Be Careful With What You Claim Is True

[otto105]

Stephen Glass, rising star in the "New Republic" guilty of fabricating stories. Now he works in a law firm. Figures. These days lefties seem to rely on and even look forward to breathless stories credited to anonymous, unverified and unidentified sources described as "officials" or "persons closest to the target". Chances are they are neither but who knows? The mainstream media has become so desperate for stories critical of the administration that they don't even bother to authenticate them or check them for accuracy.

1. "Now he works in a law firm. Figures."
Shakespeare said ‘kill all the lawyers’….and it might work! ‘Cause if we kill ‘em all….we could claim at our trial that we didn’t have adequate representation.



2. "These days lefties seem to rely on and even look forward to breathless stories credited to anonymous, unverified and unidentified sources described as "officials" or "persons closest to the target". Chances are they are neither but who knows?"

Whitey....you are being far too kind.
The point of the OP is that they lie.
They simply make up what benefits their political biases....and influence the what-passes-for-thinking of their drones.




3.Bet you remember this:

1. After someone torpedoed Dave Weigel’s Washington Post gig by breaking the code of silence on the Journolist listserv, the race has been on to see who would sell the entire contents of the e-mail messages between the liberal members of the group — and who would get to buy them. We may never know who sold it, but Tucker Carlson and the Daily Caller wound up with the data,…
2. Daily Caller reporter Jonathan Strong lays out a strategy plotted by Journolist members to kill the Jeremiah Wright story during the 2008 primaries — and to smear Barack Obama’s critics as racists:
3. …videos surfaced of Obama’s pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, angrily denouncing whites, the U.S. government and America itself. Obama had once bragged of his closeness to Wright….in mid-April, 2008, at an ABC News debate moderated by Charlie Gibson and George Stephanopoulos. Gibson asked Obama why it had taken him so long – nearly a year since Wright’s remarks became public – to dissociate himself from them.
4. Watching this all at home were members of Journolist, a listserv comprised of several hundred liberal journalists, as well as like-minded professors and activists. The tough questioning from the ABC anchors left many of them outraged.
5. …at several points during the 2008 presidential campaign a group of liberal journalists took radical steps to protect their favored candidate. Employees of news organizations including Time, Politico, the Huffington Post, the Baltimore Sun, the Guardian, Salon and the New Republic participated in outpourings of anger over how Obama had been treated in the media, and in some cases plotted to fix the damage.
6. Spencer Ackerman of the Washington Independent urged his colleagues to deflect attention from Obama’s relationship with Wright by changing the subject. Pick one of Obama’s conservative critics, Ackerman wrote, “Fred Barnes, Karl Rove, who cares — and call them racists.”
7. Journolist members collaborated on an open letter criticizing ABC’s Charlie Gibson for asking questions about Wright during ABC’s presidential debate between Obama and Hillary Clinton….a campaign by professional journalists to tell ABC not to ask tough questions about a candidate’s links to radicals…
8. Ackerman appealed to the other members of the Journolist group: “If the right forces us all to either defend Wright or tear him down, no matter what we choose, we lose the game they’ve put upon us. Instead, take one of them — Fred Barnes, Karl Rove, who cares — and call them racists. Ask: why do they have such a deep-seated problem with a black politician who unites the country? What lurks behind those problems? This makes *them* sputter with rage, which in turn leads to overreaction and self-destruction.”
9. It certainly puts efforts by the Left to paint the Tea Party as racist in an entirely new light. It also calls into question the ethics and judgment of anyone who participated in that Ackerman thread.

Daily Caller discovers Journolist plot to spike Wright story, smear conservatives as racists

I'm pretty sure credibility was lost on the post with the repeated misspelling of journalist.

 

[eagle1462010]

Stephen Glass, rising star in the "New Republic" guilty of fabricating stories. Now he works in a law firm. Figures. These days lefties seem to rely on and even look forward to breathless stories credited to anonymous, unverified and unidentified sources described as "officials" or "persons closest to the target". Chances are they are neither but who knows? The mainstream media has become so desperate for stories critical of the administration that they don't even bother to authenticate them or check them for accuracy.

1. "Now he works in a law firm. Figures."
Shakespeare said ‘kill all the lawyers’….and it might work! ‘Cause if we kill ‘em all….we could claim at our trial that we didn’t have adequate representation.



2. "These days lefties seem to rely on and even look forward to breathless stories credited to anonymous, unverified and unidentified sources described as "officials" or "persons closest to the target". Chances are they are neither but who knows?"

Whitey....you are being far too kind.
The point of the OP is that they lie.
They simply make up what benefits their political biases....and influence the what-passes-for-thinking of their drones.




