The Media's Portrayal of Trump and His Presidency

[Nanker]

On 3/31/2020 at 10:26 PM, BillStime said:

 

LMAO

 

 

[B-Man]

#JournalistJokes

 

Three journalists walk into a building. You’d think one of them would’ve seen it.

 

What does a journalist get when you give him Viagra?

Taller.

 

How does a journalist change a light bulb?

He holds while the whole world revolves around him.

 

What are the best four years of a journalist’s life?

Third grade.

[B-Man]

YOU PROBABLY SAW THAT MISLEADING MAP OF TRAVEL BASED ON CELLPHONE VIDEOS.

 

IT WAS USED IN A CONDESCENDING AND ELITIST WAY.

 

Today, New York Times journalist and podcast host Michael Barbaro tweeted a map showing on the dates when people stopped traveling over two miles. Most of the South was lit up bright red, an indication that they hadn’t stopped until very recently, if at all. Other states had red counties, but it was hard to ignore the blaring siren of the South.

 

In the midst of a pandemic where folks are encouraged to stay home, this chart could seem damning, especially if you think the South is full of idiot rednecks.

 

Which Barbaro apparently does.

 

“In a word…. The South,” he tweeted. . . .

 

As Facing South reporter Olivia Paschal points out, the map makes more sense when viewed with the second map in the Times article in which it originally appeared, which showed that the Southern states in question had seen less travel than what was considered “normal.”

 

The Times story delves into this further: Southern municipalities and states have been slow to implement stay-at-home orders. But Southerners are traveling less. And the map doesn’t account for necessary travel, like to get groceries or seek medical care.

 

Barbaro didn’t mention that. “LOL rednecks” is an easier tweet.

 

There are nine states where more than 5 percent of the population has no car and no supermarket within a mile. North Carolina is one of them; the rest are also in the South.

 

Almost 28 million people in the South live in rural areas, almost half of the country’s rural population. Because of the spread, people in rural areas have the longest distances to travel to receive medical care. And the South, the sickest region in the United States, accounts for one in 10 COVID-19 deaths.

 

Some other facts Barbaro might have missed: The South has the lowest median household income of any region in the U.S; nine of the 10 states with the highest poverty levels are from the South.

 

The South also has the biggest minority population of any region.

 

A quick Google search reveals that Michael Barbaro grew up in Connecticut, attended one of the oldest country day schools in the country, and went to Yale University. He got a job at The Washington Post straight out of college and shifted to The New York Times shortly after that.

 

So let me offer a real-life example: My house growing up was in downtown Mount Airy, and the closest Food Lion was 1.3 miles away. If my family needed more than food, Walmart was 4.3 miles away. If we had to go to the ER, it was 2.2 miles. For folks who live farther out, the shortest distance you can travel is at least two miles.

 

I promise you, Michael Barbaro, they aren’t driving for the hell of it.

 

It’s as if Michael Barbaro is some sort of elitist twatwaffle. But yeah, those dumb southerners don’t know how to practice social distancing like these New Yorkers:

In a word . . . NYC.

 

 

 

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[B-Man]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

#JOURNALISM: 

 

After mocking Trump for promoting hydroxychloroquine, journalists acknowledge it might treat coronavirus. 

 

“Journalists and top Democrats have beaten a similarly hasty retreat from their previous claims that Trump’s ban on travel from China was both xenophobic and ineffective. But media outlets’ misinformation on hydroxychloroquine was unique because it involved not simply policy disagreements but also suggestive medical advice and directives that could have dissuaded some from seeking certain treatments.”

 

The press lied, people died. But no responsibility, and no consequences.

 

 

 

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[B-Man]

Brit Hume

@brithume

 

Reporters love to say it’s the role of the press to hold the government accountable.

 

The idea gives them power.

 

But it’s the role of the voters and their elected representatives to hold government accountable.

 

It’s the job of the press to provide the public information.

 

 

 

AMEN !

[SoCal Deek]

16 minutes ago, B-Man said:

Brit Hume

@brithume

 

Reporters love to say it’s the role of the press to hold the government accountable.

 

The idea gives them power.

 

But it’s the role of the voters and their elected representatives to hold government accountable.

