Zombie Journalist of the Year (CNN) resigns for Fake News stories

...short answer?...anything that upsets Trump or has the audacity to question him in any way.

 

Because he won Journalist of the year and it was a CNN award?

If someone wins an Oscar, do they say it was an Oscar or do they say "movie award?"

 

Do I need to put the link in green font every time I post an Onion or Babylon Bee satire, or is everybody up to speed now?

Before the internet, pretty much every American could recognize satire immediately, and most knew how to wield it effectively.

I'd be tempted to blame it on uneducated youth, but considering the 2-3 posters who have trouble detecting it are seniors I'm starting to suspect dementia may be the culprit.

Lanny gets a pass, because he's an engineer.

I've got several clients who are engineers and they view everything in life through an engineer's analytical eye.

If it strays outside the range of strictly established tolerances, it simply makes no sense at all. Not the guys to take out for a fun night at the comedy club.

 

...I just love cartoons.

 

Okay, this is Real:

CNN settles Nick Sandmann defamation lawsuit in Covington Catholic High School controversy
By Joseph A. Wulfsohn | Fox News

Judge reopens Covington student defamation suit against Washington Post

CNN on Tuesday settled a defamation lawsuit filed by Covington Catholic High School student Nick Sandmann over its botched coverage of a viral confrontation with a Native American elder that had portrayed the Kentucky teen as the aggressor.

Fox 19 first reported that CNN settled with Sandmann for an undisclosed amount. The $250 million defamation suit sought damages for the "emotional distress Nicholas and his family suffered" in the fallout of the network's reporting.

A lawyer for Sandmann declined to comment on the settlement but confirmed to Fox News that lawsuits against The Washington Post and NBC were ongoing. Fox 19 also reported that Sandmann attorney L. Lin Wood told the judge they planned to sue media company Gannett, the publisher of the Cincinnati Enquirer among other newspapers, within 60 days. Gannett did not immediately comment either.

Last March, Sandmann's attorneys launched their suit against CNN for its coverage of the incident before all the facts had surfaced. The teen was seeking a whopping $800 million in damages between the three news outlets.

WASHINGTON POST RIPS CNN FOR ITS FAULTY REPORTING ON STEELE DOSSIER, DEMANDS NETWORK 'COME CLEAN'

Sandmann was swept up in a controversy after a video clip depicted the "MAGA" hat-wearing student smiling at Nathan Phillips beating a drum and singing a chant as he was surrounded by Sandmann's peers, who all had joined in on the chant in front of the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.

However, several mainstream media outlets, including CNN, portrayed the incident with Sandmann and the other teens as being racially-charged before it was discovered by additional footage that a group of Black Hebrew Israelites had provoked the confrontation by slinging racial slurs at the students as they were waiting for their bus following last year's March For Life event in Washington D.C. Footage then showed Phillips, who was in town for the Indigenous Peoples March, approaching the students amid the rising tension between the two groups.

 

Well, of course it is...because, well, it's from Faux News.

 

The terms need leaked. This I want to know all about.

 

There are 2 more lawsuits unsettled. I'm sure the terms of this include not divulging the amount until the others are decided.

 

Are you disputing the facts of the article?

Or just trolling?

I am asking because this is your standard response to every factual article I post, and I believe you could/should articulate your thoughts in a clearer manner if in fact you doubted the veracity of the post.

 

Conspicuous by their silence.

Interesting that the guys who cry about "fake news" the most, like @TBpup and @MARIS61, can't actually prove or defend their accusations.

 

I rarely see tbpup in the OT section, and yeah he started this thread but it was over a year ago. Just an observation.

 

I dont think Ive come here and cried about “fake news”, but to answer your question. I guess to me yes credibility is a factor, but its beyond that, how they choose what they want to talk about, making “small stories”, “big stories” because it fits into an agenda. Only telling the facts of a story that benefit them instead of all the facts. Those are the type of things that bother me about CNN and Fox and the major news networks, when their political leanings are skewing either the stories they choose to air, or the way they’re presenting the stories I think it creates a distrust for them.

I dont know what the numbers say, but anecdotally I dont know any other millennials that take major news networks seriously, almost all my friends in my age group have youtubers, or smaller news sites they frequent because (right or wrong), they’ve chosen to trust them instead.

 

lol...once again, the crux of the point went right over your head.

...btw, how are Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd doing?

 

I should ignore him but I'm so used to dealing with real human beings who deserve a response that I keep getting sucked back in.

 

This thread is a microcosm of our society.
We all know both sides have extremists pushing narratives like facts trying to coherse the public to join their political agendas.

And instead of joining together ti fight the fake news, we end up pointing the fingers at each other….


So unproductive…

both sides of the political spectrum should be dissapointed in this thread.
Fake news is a real issue. And neither side should dismiss their own doing it but then point fingers at the other side.

 

Most people develop adult filters for media at some point in life and fully understand fake news has always been there....doesn't matter which political branch it comes from or corporate interest or whatever but at some point people shouldn't be that impressionable by editorials...opinion pieces, etc but when it invades civil liberties and the white house, it's more than fake news, it's a problem..everybody's problem...especially when the leaders are openly lying about things that affect us all like a pandemic or a trade war or a border crisis....everything is a topic of controversy given how people aren't in agreement about most things in life but choices...we make them and we define the truth as it rings true to our filters and logic....nothing wrong with that...but shutting off the tv is the best filter......be selective about headline sensationlized click bait articles, etc.....the media has always been peppered with fake news ...Harry Truman lost the election according to a Chicago news paper....it becomes a national joke...When a liar calls his detractors "fake news" it's one thing but when that liar is compulsive and president...it's another thing entirely....

 

you say this like Trump is the first president to lie…

the fixation on trump should really be over. He wasn't the first liar in the white house and likely wont be the last.
Dont take that as tolerance of his behavior.
But lets not act like he invented this larger fake news from the white house thing.

The reality is news reporters no longer take pride in reporting the actual truth but rather take pride in how many clicks and likes their fake headlines can get.
How many people can they sway their way?

It has become more important to try to change minds than it is to report the truth.

Far too many reporters posting satire as news.

To put it another way, Trump affected half of America. This fake news reporting is affecting EVERYONE.

Too many people do not have the time or know how to investigate deep enough to validate the things they read.
Shit i barely have the time and need to catch myself at times from spreading things im not sure is true.

Trump was a complete chump. But he didn't invent this game. It has been in the whitehouse before. And he is now gone, but the fake news issue is worse than ever.
I would stop fixating on Trump and see the bigger picture.

yea fake news has always been around, but to not acknowledge that its now spread quicker, and further than ever before, is quite naive in todays social media world.

And btw? I consider things like FB part of the problem too. Google is even fake.

FaKe news is a bigger problem than Trump. Even if Trump used it to his advantage.