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"Fake News" is old news.
Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2017 4:15 pm
by Nightshade
Circa 2009: 'Don't Pretend' Fox News Is a 'Legitimate News Organization' -Obama White House
Obama's White House, 2009: 'Don't Pretend' Fox News Is a 'Legitimate News Organization'
Donald Trump refused to take a question from CNN reporter Jim Acosta today, labeling Acosta's employer as "fake news." Since then, mainstream media and celebrities are hyperventilating over Trump as if he bears the same viciously totalitarian impulses as, say, Fidel Castro -- and that Trump is SCARY and GOING TO GET THEM.
As comforting as tweeting one's victimhood status to millions appears to be to today's left -- and as ironic as exercising one's free speech to millions via Twitter to claim the death of the First Amendment is to everyone else -- this reactionary response sure doesn't look good for the left in terms of ideological consistency.
https://pjmedia.com/trending/2017/01/11 ... epage=true
Re: "Fake News" is old news.
Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2017 4:20 pm
by callmeslick
please, link us to exactly who at Fox was prevented from asking a question at a major news conference. Otherwise, you might risk being seen as perpetuating the same false equivalency that got the nation into this mess.
Re: "Fake News" is old news.
Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2017 5:06 pm
by Grendel
Re: "Fake News" is old news.
Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2017 5:31 pm
by Tunnelcat
Yeah, Obama and Fox are not chummy at all.
Re: "Fake News" is old news.
Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2017 5:32 pm
by callmeslick
thanks, Grendel. From one of your links:
"That means Obama has called on each of the Big 3 networks at approximately twice the rate as FOX, although only slightly more on fellow cable network CNN." So, once again, we take a discrepancy, and no blackout of major press conferences of anything REMOTELY close to the pointed nature here, and never lying about the reason. More false equivalency, which is where disinformation breeds.
Re: "Fake News" is old news.
Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2017 12:25 pm
by Tunnelcat
Perhaps Obama didn't like talking to a network who's personalities or managers tend to push a little sexual harassment upon their female employees? So THAT's why Fox News likes all those blonde bombshells. Internal entertainment.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/bus ... /96399714/
Re: "Fake News" is old news.
Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2017 7:30 pm
by Nightshade
Re: "Fake News" is old news.
Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2017 11:18 pm
by Top Gun
Yes, God forbid journalists be properly vetted and held to actual editorial standards, instead of being random schmucks spewing whatecer bull★■◆● crosses their mind!
Re: "Fake News" is old news.
Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2017 1:19 am
by Ferno
Just came back to say.. what the actual ★■◆●.
Re: "Fake News" is old news.
Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2017 1:06 pm
by Tunnelcat
Nightshade wrote:
Like Fox News hasn't peddled some trash in the past, especially if it dealt with either President Obama or Muslims.
http://www.forwardprogressives.com/fox- ... ent-obama/
http://www.salon.com/2011/03/14/fox_nat ... dded_bras/
Ferno wrote:Just came back to say.. what the actual ★■◆●.
Welcome back and welcome to to new and wild normal in this place since Trump was elected. It's only going to get worse.
Re: "Fake News" is old news.
Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2017 1:09 pm
by woodchip
TC, I don't think anyone here has said Fox News is the epitome of factual reporting.
Re: "Fake News" is old news.
Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2017 1:18 pm
by Tunnelcat
They still call themselves "Fair and Balanced". They haven't been that ever since they were founded.