 

It’s the job of the press to provide the public information.

 

 

 

AMEN !

Double Amen! These days the media asks questions to CONFIRM and SUPPORT their preestablished opinion laced narrative. They’re supposed to be relaying answers that REPORT what’s actually happening.

[Albwan]

2 hours ago, B-Man said:

Brit Hume

@brithume

 

Reporters love to say it’s the role of the press to hold the government accountable.

 

The idea gives them power.

 

But it’s the role of the voters and their elected representatives to hold government accountable.

 

It’s the job of the press to provide the public information.

 

 

 

AMEN !

whoa whoa whoa...lets go easy on the press...they have so much on their plate..

needing to appease their globalist bosses, their democrat bosses, and in addition, need

to apply ointment to soothe butt hurt feelings of millions....

Not an easy job.

Edited April 4, 2020 by Albwan

[billsfan1959]

On 4/3/2020 at 12:46 PM, Deranged Rhino said:

 

 

I'm going out on a limb here; however, I'm going to say that it would literally be impossible for Jared Kushner to get us all killed...

[Deranged Rhino]

 

They think their readers are REAL dumb. 

[SoCal Deek]

2 hours ago, Deranged Rhino said:

 

They think their readers are REAL dumb. 

The sad part is that this douche at the Post doesn’t even realize the irony that Trump actually tanked his own economy by recommending the shuttering of businesses all over the nation!  Classless ass! 

[Pine Barrens Mafia]

2 hours ago, Deranged Rhino said:

 

They think their readers are REAL dumb. 

 

Correction: they KNOW their readers are.

[B-Man]

 

 

QUESTIONING CORONAVIRUS ORIGINS IS NOT A CONSPIRACY:

 

“It’s not a good look for media outlets to again fall in line with the narrative coming out of China, a country whose officials have also accused the US Army of engineering the virus and releasing it into Wuhan.

 

Twitter refused to ban those officials, and there was no mass snark tweeting or fact checking done by the same journalists who called Cotton a crackpot.

 

Maybe that’s because it’s easier for members of the American media to attack a senator from a party that most of them ideologically oppose on a personal level. Or maybe it is something much more nefarious — that the media companies who sign the paychecks are much more invested in China and therefore willing to cede editorial standards in their coverage to the CCP.

 

Maybe that’s also worth looking into.”

 

 

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[B-Man]

ATTENTION CITIZENS!

I’ve been watching the daily White House coronavirus task force briefings, but they make for difficult viewing.

 

I don’t think there are more than two reporters seeking to elicit information either from the president, the vice president, or the knowledgeable experts sharing the platform with them at any given briefing.

 

The briefings are on average a disgusting spectacle insofar as the media refuse to play any role other than the fool for Trump.

 

 

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[B-Man]

The Media Owe Senator Tom Cotton an Apology. 

 

“One of the biggest issues people have with the mainstream press these days is that some of its members are so insulated that they end up buying into and promoting false narratives without actually checking these narratives’ veracity. That seems to be exactly what happened in mid February, when major outlets overwhelmingly smeared Senator Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) as a conspiracy theorist for asking legitimate questions about the origins of the current COVID-19 pandemic.”

 

 

The process is this: A Republican said it, and it’s not like what all my friends are saying in unison, so it must be crazy.

 

 

 

 

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[B-Man]

 

[Buffalo_Gal]

A recap (for those unfamiliar)

 

 

 

 

 

[B-Man]

 

HOW LONG BEFORE TWITTER BANS JAMES WOODS AGAIN?

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited April 5, 2020 by B-Man

[B-Man]

 

[B-Man]

The AP begins revising history to attack Trump

by Carol Brown

Original Article

 

The media are not only rude and confrontational at press briefings, but they’re also re-writing history about how and when information on the virus came to light. Facts don’t matter. There is only one goal: Get Trump. Toward that end, manipulating timelines has become quite popular as evidenced most recently in this AP report:

 

More at the linK

 

 

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[Buffalo_Gal]

 

[B-Man]

 

 

OMG SHOCKER! NYT writes column dragging China for being soulless over COVID …

JUST kidding, they dragged Trump

 

 

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[Buffalo_Gal]

CBS again (the thread documents her fraud):
 

 

[B-Man]

 

#JOURNALISM: 

 

How Misinformation About the U.S. Needing ‘1 Million Ventilators’ Spread. 

