Stephen Miller:
The mainstream media continues to freak out over the spread of “fake news” on Facebook and other social media platforms such as Twitter and reddit. Hillary Clinton’s late campaign thinks this is a problem.
The Democrat party seems to think people with Facebook accounts are to blame for Hillary’s decision to ignore crucial swing states in the final weeks of the campaign, that likely cost her the election.
But the media hasn’t bothered to ask why such sites gained traction. Our media has cultivated false news for years. Understandably, people stopped caring about the “journalistic ethics” the media claim to possess.
The CBS morning show, hosted by Charlie Rose, recently ran a segment on the rise of fake news, based on a story posted on BuzzFeed. The website claimed that Facebook users shared more “fake” news stories than “real” news stories by the end of the election.
Was the story true? Timothy Carney from the Washington Examiner found holes in Buzzfeed’s model which thus complicated the narrative BuzzFeed was trying to present. On examination, Buzzfeed had ignored real statistics to present their own version of a narrative, not the facts.
On the same CBS show, Charlie Rose interviewed former “fake news” pundit and left-wing icon Jon Stewart about the election. During his Daily Show years, Stewart styled himself as both a serious pundit and a comedian, allowing him to walk the line between fake news and satire.
The show’s set, and Stewart’s demeanor, mirrored that of a network news program. His cast did on-location interviews, which were often heavily edited to present their own liberal point of view. But long after Stewart’s show ended, he is still being propped up as an important voice in journalism.
Jon Stewart, “The Most Trusted Name in Fake News,” will quit The Daily Show this year: http://t.co/K3FqCFEdwd pic.twitter.com/5HOmV71Yxk — CNN International (@cnni) February 11, 2015
Jon Stewart topped a 2009 TIME poll asking who was the most trusted newscaster in America http://t.co/6Vcooh7G3X pic.twitter.com/wDBZWuUUCP — TIME (@TIME) August 7, 2015
Shortly before Stewart filmed his final Daily Show segment in August 2015, the Washington Post published a piece lamenting that “many millennials are about to lose their most-trusted news source.”
CNN’s Brian Stelter has made exposing fake news sites a bit of a pet project. He should start with his own network, along with its mainstream competitors. Stelter himself recently discussed the election with disgraced former CBS New anchor Dan Rather, who was forced to resign after presenting forged documents about George W. Bush’s service in the National Guard as legitimate news.
Like with Katie Couric and the big lie about guns and gun owners from UNDER THE GUN no different then NBC program DATELINE lied about GM trucks exploding in flames the fact NBC rigged the whole thing just like editing the RODNEY KING film just like Katie Couric did with UNDER THE GUN the facts is the main stream news media are like the horns of a steer a point here a point there and a lot of bull in between
Unemployment 5%.
Keep your doctor.
Save $2500/year on health care.
Red line in Syria.
No more need for coal.
Cops are all racist.
I could go on for another 300,000 words.
MSM = fake news.
Just one more: Hillary won the popular vote.
The corrupt liberal media worrying about fake news… that’s rich.
The corrupt liberal media? You’ve pretty much got that backwards.
Megyn Kelly: Pro-Trump TV Hosts Colluded With Him Beforehand To Appear Tough.
The media made this guy president. He got more camera time than any other candidate in the history of mass media, and nobody challenged the crap his was saying until it was way, way too late.
@Greg:
Riiiiight, the media darling, Trump. Is that all you have? The media went after Trump because of ratings, not because they were promoting him to be president. What planet are you living on now post election?
@Greg:
Yes, the hilarious thing about this is that you are RIGHT. But, not in the method you imagine. The corrupt liberal media gave Trump a lot of coverage (initially, but when the tactic was backfiring, they reverted back to interpreting what he was saying and doing so it was more palatable to liberal ears), wanting to have him imploding on camera. Instead, they spread his message, which resonated with America, except for the elitist, government-dependent enclaves in large, liberal, decadent cities, and caused Trump’s popularity to grow. By the time the leftist media realized they had lost control, it was too late and their heavy-handed pro-Hillary propaganda only reinforced the thinking person’s perception of the media as being a liberal tool.
You liberals got a little too arrogant and confident with all the weapons you had at your disposal. But, you forgot one little thing; while you control all the propaganda, you cannot control the reality and THAT is what propelled Trump to VICTORY.
FAKE NEWS:
GloriaAllred Paid $500,000 Ex-Apprentice SummerZervos To FALSELY Accuse Trump.
Press fumes as Trump breaks tradition
“F” these corrupt propagandists. Trump has to broadcast, because the MSM have proven that they will lie their asses off to damage Republicans.