Distorting not reporting
This first referenced article below, while perhaps not especially profound, is on target.
Readers can be easily put off by lengthy and professorial pieces. But this one is to the point, rather short, yet reveals some items casual readers probably haven’t seen, or maybe fully understood.
This one isn’t going to cause traditional Americans to rise up and “take back our country” but it’s one drip, and maybe 10 more, or maybe 100, or one thousand will.
Anyway, it’s worth a read (excerpt to give you the flavor)
Donald Trump, Huxley and the ‘enemies of freedom’
It was the tweet heard round the world.
“The FAKE NEWS media (failing @nytimes, @NBCNews, @ABC, @CBS, @CNN) is not my enemy, it is the enemy of the American People!” —Donald Trump, via Twitter, Feb. 17, 2017.
Trump the counterpuncher had thrown a wicked jab at his favorite target, the “fake news media,” or what he calls “the opposition party.” And right on schedule, the fake news media responded by getting the story wrong.
The headline in the New York Times is one example of many: “Trump Calls the News Media the ‘Enemy of the American People.’”
Um, no, sorry. He didn’t. He called the “Fake News media” the enemy of the American people, and he specifically identified that as the N.Y. Times, NBC, ABC, CBS and CNN. Yet for days, the story became that President Trump had declared war on “the media” or “the press” — all brought about by the convenient and no doubt intentional omission of the word “fake.”
And let’s face it, the inability to accurately report the contents of a 22-word post on Twitter says volumes about the agenda-driven “reporting” that we have come to expect from the guiding lights of the mainstream media.
They even do fake news about fake news
Excerpt from a John Hinderaker article at Power Line:
Fake entertainment news from the NY Times and Associated Press
The New York Times devotes a long article, with video clips, to last night’s Saturday Night Live show. It appears that the entire program was devoted to attacking President Trump, or members of his administration or family.
The opening sequence portrayed Trump as a coward. There is an alien invasion:
Mr. Baldwin … began by asking, “Who here loves Trump?”
“I know this guy over here, he loves Trump,” he said, pointing at what turned out to be a charred corpse.
Hilarious.
The actress Scarlett Johansson did a mock perfume commercial that attacked Ivanka Trump. (“A final voice-over for Complicit described it as ‘the fragrance for the woman who could stop all this, but won’t.’”) These guys are a barrel of laughs. . . .
The Associated Press considers Saturday Night Live to be newsworthy, too. It focused on the program’s smearing of Ivanka Trump:
The biting humor of “Saturday Night Live” took aim at another Trump this week — first daughter Ivanka.
The long-standing comedy show skewered President Donald Trump’s elder daughter with a faux perfume ad, starring actress Scarlett Johansson. The name of the perfume? Complicit.
So why is a bad Democratic Party comedy show, which has attacked Republicans in the same boring way for 40 years, taken seriously as news? That isn’t hard to figure out. The Times and the AP would like to engage in the same vicious smears that the “comedians” of Saturday Night Live do, but they have to maintain some pretense of being news outlets rather than propaganda machines. The solution? Enthusiastic coverage of the left-wing “comedy” show with blow-by-blow repetition of its pro-Democratic Party smears
DLH
