FAKE NEWS EXPOSED: A Service of PoliticalChat.com

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Originally Posted by Chicks

As always, you completely missed the point. Whether the merger is “good” or “bad” isn’t the point at all. Donny campaigned against it, due to his hatred of the fact that CNN told the truth about his lies, incompetence, and unfitness for the presidency. No one in their right mind can argue they weren’t telling the truth. Sessions brought the case to please Donny. It was obviously a weak case, as the judge allowed the merger to proceed with no strings attached. Donny’s argument that it put too much power in the hands of too few is laughable. That’s exactly what Donny is all about!

Oh, I think I get the point. You're cheering for further consolidation and an increasingly consumer unfriendly internet / content industry just because, in this case, Trump gets poked in the eye.

No one in their right mind should be cheering for that result, even if it allows them to score some cheap points in a political forum. But of course, you're not in your right mind.

Hope you enjoy fewer choices and a fatter cable bill, though.

[Chicks]

Haven’t had cable in 30+ years, but thanks for your concern!

You’re as clueless as they come, ever loyal to your Dear Leader. Sad!

[Pio1980]

DJTs petty vengeance feuding aside, I'm not crazy about this consolidation of media delivery without constraints.

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Originally Posted by Pio1980

DJTs petty vengeance feuding aside, I'm not crazy about this consolidation of media delivery without constraints.

Well, there's at least one adult - level response. And we just found something we agree one.

Amazing.

[Chicks]

Seth MacFarlane
@SethMacFarlane
In other words, don’t think critically, don’t consult multiple news sources, and in general, don’t use your brain. Just blindly obey Fox News. This is fringe shit, and it’s business like this that makes me embarrassed to work for this company.

Brian Stelter
@brianstelter
Isn't this sad? Tonight @TuckerCarlson told his viewers not to believe ANYTHING they learn from his rivals: "If you're looking to understand what's actually happening in this country, always assume the opposite of whatever they're telling you on the big news stations."
1:08 PM · Jun 16, 2018

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Tucker Carlson: Same sort of sh!t Whell tries (unsuccessfully) to peddle around here.

[Chicks]

Instead of Trump’s propaganda, how about a nice ‘truth sandwich’?
By Margaret Sullivan

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifes...e99_story.html

Enter George Lakoff. An author, cognitive scientist and linguist who has long studied how propaganda works, he believes it’s long past time for the reality-based news media to stop kowtowing to the emperor.

“Trump needs the media, and the media help him by repeating what he says,” Lakoff said.

That would be okay under normal circumstances, he told me, but “this situation is not normal — you have a sustained attack on the democracy and the news media.”

Unlike those who insist that what the president says is news and therefore must be reported, Lakoff proposes a radical reimagining of how the news media reports on Trump.

Instead of treating the president’s every tweet and utterance — true or false — as newsworthy (and then perhaps fact-checking it later), Lakoff urges the use of what he calls a “truth sandwich.”

First, he says, get as close to the overall, big-picture truth as possible right away. (Thus the gist of the Trump-in-Singapore story: Little of substance was accomplished in the summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, despite the pageantry.) Then report what Trump is claiming about it: achievement of world peace. And then, in the same story or broadcast, fact-check his claims.

That’s the truth sandwich — reality, spin, reality — all in one tasty, democracy-nourishing meal.

Avoid retelling the lies. Avoid putting them in headlines, leads or tweets, he says. Because it is that very amplification that gives them power.

That’s how propaganda works on the brain: through repetition, even when part of that repetition is fact-checking.

[Pio1980]

Originally Posted by Chicks

Instead of Trump’s propaganda, how about a nice ‘truth sandwich’?
By Margaret Sullivan

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifes...e99_story.html

Enter George Lakoff. An author, cognitive scientist and linguist who has long studied how propaganda works, he believes it’s long past time for the reality-based news media to stop kowtowing to the emperor.

“Trump needs the media, and the media help him by repeating what he says,” Lakoff said.

That would be okay under normal circumstances, he told me, but “this situation is not normal — you have a sustained attack on the democracy and the news media.”

Unlike those who insist that what the president says is news and therefore must be reported, Lakoff proposes a radical reimagining of how the news media reports on Trump.

Instead of treating the president’s every tweet and utterance — true or false — as newsworthy (and then perhaps fact-checking it later), Lakoff urges the use of what he calls a “truth sandwich.”

First, he says, get as close to the overall, big-picture truth as possible right away. (Thus the gist of the Trump-in-Singapore story: Little of substance was accomplished in the summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, despite the pageantry.) Then report what Trump is claiming about it: achievement of world peace. And then, in the same story or broadcast, fact-check his claims.

That’s the truth sandwich — reality, spin, reality — all in one tasty, democracy-nourishing meal.

Avoid retelling the lies. Avoid putting them in headlines, leads or tweets, he says. Because it is that very amplification that gives them power.

That’s how propaganda works on the brain: through repetition, even when part of that repetition is fact-checking.

Or "fact sandwich", brilliant! Should go nicely with the WH koolaide cocktail.

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During the presidential campaign, National Enquirer executives sent digital copies of the tabloid’s articles and cover images related to Donald Trump and his political opponents to Trump’s attorney Michael Cohen in advance of publication, according to three people with knowledge of the matter — an unusual practice that speaks to the close relationship between Trump and David Pecker, chief executive of American Media Inc., the Enquirer’s parent company.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifes...067_story.html

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The Sinclair Broadcasting Group produced a must-air segment for all of their local news stations across the country that downplayed the family separations as “politically driven” by “liberals” and the “media.”

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewi...ly-separations

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Mueller blasts NYT and WaPo for false reporting. Sweet!

https://lawandcrime.com/awkward/its-...anaforts-lock/