion, from a serious physician. The author practically dares his readers to question his authority on the issue. The unspoken point of having Beutler write the article is to give the totally unfounded conspiracy an air of legitimacy. For that, this op-ed ends up on this list of shoddy and unprofessional post-inauguration media bungles. Feb. 16: Eavesdropping The Claim: Trump allowed Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg to eavesdrop on his calls in January to Lockheed Martin. The Source: ProPublica's Michael Grabell. The Facts: The report cited by Grabell said no such thing. Rather, the Bloomberg News story, titled "Trump's F-35 Calls Came With a Surprise: Rival CEO Was Listening," reported Trump allowed Muilenburg to sit in on calls made to the Air Force general who manages the Lockheed Martin Corp. F-35 jet. Grabell eventually deleted his initial tweet, and he noted his mistake. "I tweeted a story with incorrect reading earlier. I was working and didn't note the [number] of [re-tweets]," he said. "Fine, it's a correction my original tweet was wrong. Read the story." Before he deleted his incorrect interpretation of the Bloomberg story, it had more than 600 shares. As of this writing, his clarification has been re-tweeted 60 times. |
Re: Mainstream Media Errors In The Trump Era: Your Catalogue Of Media Bias Articles by OLAADEGBU(m): 3:42pm On Mar 31, 2017 |
OLAADEGBU: Feb. 14: NYT Duped The Claim: Following Michael Flynn's resignation on Feb. 13 as the president's national security adviser, the retired U.S. Army Lieutenant General remarked on Twitter, "While I accept full responsibility for my actions, I feel it is unfair that I have been made the sole scapegoat for what happened." "But if a scapegoat is what's needed for this Administration to continue to take this great nation forward, I am proud to do my duty," the general supposedly added. The Source: The New York Times, Newsmax. The Facts: Flynn said no such thing on social media. The Times was duped by a parody Twitter account. Flynn temporarily deleted his personal account several weeks prior to his resignation. Feb. 14: One Hell of a Buried Lede The Claim: "Trump Campaign Aides Had Repeated Contacts With Russian Intelligence." The Source: The New York Times. The Facts: This entry is slightly different from most of the others on this list. The Times reported Trump's people communicated with Russian intelligence officials at around the same time hackers were publishing personal email stolen from of Democratic National Committee staffers and Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman, John Podesta. By all accounts this appears to be a legitimate story, and it raises serious questions about the Russians and the 2016 election. However, the issue with this particular Times report is that there is a crucial bit of information that the paper doesn't mention until after the reader has already been introduced to the idea of Trump/Russian collusion. The story opens with these two paragraphs: Phone records and intercepted calls show that members of Donald J. Trump's 2016 presidential campaign and other Trump associates had repeated contacts with senior Russian intelligence officials in the year before the election, according to four current and former American officials. American law enforcement and intelligence agencies intercepted the communications around the same time they were discovering evidence that Russia was trying to disrupt the presidential election by hacking into the Democratic National Committee, three of the officials said. The intelligence agencies then sought to learn whether the Trump campaign was colluding with the Russians on the hacking or other efforts to influence the election. It doesn't look good for Trump. The report's headline alone leads readers to suspect a disturbing partnership between the president's people and the Russians. But buried at the third paragraph in the Times report is a crucial detail: "The officials interviewed in recent weeks said that, so far, they had seen no evidence of such cooperation." Oh. That's an important piece of information, and it should have been included in the story's first paragraph. |
Re: Mainstream Media Errors In The Trump Era: Your Catalogue Of Media Bias Articles by OLAADEGBU(m): 6:31pm On Aug 30, 2017 |
The fake news media have been making blunders before Trump announced his campaign for presidency. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahkMA6JPOHU |
(1) (Reply)
Here's How Many Millions Barack Obama Could Earn As A Private Citizen / Mugabe: "The Absence Of Islam In Zimbabwe Is The Reason We Have Peace!! / Catalans Occupy Polling Stations Ahead Of Referendum
(Go Up)
Sections: politics (1) business autos (1) jobs (1) career education (1) romance computers phones travel sports fashion health religion celebs tv-movies music-radio literature webmasters programming techmarket Links: (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) Nairaland - Copyright © 2005 - 2024 Oluwaseun Osewa. All rights reserved. See How To Advertise. 49 |