Politics Fake ass news.

Discussion in 'Blazers OT Forum' started by blue32, Feb 10, 2017.

  1. Denny Crane

    Denny Crane It's not even loaded! Staff Member Administrator

    Joined:
    May 24, 2007
    Messages:
    72,976
    Likes Received:
    10,655
    Trophy Points:
    113
    Occupation:
    Never lost a case
    Location:
    Boston Legal
    Who is this right wing news? On TV? Not CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, MSNBC, or local news, or NYTimes or WaPost.

    Trump voters aren't falling for anything. They're cheering Trump on in setting the media straight.

    Surely some good things have been accomplished since Trump took office. You got it right, it's outright ignored. On purpose.

    FWIW, CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, NYTimes, and WaPost should be objective, not cheerleaders or sore losers. Promoting this "truth" that is in the middle somehow.

    There are plenty of more fringe left wing and right wing sources to be the megaphone for the sore losers.
     
  2. Denny Crane

    Denny Crane It's not even loaded! Staff Member Administrator

    Joined:
    May 24, 2007
    Messages:
    72,976
    Likes Received:
    10,655
    Trophy Points:
    113
    Occupation:
    Never lost a case
    Location:
    Boston Legal
  3. SlyPokerDog

    SlyPokerDog Woof! Staff Member Administrator

    Joined:
    Oct 5, 2008
    Messages:
    122,878
    Likes Received:
    122,873
    Trophy Points:
    115
    OMG, that's awesome! There have been times when I've wondered if you have much of a sense of humor but to go full on KellyAnne to explain why you can't be called KellyAnne is one of the funniest posts ever.

    Well played! Rep'd!
     
    3RA1N1AC likes this.
  4. Nikolokolus

    Nikolokolus There's always next year

    Joined:
    Sep 19, 2008
    Messages:
    30,704
    Likes Received:
    6,198
    Trophy Points:
    113
    https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/about/

    This might be of marginal utility for those people genuinely curious about what kind of media you are consuming. I've found most of their ratings to be generally fair, and they even allow a certain amount of crowd-sourcing, so you can see what people who bother to vote actually think of news outlets. Not perfect, but maybe a way to get started?
     
    SlyPokerDog likes this.
  5. Nikolokolus

    Nikolokolus There's always next year

    Joined:
    Sep 19, 2008
    Messages:
    30,704
    Likes Received:
    6,198
    Trophy Points:
    113
    Then again, who's to say that website isn't fake?
     
    SlyPokerDog likes this.
  6. Nikolokolus

    Nikolokolus There's always next year

    Joined:
    Sep 19, 2008
    Messages:
    30,704
    Likes Received:
    6,198
    Trophy Points:
    113
    It's fun living in a post-facts world.
     
  7. UncleCliffy'sDaddy

    UncleCliffy'sDaddy We're all Bozos on this bus.

    Joined:
    Jul 2, 2015
    Messages:
    7,361
    Likes Received:
    14,943
    Trophy Points:
    113
    If for no other reason than "meltdown(s)" in the title is false advertising, this constitutes fake news. Just a bunch off people (pundits paid for their commentary) sharing honest opinions and feelings about Trump's election. They certainly reflected....very accurately.....how I felt and still feel. But then, who wants honesty??. Not the right. They'd rather be sore winners and gloat after personally "suffering" so terribly for the previous eight years. After all, they were such gracious "losers" during that time. Funny how you like to paint those who don't share your world view as "losers", and "butt hurt", et al, but you play the offended card when you're on the receiving end of labels you don't like.

    And Trump isn't setting anyone "straight" about the media. He and his posse are the proven liars, and his supporters deny the obvious and eat the lies like candy because it allows them to put off having to admit they were duped by a master conman. And sorry, but no, at least by my moderate standards "surely" nothing good has been done since Trump has been in the White House.....except for the marshaling of all those who honestly believe in the promise of this country and who have the courage to stand up to the bigots and corporate elitists who are hellbent on destroying what this country stands for and what actually made it great in the first place. And the right would love to take away that particular constitutional privilege so they don't have to suffer having the truth rubbed in their faces. For the media to say otherwise would then truly be a lie.....and you'd have an actual leg to stand on.
     
  8. Nikolokolus

    Nikolokolus There's always next year

    Joined:
    Sep 19, 2008
    Messages:
    30,704
    Likes Received:
    6,198
    Trophy Points:
    113
  9. 3RA1N1AC

    3RA1N1AC 00110110 00111001

    Joined:
    Oct 18, 2008
    Messages:
    20,918
    Likes Received:
    5,168
    Trophy Points:
    113
    I've known the "news" was biased for nearly my whole life. Newspapers have owners, tv stations have owners. All it takes is a little bit of common sense to see through the nonsense. The approximate truth is fairly easy to decipher most times.

    Suddenly having a problem with the media because they all hate your boy trump? Late to the party bro.
     