3.Bet you remember this:

1. After someone torpedoed Dave Weigel’s Washington Post gig by breaking the code of silence on the Journolist listserv, the race has been on to see who would sell the entire contents of the e-mail messages between the liberal members of the group — and who would get to buy them. We may never know who sold it, but Tucker Carlson and the Daily Caller wound up with the data,…
2. Daily Caller reporter Jonathan Strong lays out a strategy plotted by Journolist members to kill the Jeremiah Wright story during the 2008 primaries — and to smear Barack Obama’s critics as racists:
3. …videos surfaced of Obama’s pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, angrily denouncing whites, the U.S. government and America itself. Obama had once bragged of his closeness to Wright….in mid-April, 2008, at an ABC News debate moderated by Charlie Gibson and George Stephanopoulos. Gibson asked Obama why it had taken him so long – nearly a year since Wright’s remarks became public – to dissociate himself from them.
4. Watching this all at home were members of Journolist, a listserv comprised of several hundred liberal journalists, as well as like-minded professors and activists. The tough questioning from the ABC anchors left many of them outraged.
5. …at several points during the 2008 presidential campaign a group of liberal journalists took radical steps to protect their favored candidate. Employees of news organizations including Time, Politico, the Huffington Post, the Baltimore Sun, the Guardian, Salon and the New Republic participated in outpourings of anger over how Obama had been treated in the media, and in some cases plotted to fix the damage.
6. Spencer Ackerman of the Washington Independent urged his colleagues to deflect attention from Obama’s relationship with Wright by changing the subject. Pick one of Obama’s conservative critics, Ackerman wrote, “Fred Barnes, Karl Rove, who cares — and call them racists.”
7. Journolist members collaborated on an open letter criticizing ABC’s Charlie Gibson for asking questions about Wright during ABC’s presidential debate between Obama and Hillary Clinton….a campaign by professional journalists to tell ABC not to ask tough questions about a candidate’s links to radicals…
8. Ackerman appealed to the other members of the Journolist group: “If the right forces us all to either defend Wright or tear him down, no matter what we choose, we lose the game they’ve put upon us. Instead, take one of them — Fred Barnes, Karl Rove, who cares — and call them racists. Ask: why do they have such a deep-seated problem with a black politician who unites the country? What lurks behind those problems? This makes *them* sputter with rage, which in turn leads to overreaction and self-destruction.”
9. It certainly puts efforts by the Left to paint the Tea Party as racist in an entirely new light. It also calls into question the ethics and judgment of anyone who participated in that Ackerman thread.

Daily Caller discovers Journolist plot to spike Wright story, smear conservatives as racists

I'm pretty sure credibility was lost on the post with the repeated misspelling of journalist.

Oh shit.........the spelling police is here..........

Da Journalist lie their stinking asses off all the time............da.....

 

[william the wie]

My one dispute with the OP is the presumption that in some universe far, far away accurate non-financial news, valid science (as opposed to engineering), non-corrupt politics and education without a political agenda exists or at least did so in pre-historic times

 

[otto105]

Stephen Glass, rising star in the "New Republic" guilty of fabricating stories. Now he works in a law firm. Figures. These days lefties seem to rely on and even look forward to breathless stories credited to anonymous, unverified and unidentified sources described as "officials" or "persons closest to the target". Chances are they are neither but who knows? The mainstream media has become so desperate for stories critical of the administration that they don't even bother to authenticate them or check them for accuracy.

1. "Now he works in a law firm. Figures."
Shakespeare said ‘kill all the lawyers’….and it might work! ‘Cause if we kill ‘em all….we could claim at our trial that we didn’t have adequate representation.



2. "These days lefties seem to rely on and even look forward to breathless stories credited to anonymous, unverified and unidentified sources described as "officials" or "persons closest to the target". Chances are they are neither but who knows?"

Whitey....you are being far too kind.
The point of the OP is that they lie.
They simply make up what benefits their political biases....and influence the what-passes-for-thinking of their drones.




3.Bet you remember this:

