When the parties are unwilling or unable to agree on moral and ethical standards that all agree to abide by you end up with fact-free politics that have no relationship to the real world. Too bad communication and cooperation are banned by the opposing forces.
Do you recall the Seth Rich story? Fox News published an article linking his death to sharing emails with Wikileaks. As it turns out, there was no evidence of that. Fox News retracted and apologized. Nobody was forced to resign. Sean Hannity was the network’s biggest proponent of the conspiracy theory, yet he never retracted or apologized. He refused to admit it’s “fake news” and simply said he wouldn’t talk about it anymore. He wasn’t sanctioned, punished, or forced to resign. He got Bill O’Reilly’s time slot.
Every single news outlet is going to make mistakes. Sometimes huge ones. What needs to be watched is how they handle it. Do they admit it and issue a retraction, or do they leave it on their site for days with an itty bitty editor’s note, or do they sweep it under the rug?
Over the past week, the same right-wing nut jobs who faked a bunch of sabotage videos of Planned Parenthood did the same thing with CNN. They got a CNN producer who works on health segments to say the Russia thing was fake. They got Van Jones on camera saying it was a “nothing burger,” a term that has seriously “jumped the shark.” Another producer for their morning show New Day, is on camera saying voters are idiots and the Russian narrative is “bullsh?t.”[…]
Night-Gaunt49
And what have we learned? That the liars attack legitimate news for correcting their mistakes while they never retract, never apologize, never correct because legitimate news isn’t what they do. They make things up, spread innuendo, be enemies of truth and knowledge for money. A pox on any society.
Odon Premium Member almost 7 years ago
Funny how that doesn’t bother those who complain about CNN.
superposition almost 7 years ago
When the parties are unwilling or unable to agree on moral and ethical standards that all agree to abide by you end up with fact-free politics that have no relationship to the real world. Too bad communication and cooperation are banned by the opposing forces.
Masterskrain Premium Member almost 7 years ago
And THERE you have it’s folks. Reality, right there!
Teto85 Premium Member almost 7 years ago
Just a reminder, Effigy, Minnesota is a nice pace for a trump burning.
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] almost 7 years ago
From Clay Jones’ blog:
Do you recall the Seth Rich story? Fox News published an article linking his death to sharing emails with Wikileaks. As it turns out, there was no evidence of that. Fox News retracted and apologized. Nobody was forced to resign. Sean Hannity was the network’s biggest proponent of the conspiracy theory, yet he never retracted or apologized. He refused to admit it’s “fake news” and simply said he wouldn’t talk about it anymore. He wasn’t sanctioned, punished, or forced to resign. He got Bill O’Reilly’s time slot.
Every single news outlet is going to make mistakes. Sometimes huge ones. What needs to be watched is how they handle it. Do they admit it and issue a retraction, or do they leave it on their site for days with an itty bitty editor’s note, or do they sweep it under the rug?
Over the past week, the same right-wing nut jobs who faked a bunch of sabotage videos of Planned Parenthood did the same thing with CNN. They got a CNN producer who works on health segments to say the Russia thing was fake. They got Van Jones on camera saying it was a “nothing burger,” a term that has seriously “jumped the shark.” Another producer for their morning show New Day, is on camera saying voters are idiots and the Russian narrative is “bullsh?t.”[…]
Night-Gaunt49
And what have we learned? That the liars attack legitimate news for correcting their mistakes while they never retract, never apologize, never correct because legitimate news isn’t what they do. They make things up, spread innuendo, be enemies of truth and knowledge for money. A pox on any society.