    Nikolokolus and Minstrel like this.
  10. MarAzul

    MarAzul LongShip

    Joined:
    Sep 28, 2008
    Messages:
    21,370
    Likes Received:
    7,281
    Trophy Points:
    113
    Occupation:
    Life is good!
    Location:
    Near Bandon Oregon
    Absolutely not the case, absolutely bullshit, you fail to pay attention. Yes the Media (press) has Constitutional protection and rightfully so. But this was never intended to extend into protected them from
    misleading their clients nor slandering the Government, including the Executives. And no way was it ever intended to permit them to commit sedition. The federal government has no due process in place
    to police the press and rightfully so as Jefferson has explained. The states are the only authority with jurisdiction to control slander and sedition by the press. Although Adams and Lincoln had sedition law
    to curb it, most people agree it is not wise for the federal government to police the people that are intended to watch their activity.

    But there is no State today with power over the press, so we have a big fucking hole. Trump is within his right to speak his mind under the first amendment and he is doing so. The untruthful bastards in the press who should guard the public interest have been failing to do so and now step into attempting sedition since their queen lost. It is time to learn what is right.
    CNN and MSNBC have been a fucking joke for over eight years now. I quit watch CNN about 13 14 years ago when I found them selling baloney too often. Switched to MSNBC for a few years
    until Chris Mathew got a thrill down his leg. That did it. Even Fox has their bull sellers but thankfully they did not renew the prime offender. Their man Sheppard Smith complains like you guys,
    poor sob, I think he is half retarded though. He is suppose to give the straight news but he just can help from weighing in.
     
  11. riverman

    riverman Writing Team

    Joined:
    Nov 15, 2013
    Messages:
    67,845
    Likes Received:
    66,600
    Trophy Points:
    113
    from a guy who just wrote a really, really long complaint? vote...you can complain...pay taxes...you can complain...serve your country ..you can complain...I haven't had a tv addiction in my entire life....never paid much attention..preferred to read...I like to think for myself...what I'm sick of is divisionism and labeling beyond being called a fellow American around here...that's a sign of the times...what I call fake news is assumptions...assigning categories to people because of their own freedoms of expression...we all filter what is our truth ...doesn't matter how you spin it.
     
    Last edited: Feb 27, 2017
    BLAZINGGIANTS likes this.
  12. barfo

    barfo triggered obsessive commie pinko boomer maniac Staff Member Global Moderator

    Joined:
    Sep 15, 2008
    Messages:
    34,044
    Likes Received:
    24,919
    Trophy Points:
    113
    Location:
    Blazer OT board
    Ok, some channels don't present the news the way you like. So go watch Fox or Infowars if that's what turns your crank. It's a free country. You don't have to watch TV if it makes you so angry.

    barfo
     
    riverman likes this.
  13. 3RA1N1AC

    3RA1N1AC 00110110 00111001

    Joined:
    Oct 18, 2008
    Messages:
    20,918
    Likes Received:
    5,168
    Trophy Points:
    113
    No! All media needs to confirm my pre existing bias. How else will I know how right I am about everything?
     
    SlyPokerDog likes this.
  14. MARIS61

    MARIS61 Real American

    Joined:
    Sep 12, 2008
    Messages:
    28,007
    Likes Received:
    5,012
    Trophy Points:
    113
    Occupation:
    retired Yankee
    Location:
    Beautiful Central Oregon
  15. MarAzul

    MarAzul LongShip

    Joined:
    Sep 28, 2008
    Messages:
    21,370
    Likes Received:
    7,281
    Trophy Points:
    113
    Occupation:
    Life is good!
    Location:
    Near Bandon Oregon
    Example of the National guard story.
    CBS covered it fairly well as a story put out by the AP
    http://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-a...-national-guard-troops-for-immigration-raids/
    The AP it's self, not quite so good, as it is a bogus story pick up from a desert horn toad.
    http://bigstory.ap.org/article/5508...ghs-mobilizing-nat-guard-immigration-roundups

    I first heard it on CNN, selling it like Oh shit, look what that cretin is doing now!
    Just like they sold the story of the video that caused the Benghazi attack.

    Neither one were believable and the new agencies ought to tell the reader/viewer why. They did not.
     
  16. blue32

    blue32 Who wants a mustache ride?

    Joined:
    Oct 15, 2008
    Messages:
    8,613
    Likes Received:
    2,102
    Trophy Points:
    113

    So many wrongs w/this picture. But, I'll just name a couple gimmies.

    1. CNN should be squarely in the mixed quality, towards lower quality with its continual lack of false reporting from Don Lemon to name one. As well as being under the middle of Hyper Left and Garbage left due to the bias shown during the election campaign; Donna Brazil, Wolf Blitzer anyone?

    2. Politico is not as high quality as it shows on here. Not even close.


    ....and many more...
     

Share This Page