1. After someone torpedoed Dave Weigel’s Washington Post gig by breaking the code of silence on the Journolist listserv, the race has been on to see who would sell the entire contents of the e-mail messages between the liberal members of the group — and who would get to buy them. We may never know who sold it, but Tucker Carlson and the Daily Caller wound up with the data,…
2. Daily Caller reporter Jonathan Strong lays out a strategy plotted by Journolist members to kill the Jeremiah Wright story during the 2008 primaries — and to smear Barack Obama’s critics as racists:
3. …videos surfaced of Obama’s pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, angrily denouncing whites, the U.S. government and America itself. Obama had once bragged of his closeness to Wright….in mid-April, 2008, at an ABC News debate moderated by Charlie Gibson and George Stephanopoulos. Gibson asked Obama why it had taken him so long – nearly a year since Wright’s remarks became public – to dissociate himself from them.
4. Watching this all at home were members of Journolist, a listserv comprised of several hundred liberal journalists, as well as like-minded professors and activists. The tough questioning from the ABC anchors left many of them outraged.
5. …at several points during the 2008 presidential campaign a group of liberal journalists took radical steps to protect their favored candidate. Employees of news organizations including Time, Politico, the Huffington Post, the Baltimore Sun, the Guardian, Salon and the New Republic participated in outpourings of anger over how Obama had been treated in the media, and in some cases plotted to fix the damage.
6. Spencer Ackerman of the Washington Independent urged his colleagues to deflect attention from Obama’s relationship with Wright by changing the subject. Pick one of Obama’s conservative critics, Ackerman wrote, “Fred Barnes, Karl Rove, who cares — and call them racists.”
7. Journolist members collaborated on an open letter criticizing ABC’s Charlie Gibson for asking questions about Wright during ABC’s presidential debate between Obama and Hillary Clinton….a campaign by professional journalists to tell ABC not to ask tough questions about a candidate’s links to radicals…
8. Ackerman appealed to the other members of the Journolist group: “If the right forces us all to either defend Wright or tear him down, no matter what we choose, we lose the game they’ve put upon us. Instead, take one of them — Fred Barnes, Karl Rove, who cares — and call them racists. Ask: why do they have such a deep-seated problem with a black politician who unites the country? What lurks behind those problems? This makes *them* sputter with rage, which in turn leads to overreaction and self-destruction.”
9. It certainly puts efforts by the Left to paint the Tea Party as racist in an entirely new light. It also calls into question the ethics and judgment of anyone who participated in that Ackerman thread.

Daily Caller discovers Journolist plot to spike Wright story, smear conservatives as racists

I'm pretty sure credibility was lost on the post with the repeated misspelling of journalist.

Oh shit.........the spelling police is here..........

Da Journalist lie their stinking asses off all the time............da.....

The very least that she could do in posting propaganda is to spellcheck the cut and paste for you.

Like your grammar.

 

[eagle1462010]

Stephen Glass, rising star in the "New Republic" guilty of fabricating stories. Now he works in a law firm. Figures. These days lefties seem to rely on and even look forward to breathless stories credited to anonymous, unverified and unidentified sources described as "officials" or "persons closest to the target". Chances are they are neither but who knows? The mainstream media has become so desperate for stories critical of the administration that they don't even bother to authenticate them or check them for accuracy.

1. "Now he works in a law firm. Figures."
Shakespeare said ‘kill all the lawyers’….and it might work! ‘Cause if we kill ‘em all….we could claim at our trial that we didn’t have adequate representation.



2. "These days lefties seem to rely on and even look forward to breathless stories credited to anonymous, unverified and unidentified sources described as "officials" or "persons closest to the target". Chances are they are neither but who knows?"

Whitey....you are being far too kind.
The point of the OP is that they lie.
They simply make up what benefits their political biases....and influence the what-passes-for-thinking of their drones.




3.Bet you remember this:

1. After someone torpedoed Dave Weigel’s Washington Post gig by breaking the code of silence on the Journolist listserv, the race has been on to see who would sell the entire contents of the e-mail messages between the liberal members of the group — and who would get to buy them. We may never know who sold it, but Tucker Carlson and the Daily Caller wound up with the data,…
2. Daily Caller reporter Jonathan Strong lays out a strategy plotted by Journolist members to kill the Jeremiah Wright story during the 2008 primaries — and to smear Barack Obama’s critics as racists:
3. …videos surfaced of Obama’s pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, angrily denouncing whites, the U.S. government and America itself. Obama had once bragged of his closeness to Wright….in mid-April, 2008, at an ABC News debate moderated by Charlie Gibson and George Stephanopoulos. Gibson asked Obama why it had taken him so long – nearly a year since Wright’s remarks became public – to dissociate himself from them.
4. Watching this all at home were members of Journolist, a listserv comprised of several hundred liberal journalists, as well as like-minded professors and activists. The tough questioning from the ABC anchors left many of them outraged.
5. …at several points during the 2008 presidential campaign a group of liberal journalists took radical steps to protect their favored candidate. Employees of news organizations including Time, Politico, the Huffington Post, the Baltimore Sun, the Guardian, Salon and the New Republic participated in outpourings of anger over how Obama had been treated in the media, and in some cases plotted to fix the damage.
6. Spencer Ackerman of the Washington Independent urged his colleagues to deflect attention from Obama’s relationship with Wright by changing the subject. Pick one of Obama’s conservative critics, Ackerman wrote, “Fred Barnes, Karl Rove, who cares — and call them racists.”
7. Journolist members collaborated on an open letter criticizing ABC’s Charlie Gibson for asking questions about Wright during ABC’s presidential debate between Obama and Hillary Clinton….a campaign by professional journalists to tell ABC not to ask tough questions about a candidate’s links to radicals…
8. Ackerman appealed to the other members of the Journolist group: “If the right forces us all to either defend Wright or tear him down, no matter what we choose, we lose the game they’ve put upon us. Instead, take one of them — Fred Barnes, Karl Rove, who cares — and call them racists. Ask: why do they have such a deep-seated problem with a black politician who unites the country? What lurks behind those problems? This makes *them* sputter with rage, which in turn leads to overreaction and self-destruction.”
9. It certainly puts efforts by the Left to paint the Tea Party as racist in an entirely new light. It also calls into question the ethics and judgment of anyone who participated in that Ackerman thread.

