Newspaper Will Sue over "fake news" Slur

[ZZ PUPPS]

Nope. He's just exercising his free speech to express his opinion.

Izzzzzzat right.

How then does that differ with the reference in the video in post 2?

Or does it?

Pupps has not viewed your video since it will be nothing more than propaganda tripe.

 

[Spare_change]

Ah now we have snowflake newspapers too.

Nah, this is just America standing up to the fascist crap you guys support like good little cult followers. Suppressing and neutralizing the press is what authoritarian fascist do, or at least try to do. And that isn't just hollow name calling, it's verified and accepted history.

What ridiculous exaggeration of reality.

No one proposes to "suppress and neutralize the press". Rather, we want to hold them to a standard of honesty in reporting. I know that sounds like a radical idea to the left, who have owned the press for the past 8 years, but we'd like to give it a try.

 

[Spare_change]

Defending itself is a just thing for the newspaper. The decision will be informative.

I agree --- though I don't think the left is gonna like it.

 

[Pogo]

How does calling them fake suppress them?

Perhaps you missed this line in the OP:

"The greatest asset of any newspaper or any news source is its credibility"
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Is that not the case? Does this "newspaper" have any credibility?

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What's that? Oh that's just a reminder of what "fake news" actually is.

It's really about shutting up any criticisms, period.

Right on, it's exactly about that. And when you equate a factual report --- the Senator cancelled a hearing --- with "Time Travelers are Changing Our History" ---- you're changing our history. By covering it up.

From post 2 in another thread (qv here):

>> As soon as he encountered political setbacks that after this week's scandal in which he was forced to dismiss his security adviser Michael Flynn, he responded with loud rage against the media, to deceive their followers to believe that what is reported about him is simply not true. During the presidential election last year, we saw constant example of this. As soon Trump's poll numbers plummeting, and he ended up in an unusually damaging scandal, he began to devote large parts of their campaign speech to criticize and mock journalists on the spot. Toward the end he began to encourage the audience in place to harass journalists. Several of the American reporters who followed his election campaign full time forced to hire bodyguards to ensure safety during campaign trips, because they received so many death threats by Trump's followers.

As president, Trump has not mitigated these attacks, but on the contrary ratchets up the pitch. He has consistently started talking about serious mass media as "fake news" and in press conferences, he refers to any negative news report about him as "fake". ...

This weekend Trump did a mass mailing to millions of supporters urging them not to believe anything they see in the mainstream media. His email began with the line: "You know we can not trust the media to report any of what I achieve."

It is not uncommon for presidents have a problematic relationship with the news media, but no president, not even Richard Nixon, has so consistently sought to undermine the freedom of the press in the United States. <<​

 

[Camp]

Nah, this is just America standing up to the fascist crap you guys support like good little cult followers. Suppressing and neutralizing the press is what authoritarian fascist do, or at least try to do. And that isn't just hollow name calling, it's verified and accepted history.

Yes, when people make up shit, we shouldn't call it fake. Just believe it.
Goddamn, what an idiot.

Wrong and mistaken news is easy to prove. Competitive news sources are more than happy to promote the wrong and mistaken news promoted by competitors. The courts are also a viable source for combating wrong and mistaken, or fake news.

The blanket assertion that the media promotes fake news is a propaganda method that has been used by authoritarian fascist regimes since Mussolini and Goebbels.

America has always dealt with the issue of wrong and mistaken news in its own way. Suddenly in the Trump era, an era of having a President that is a serial pathological liar, does the need to promote the fascist methods of suppressing and neutralizing news arise.

Trump lies a lot, but so does the media. I mean, seriously. You have to be one blind sumbitch not see it. Its EVERYWHERE

It is the public's job, with the help of free speech to expose merchants of fraudulent news, not the governments. The government has no business interfering with the free press.

You do realize that the judiciary is part of government don't you?

That is one of the methods used to address the problems with a faulty press. The other one is to address the problem in alternate news avenues. The method of simply demonizing a media source is what makes the method being used by the right is what makes the current method fascist.

 

[Pogo]

Ah now we have snowflake newspapers too.

Nah, this is just America standing up to the fascist crap you guys support like good little cult followers. Suppressing and neutralizing the press is what authoritarian fascist do, or at least try to do. And that isn't just hollow name calling, it's verified and accepted history.

What ridiculous exaggeration of reality.

No one proposes to "suppress and neutralize the press". Rather, we want to hold them to a standard of honesty in reporting. I know that sounds like a radical idea to the left, who have owned the press for the past 8 years, but we'd like to give it a try.

Once AGAIN ---- DID this state senator cancel his hearing --- or did he not?

The newspaper says he did. And he did not dispute that. So what do you know that somehow neither of them knows?

 

[Spare_change]

Ah now we have snowflake newspapers too.

Nah, this is just America standing up to the fascist crap you guys support like good little cult followers. Suppressing and neutralizing the press is what authoritarian fascist do, or at least try to do. And that isn't just hollow name calling, it's verified and accepted history.