 

“The error conflates the total number of ventilators required with the number of patients who may need the use of a ventilator over the course of the pandemic. How the error spread is a cautionary if convoluted tale.” The press has also done with ventilators what they accuse Trump of doing with chloroquine, turning a sometimes-useful treatment into a talisman.

 

Only about 50% of patients on ventilators are surviving at best. And coronavirus aside, ventilators are dangerous: If you put a bunch of healthy people on ventilators for ten days, a nontrivial number would die. If you need a ventilator and don’t get one you will almost certainly die; if you need a ventilator and do get one, well, you might not die. Securing enough ventilators is part of dealing with this epidemic, but it’s not the only part, or even the most important part.

 

 

 

The thing to remember about these people is that they’re not very bright, and they don’t think that you are either.

 

 

 

 

Actually, it’s gone for as little as 89 cents per gallon recently. No, that’s not the average. But then, nobody said it was.

 

I’ve also seen journalists with an IQ under 90, but that’s not the … well, hell, who really knows?

 

 

 

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[B-Man]

Yet CBS had a producer add music, captions, etc to it without even vetting this fraud. Good job guys.

[B-Man]

 

[Uncle Joe]

31 minutes ago, Buffalo_Gal said:

CBS again (the thread documents her fraud):
 

 

And the tweet in the pandemic thread showed her trying to be an IG model in a swimsuit.
I cannot unsee that ?

[/dev/null]

24 minutes ago, B-Man said:

Yet CBS had a producer add music, captions, etc to it without even vetting this fraud. Good job guys.

 

Thats because MSM producers aren't as concerned with facts, details, and truth as they are with advancing their Narrative

[Deranged Rhino]

4 minutes ago, /dev/null said:

 

Thats because MSM producers aren't as concerned with facts, details, and truth as they are with advancing their Narrative

 

[Deranged Rhino]

 

 

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Hard pass. 

 

 

[B-Man]

 

 

 

 

It literally does not say that.

 

 

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[IDBillzFan]

1 hour ago, Buffalo_Gal said:

CBS again (the thread documents her fraud):

 

So brutally irresponsible.

 

The rush to get headlines is a major problem for the media. You would think they would have learned their lessons with Smollett, and Duke University, and the kid who stood up to the Indian, etc. The desire to create fear and push a narrative is SO much more important to the media than any amount of accountability.

 

But no.

 

Fear first. Apologies later.

[B-Man]

 

[IDBillzFan]

46 minutes ago, Deranged Rhino said:

Hard pass. 

 

 

 

[/dev/null]

12 minutes ago, IDBillzFan said:

 

 

 

[SoCal Deek]

29 minutes ago, B-Man said:

 

Couldn’t agree more! NYC lost 3,000 in one day on 9/11. We didn’t shut down restaurants in Omaha!

[GG]

10 minutes ago, SoCal Deek said:

Couldn’t agree more! NYC lost 3,000 in one day on 9/11. We didn’t shut down restaurants in Omaha!

 

Not the right analogy.  

 

After some people did something with airplanes, the entire airline industry was grounded, because no one new if more people would do something.

 

In this case, you're preventatively shutting places down to slow the spread

[SoCal Deek]

2 minutes ago, GG said:

 

Not the right analogy.  

 

After some people did something with airplanes, the entire airline industry was grounded, because no one new if more people would do something.

 

In this case, you're preventatively shutting places down to slow the spread

It’s of course Hard to find an analogy that fits this circumstance perfectly but it’s close in terms of scale and to our national reaction, and it’s impact was also NYC centric. We had no idea where the next terrorist would strike but yet I was on an airplane in California about three days later. It was a quiet flight but I was still on it. 

[Deranged Rhino]

The market must be doing well as the DOW tracker isn't on every channel's chyron. 

[Foxx]

2 hours ago, Deranged Rhino said:

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Hard pass. 

 

 

to include NLP stills to get the sheep to accept ever more draconian measures to control them.

Edited April 6, 2020 by Foxx

[Deranged Rhino]