Another media lie busted! Claims that the NRA banned guns for Presidents and VP Pence'speech

[tinydancer]

How stupid are the media these days? They're getting busted at every turn for FAKE NEWS. Then they whine about being labeled fake news. Sheesh.

It's the Secret Service that makes the security arrangements.

Secret Service: Guns banned from Trump's NRA speech

By Kevin Liptak, CNN White House Producer



Updated 4:41 PM ET, Thu April 27, 2017


Secret Service: Guns banned from Trump's NRA speech - CNNPolitics

Here's the caught out liars.

"Despite the fact that Politico’s own reporting makes clear that the Secret Service will be in charge of security (and therefore the ones enacting the firearm ban), the first paragraph nonetheless misleads the reader into believing that the NRA is the group forbidding any weapons.

USA Today had a similar article entitled “NRA draws fire for banning guns at event featuring Vice President Mike Pence.”


A number of local outlets also made the same mistake, including St Louis’ KSDK, Delaware Online, The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, NOLA.com, and a number of others.

The lie also made its way to cable news Monday morning, with MSNBC host Stephanie Ruhle who thought she was cleverly pointing out the NRA’s “serious hypocrisy” by not allowing guns into the event area while Pence was speaking.

“Gun control advocates are claiming some serious hypocrisy, pointing to the NRA’s long history of arguing that allowing guns in public spaces make people safer,” she said.

Unfortunately, it seems that none of her producers bothered fact checking the assertion."

Fake News: All The Publications That Got A Basic Fact Wrong About Pence’s Speech

 

[The Professor]

The MSM got hoodwinked when one of the “experts” they quoted didn't even exist. Here are portions of the exposing article:

From fake news to fake experts: MSM discover oft-cited 'student loan reporter' was made up

Drew Cloud, described as the founder of the Student Loan Report and a journalist who "wanted to funnel his creative energy into an independent, authoritative news outlet," has been quoted in stories that appeared on CNBC, Fox News, the Washington Post, the Boston Globe and in other media.

On Tuesday, the Chronicle published a damning report that finally revealed Cloud was "a fiction, the invention of a student-loan refinancing company" all along. It also pointed out that the fictional character "had corresponded at length with many journalists, pitching them stories and offering email interviews, many of which were published."

The flop has already been used by some of the unaffected outlets to attack the credibility of media narratives altogether. "It appears Drew Cloud's stories on student debt were as truthful as the Russian dossier and Russian collusion story itself," conservative outlet American Thinker wrote.

With the highly-cited Mr. Cloud turning out to be a ruse, one can only wonder how many of the anonymous media sources with "close knowledge of the matter" are actually real.

From fake news to fake experts: MSM discover oft-cited 'student loan reporter' was made up

 

[tinydancer]

The MSM got hoodwinked when one of the “experts” they quoted didn't even exist. Here are portions of the exposing article:

From fake news to fake experts: MSM discover oft-cited 'student loan reporter' was made up

Drew Cloud, described as the founder of the Student Loan Report and a journalist who "wanted to funnel his creative energy into an independent, authoritative news outlet," has been quoted in stories that appeared on CNBC, Fox News, the Washington Post, the Boston Globe and in other media.

On Tuesday, the Chronicle published a damning report that finally revealed Cloud was "a fiction, the invention of a student-loan refinancing company" all along. It also pointed out that the fictional character "had corresponded at length with many journalists, pitching them stories and offering email interviews, many of which were published."

The flop has already been used by some of the unaffected outlets to attack the credibility of media narratives altogether. "It appears Drew Cloud's stories on student debt were as truthful as the Russian dossier and Russian collusion story itself," conservative outlet American Thinker wrote.

With the highly-cited Mr. Cloud turning out to be a ruse, one can only wonder how many of the anonymous media sources with "close knowledge of the matter" are actually real.

From fake news to fake experts: MSM discover oft-cited 'student loan reporter' was made up

My ultimate fave "fake source" is the always quoted Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

It's one guy in Britain who is a tailor who takes phone calls on what's going on in Syria.............................drum roll.........................from anti Assad factions.