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50 Media Mistakes in the Trump Era: The Definitive List (Sharyl Attkisson)
We the media have “fact-checked” President Trump like we have fact-checked no other human being on the planet—and he’s certainly given us plenty to write about. That’s probably why it’s so easy to find lists enumerating and examining his mistakes, missteps and “lies.”But as self-appointed arbiters of truth, we’ve largely excused our own unprecedented string of fact-challenged reporting. The truth is, formerly well-respected, top news organizations are making repeat, unforced errors in numbers that were unheard of just a couple of years ago.
Our repeat mistakes involve declaring that Trump’s claims are “lies” when they are matters of opinion, or when the truth between conflicting sources is unknowable; taking Trump’s statements and events out of context; reporting secondhand accounts against Trump without attribution as if they’re established fact; relying on untruthful, conflicted sources; and presenting reporter opinions in news stories—without labeling them as opinions. [Read More]
Gayle King Decries ‘Inhumane’ Family Separations: ‘The Statue of Liberty Is Weeping’ (Daily Beast)
Reporting from a McAllen, Texas, border detention center on Monday, CBS This Morning’s Gayle King was clearly affected by the stories she was hearing from parents who have had their children ripped away from them due to the Trump administration’s “zero-tolerance” policy for undocumented immigrants.
King explained that not only are children being separated from their parents, but siblings are also being separated from each other. “It’s just a terrible, terrible situation,” she said on CBS. “It goes against everything that we in this country believe in, starting with the Statue of Liberty.” [Read More]
Remembering WMAL Legend Frank Harden 1922-2018 (WMAL)
Frank Harden, one-half of the greatest radio team the Nation’s Capital has ever seen, died Friday at his home in Chevy Chase. He was 95.
Together with his on-air partner, Jackson Weaver, Harden created Harden and Weaver, a ratings and revenue-generating juggernaut of a morning show that drove WMAL to the top of Washington’s radio business for more than three decades.
From the show’s inception in 1960 until Jackson Weaver’s death in 1992, Harden played amiable straight man to Weaver’s jocular cast of characters, most notably, “the Senator,” who with pinpoint accuracy poked friendly fun at the bureaucracy of Washington while introducing the daily 7:25 am morning march. Yes, WMAL did play a daily march – and for many years, a 6:55 am hymn as well! [Read More]
NY Times issues major correction in hit piece targeting EPA Pruitt’s daughter (Washington Times)
The long knives (and brass knuckles) are clearly out for EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt. We wrote weeks ago about the organized Left’s attacks on President Trump’s most effective and influential cabinet secretary. His efforts in rolling back job-killing regulations have been a prime force in driving the Trump economy and the media and Democrats can’t stand it.
Through all of the attacks, smears and innuendos Pruitt has persevered and not gone shrinking into the night. In the rough and tumble world of the DC Swamp, Pruitt isn’t playing by the regular rules. When hit pieces are published with half-truths and innuendo dressed up as “scandals” that aren’t really scandals at all, the “where there’s smoke there’s fire” attitude dictates that the target of the slime must acquiesce and resign. That’s just what’s expected.
But Pruitt won’t go. He has work to do and he’s going to do it. So now, they’re going after his family. [Read More]
Horowitz, FBI boss Christopher Wray face Senate grilling on bombshell report (Fox News)
FBI Director Christopher Wray and Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz are expected to be the centers of attention Monday when they testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Horowitz’s bombshell report on the FBI’s investigation of Hillary Clinton’s personal email server.
Horowitz’s report, released Thursday, singled out then-FBI Director James Comey for harsh criticism and referred five other bureau employees for potential disciplinary action.
Most notably, Horowitz found that anti-Trump text messages between FBI agent Peter Strzok and FBI attorney Lisa Page “potentially indicated or created the appearance that investigative decisions were impacted by bias or improper considerations.” [Read More]
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