What ridiculous exaggeration of reality.

No one proposes to "suppress and neutralize the press". Rather, we want to hold them to a standard of honesty in reporting. I know that sounds like a radical idea to the left, who have owned the press for the past 8 years, but we'd like to give it a try.

Once AGAIN ---- DID this state senator cancel his hearing --- or did he not?

The newspaper says he did. And he did not dispute that. So what do you know that somehow neither of them knows?

i just happen to read that paper ----- it's local. It is a liberal biased piece of garbage who wouldn't know the truth if it slapped them in the face with a dead fish. It caters to the liberal idiots from the University Colorado-Boulder, that hot bed of progressive stupidity.

 

[Pogo]

Ah now we have snowflake newspapers too.

Nah, this is just America standing up to the fascist crap you guys support like good little cult followers. Suppressing and neutralizing the press is what authoritarian fascist do, or at least try to do. And that isn't just hollow name calling, it's verified and accepted history.

What ridiculous exaggeration of reality.

No one proposes to "suppress and neutralize the press". Rather, we want to hold them to a standard of honesty in reporting. I know that sounds like a radical idea to the left, who have owned the press for the past 8 years, but we'd like to give it a try.

Once AGAIN ---- DID this state senator cancel his hearing --- or did he not?

The newspaper says he did. And he did not dispute that. So what do you know that somehow neither of them knows?

i just happen to read that paper ----- it's local. It is a liberal biased piece of garbage who wouldn't know the truth if it slapped them in the face with a dead fish. It caters to the liberal idiots from the University Colorado-Boulder, that hot bed of progressive stupidity.

Once AGAIN ---- DID this state senator cancel his hearing --- or did he not?

Is the question some kind of mystery? Do you understand that the question is "are the facts wrong" -- it is not "are you butthurt"? No one cares about the latter. That's your issue.

 

[Camp]

Ah now we have snowflake newspapers too.

Nah, this is just America standing up to the fascist crap you guys support like good little cult followers. Suppressing and neutralizing the press is what authoritarian fascist do, or at least try to do. And that isn't just hollow name calling, it's verified and accepted history.

What ridiculous exaggeration of reality.

No one proposes to "suppress and neutralize the press". Rather, we want to hold them to a standard of honesty in reporting. I know that sounds like a radical idea to the left, who have owned the press for the past 8 years, but we'd like to give it a try.

Once AGAIN ---- DID this state senator cancel his hearing --- or did he not?

The newspaper says he did. And he did not dispute that. So what do you know that somehow neither of them knows?

Win, lose or case dismissed, the senator pays a price for calling the paper a provider of fake news. His canceling of the hearing is getting much more publicity and boostid into a bigger story by his ploy to label the local newspaper "fake news".

 

[there4eyeM]

We are protected from bias when it is detected. It is the undetected bias in media that one must be alert to. It is up to the reader to inform while expecting any writer to have an opinion and point of view, as any human does and which is inescapable.

 

[Iceweasel]

How does calling them fake suppress them?

Perhaps you missed this line in the OP:

"The greatest asset of any newspaper or any news source is its credibility"
​

Is that not the case? Does this "newspaper" have any credibility? What's that? Oh that's just a reminder of what "fake news" actually is.​

It's really about shutting up any criticisms, period.

Right on, it's exactly about that. And when you equate a factual report --- the Senator cancelled a hearing --- with "Time Travelers are Changing Our History" ---- you're changing our history. By covering it up.

I didn't miss anything. You have all the analytical powers of a house fly. If someone calls an outfit fake how does that make it fake? You are implying the one comment can over ride the reputation the paper built up over the years.

The only reason they would get excited about it is if they knew it was true. It's the media trying to shut up all dissenters so they can continue to operate unchallenged. But many fake stories are out there, for you to be that ignorant at this point is without excuse ...so, housefly it is.

 

[Iceweasel]

Ah now we have snowflake newspapers too.

Nah, this is just America standing up to the fascist crap you guys support like good little cult followers. Suppressing and neutralizing the press is what authoritarian fascist do, or at least try to do. And that isn't just hollow name calling, it's verified and accepted history.

What ridiculous exaggeration of reality.

No one proposes to "suppress and neutralize the press". Rather, we want to hold them to a standard of honesty in reporting. I know that sounds like a radical idea to the left, who have owned the press for the past 8 years, but we'd like to give it a try.

Once AGAIN ---- DID this state senator cancel his hearing --- or did he not?

The newspaper says he did. And he did not dispute that. So what do you know that somehow neither of them knows?

Win, lose or case dismissed, the senator pays a price for calling the paper a provider of fake news. His canceling of the hearing is getting much more publicity and boostid into a bigger story by his ploy to label the local newspaper "fake news".

Problem is the media is not highly regarded. Most everyone knows they are biased. Trump would not have stood a prayer if the press was taken seriously.

 

[Camp]

Ah now we have snowflake newspapers too.

