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Why isn’t there a organization with lawyers on board to stand up to the fake media for all the lying stories & sue them for each fake news they report & bring a stop to all the fake media so we can start to trust our news papers?
sure we have a first amendment & a right to say whatever we want but not if it goes against people or things that are untrue
Suing them would be counter-productive. That would merely provide them with more publicity, which is what they want in the first place.
It’s all about money. The media is funded by advertisers, and the advertisers are funded by consumers who are perceived to buy products and services based on the advertisements.
People mistake “fake news” vs “Opinion News” . Most news is Opinion based and not fake
The problem is the term “fake media”. Most of the time, the issue and report may be true but the analysis is biased. The media has forgotten that it is there to report the news, not analyze it for us.
If we were to sue those issuing “fake news” than we would probably begin in the Oval Office and adjoining Press Room downstairs in the East Wing. For example, after Trumpkopf Jr. issues emails explicitly stating that the purpose of the proposed meeting was to obtain “dirt’ on HRC, and Trumpkopf Jr. (no mention whatsoever of yasomim) goes on Hannity and says in retrospect such an opposition research kumzits with the Russians was bad idea, and then early Yesterday AM the Trumpkopf -in-Chief Tweets that the meeting with the Russians on “opposition research” was just politics as usual, SEAN SPICER gives his daily press briefing off-camera where he says the only purpose of the meeting was to discuss U.S. policies that had resulted in a crackdown on adoption of Russian orphans. His obvious lie or misstatement (assuming he has been on Mars the prior week) was so breathtaking none of the reporters present even bothered to follow up. Its this daily non-stop barrage of mindless and constantly changing reality that would be the subject of the first legal action to stop “fake” news at its source. While one might attribute some of this confusion to The Trumpkopf’s inability to articulate a complete English sentence, sadly, the same cannot be said of his Staff. Sadly, the Dems have their own core of mindless political hacks calling such meetings “treason” and other nareshkeit but in truth, none compare to the current bunch of clowns at 1600 Pennsylvania ave.
Outlets such as the NYTIimes, WPost, CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS, PBS and NPR are, effectively, Democrat Party house organs and mouthpieces. Every story and article they publish is throughly designed to cast the Democrats as saviors and heroes and cast Republicans as villans and scrooges. They each use outright falsehoods many times every day to accomplish this goal.
Call it whatever you want. But that is what’s happening.
GadolH: I never realized you were actually Rachel Maddow! or maybe Jim Acosta.
The Onion is fake news. CNN is not.
The Clinton News Network is a Democrat Party house organ.
The Republicans also have one.
The opening poster clearly has no understanding of the First Amendment. Period. He/she clearly never studied it in school at any level, nor in his/her adult life. It is a shame that so many Americans have so little understanding of the meaning of their/our freedoms.
The Republicans also have one.
The Democrats have many dozens.
Free country. Sell whatever people want to buy.
War??
For those who didn’t understand RebYidd23’s comment:
From Wiki:
The Onion’s articles cover current events, both real and fictional…….The publication’s humor often depends on presenting mundane, everyday events as newsworthy, surreal, or alarming (such as “Rotation of Earth Throws Entire North American Continent into Darkness”).1. The “Onion” is satire. It is comedy. It is NOT trying to be news. It is trying to be humor. Calling it fake news would be like calling “Star Trek” fake history.
2. There is no indication of any news sources deliberately lying, but more of failing to critically examine rumors and hearsay that while being of dubious reliability tend to support one’s political positions. This reflects of serious decline in journalistic standards over the last century, as journalistgs who once dilligently took a skeptical approach to anything and everything, now see their role as seeking out “facts” that support an ideological position. While the news sections of a few sources (the “Wall Street Journal”, excluding its editorial sections) is one, most include the AP (a favorite of YWN), and most leading newspaper and networks, have become less concerned with accuracy and fact checking than in presenting arguments supporting an ideological position.
The Trumpkopf-in-Chief contradicts himself mid-sentence and claims he never said what we just heard him say. He tweets claims even his own staff ridicule off camera. His talking head surrogates on TV try to excuse his apparent detachment from reality with claims that he is “not a typical politicians”, “is talking in allegorical terms”, speaks in codewords that only other Trumpkopfs can understand, etc. In short, when the President makes CNN look like the paradigm of accuracy and consistency, we should look out on Eastern Parkway and see if the ususal suspects running up and down the street with yellow flags, are instead riding down the median strip on a white donkey (or elephant to avoid partisanship).
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