Love Sharylâs work, and as I skimmed the list. A handful may be âmistakesâ. Most are examples of dishonest information put out by dishonest media to shape the publicâs opinion of President Trump. So mistake is the wrong description. The correct description would be Fake News.
We the media have âfact-checkedâ President Trump like we have fact-checked no other human being on the planetâand heâs certainly given us plenty to write about. Thatâs probably why itâs so easy to find lists enumerating and examining his mistakes, missteps and âlies.â
But as self-appointed arbiters of truth, weâve 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 Trumpâs claims are âliesâ when they are matters of opinion, or when the truth between conflicting sources is unknowable; taking Trumpâs statements and events out of context; reporting secondhand accounts against Trump without attribution as if theyâre established fact; relying on untruthful, conflicted sources; and presenting reporter opinions in news storiesâwithout labeling them as opinions.
Whatâs worse, we defend ourselves by trying to convince the public that our mistakes are actually a virtue because we (sometimes) correct them. Or we blame Trump for why weâre getting so much wrong. Itâs a little bit like a police officer taking someone to jail for DUI, then driving home drunk himself: he may be correct to arrest the suspect, but he should certainly know better than to commit the same violation.
So since nobody else has compiled an updated, extensive list of this kind, here are:
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We the media have âfact-checkedâ President Trump like we have fact-checked no other human being on the planetâand heâs certainly given us plenty to write about. Thatâs probably why itâs so easy to find lists enumerating and examining his mistakes, missteps and âlies.â
But as self-appointed arbiters of truth, weâve 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 Trumpâs claims are âliesâ when they are matters of opinion, or when the truth between conflicting sources is unknowable; taking Trumpâs statements and events out of context; reporting secondhand accounts against Trump without attribution as if theyâre established fact; relying on untruthful, conflicted sources; and presenting reporter opinions in news storiesâwithout labeling them as opinions.
Whatâs worse, we defend ourselves by trying to convince the public that our mistakes are actually a virtue because we (sometimes) correct them. Or we blame Trump for why weâre getting so much wrong. Itâs a little bit like a police officer taking someone to jail for DUI, then driving home drunk himself: he may be correct to arrest the suspect, but he should certainly know better than to commit the same violation.
So since nobody else has compiled an updated, extensive list of this kind, here are:
Read more at sharylattkisson.com ...