Daily Caller discovers Journolist plot to spike Wright story, smear conservatives as racists

I'm pretty sure credibility was lost on the post with the repeated misspelling of journalist.

Oh shit.........the spelling police is here..........

Da Journalist lie their stinking asses off all the time............da.....

The very least that she could do in posting propaganda is to spellcheck the cut and paste for you.

Like your grammar.

Thanks ............I sucked at spelling and englash...........but excelled in Math in Science.........

The Op appears to be about lying reporters......having fun with it.........LOL

 

[Skylar]

Just yesterday, a blockbuster story came out of Germany, revealing that a prize winning journalist has been exposed as faking his stories for years.
As is the case with most 'journalists,' his tales were 'attack Trump' pieces.




When you see the story below, about how fact-checkers permitted him to get away with it….accidently or with cause, recognize the more important lesson herein:

Scientists are like journalists….and fact-checkers are the vaunted “peer review.”




"Der Spiegel’s first-class faker
How did a magazine with a renowned fact-checking department fall for fabrication?

HAMBURG — Fake news wasn’t invented by the Russians.

The New York Times had Jayson Blair, who faked dozens of articles and interviews over the years. U.S.A. Today had Jack Kelley, who made up sensational stories about events he had not witnessed and places he had not seen. In both cases, the editors were forced to resign.

Now, it’s Der Spiegel’s turn. The fabled German news magazine’s award-winning reporter Claas Relotius, 33, a legend in his time, replaced facts with fantasy. He quoted people he had not interviewed. He described streets and buildings he had seen on Google Earth only. Painted in exquisite detail, the scenes were nothing more than figments of his imagination.

For Spiegel, which prides itself on having the best fact-checking department in the business, this is Armageddon.

To salvage its honor, it has launched a top-to-bottom investigation of the publication, ruthlessly trying to answer the Big Question that tortured the Times and U.S.A. Today as well: How could this have happened — and to us, the best of the best?

“People are people, and journalists are people.” Basically, what we tend to forget is that journalists are human beings driven by vanity, pride, and greed for fame and advancement.

Fact-checkers are humans, too, and so they will not insult the dignity and authority of the greats by doubting their words.




Something similar happened in 1983 — when, in perhaps the biggest, most memorable scandal of them all, German magazine Stern published the “diaries’ of Adolf Hitler.

These 63 volumes — which the magazine trumpeted would turn our view of Nazi history on its head — were fiction from beginning to end, the product of a forger who pocketed millions from the publication.

In Relotius’ case, another, a more insidious dynamic may have been at work — the unarticulated expectations of editors as they send off their reporters, and their anticipation the reported piece that comes back will confirm what they already know to be true.

Among Relotius’ most celebrated articles were his pieces on Donald Trump’s America. They paint a picture of the country Europeans love to despise.

“In This Small Town” — a 7,300-word story about Fergus Falls, where “people pray for Donald Trump on Sundays,” confirmed what we all “know.” It was a tableau of “red-neck” America — a gun-toting, intolerant, anti-immigrant and irrationally religious nation.”
Der Spiegel’s first-class faker





The same rule applies in spades to your teachers and professors.

In comparison to what......claims that Trump won the popular vote perhaps?

That Trump didn't know about the payments to Stormy Daniels?

That there were 3 to 5 million illegal votes in the 2016 election?

That Trump had the largest inauguration crowd in history?

The claim that the US has the highest murder rate in 47 years?

Your ilk seem to revel in lies. Making your mock outrage at 'one reporter in Germany' a little disingenuous.

 

[Lesh]

Proper journalism is important.

YOU believed Pizzagate and it WASN'T put out by a respected journalist so you don't have that excuse