Nah, this is just America standing up to the fascist crap you guys support like good little cult followers. Suppressing and neutralizing the press is what authoritarian fascist do, or at least try to do. And that isn't just hollow name calling, it's verified and accepted history.

What ridiculous exaggeration of reality.

No one proposes to "suppress and neutralize the press". Rather, we want to hold them to a standard of honesty in reporting. I know that sounds like a radical idea to the left, who have owned the press for the past 8 years, but we'd like to give it a try.

Once AGAIN ---- DID this state senator cancel his hearing --- or did he not?

The newspaper says he did. And he did not dispute that. So what do you know that somehow neither of them knows?

Win, lose or case dismissed, the senator pays a price for calling the paper a provider of fake news. His canceling of the hearing is getting much more publicity and boostid into a bigger story by his ploy to label the local newspaper "fake news".

Problem is the media is not highly regarded. Most everyone knows they are biased. Trump would not have stood a prayer if the press was taken seriously.

You might be right. His historically low approval rating of 38% probably has nothing to do with the media reporting all his lies and stupid things he says.

 

[there4eyeM]

Since newspapers are mostly written for an eighth grade reading level, nuance and subtlety are unusable. Writing as simply as is necessary tends to simplistic reporting.

 

[ZZ PUPPS]

Nah, this is just America standing up to the fascist crap you guys support like good little cult followers. Suppressing and neutralizing the press is what authoritarian fascist do, or at least try to do. And that isn't just hollow name calling, it's verified and accepted history.

What ridiculous exaggeration of reality.

No one proposes to "suppress and neutralize the press". Rather, we want to hold them to a standard of honesty in reporting. I know that sounds like a radical idea to the left, who have owned the press for the past 8 years, but we'd like to give it a try.

Once AGAIN ---- DID this state senator cancel his hearing --- or did he not?

The newspaper says he did. And he did not dispute that. So what do you know that somehow neither of them knows?

Win, lose or case dismissed, the senator pays a price for calling the paper a provider of fake news. His canceling of the hearing is getting much more publicity and boostid into a bigger story by his ploy to label the local newspaper "fake news".

Problem is the media is not highly regarded. Most everyone knows they are biased. Trump would not have stood a prayer if the press was taken seriously.

You might be right. His historically low approval rating of 38% probably has nothing to do with the media reporting all his lies and stupid things he says.

The same polls that said he had no chance of WINNING...those pollsters?

 

[Divine Wind]

Maybe they were making up shit. Gawd knows it has become a trend.

Possible, but unlikely. I'm guessing the Senator will settle out of court.

 

[Spare_change]

Ah now we have snowflake newspapers too.

Nah, this is just America standing up to the fascist crap you guys support like good little cult followers. Suppressing and neutralizing the press is what authoritarian fascist do, or at least try to do. And that isn't just hollow name calling, it's verified and accepted history.

What ridiculous exaggeration of reality.

No one proposes to "suppress and neutralize the press". Rather, we want to hold them to a standard of honesty in reporting. I know that sounds like a radical idea to the left, who have owned the press for the past 8 years, but we'd like to give it a try.

Once AGAIN ---- DID this state senator cancel his hearing --- or did he not?

The newspaper says he did. And he did not dispute that. So what do you know that somehow neither of them knows?

i just happen to read that paper ----- it's local. It is a liberal biased piece of garbage who wouldn't know the truth if it slapped them in the face with a dead fish. It caters to the liberal idiots from the University Colorado-Boulder, that hot bed of progressive stupidity.

Once AGAIN ---- DID this state senator cancel his hearing --- or did he not?

Is the question some kind of mystery? Do you understand that the question is "are the facts wrong" -- it is not "are you butthurt"? No one cares about the latter. That's your issue.

I have no idea ... did he CLAIM that he didn't cancel the meeting? I don't think so ...

 

[Spare_change]

We are protected by bias when it is detected. It is the undetected bias in media that one must be alert to. It is up to the reader to inform while expecting any writer to have an opinion and point of view, as any human does and which inescapable.

That's a weak-ass excuse for unprofessional journalism and sloppy reporting. If they can read your opinion in the word selection, you've done a garbage job and deserve to be fired.

 

[Spare_change]

Since newspapers are mostly written for an eighth grade reading level, nuance and subtlety are unusable. Writing as simply as is necessary tends to simplistic reporting.

My journalism professor would slap you around the room !!!

A journalist's job is to tell THE story - straightforward, factual, and unbiased. If you can't do that, get a job at the local car wash. (That's a quote).

 

[there4eyeM]

We are protected by bias when it is detected. It is the undetected bias in media that one must be alert to. It is up to the reader to inform while expecting any writer to have an opinion and point of view, as any human does and which inescapable.

That's a weak-ass excuse for unprofessional journalism and sloppy reporting. If they can read your opinion in the word selection, you've done a garbage job and deserve to be fired.

If what was written is in accord with the editorial view, one might get a raise.