Big Journalism is engaged in a parody of fact checking at this point.
Trump gets ho-hum corrections -- often granularly parsed to give him endless benefits of the doubt -- and the fact-checkers don't even pretend to get to every lie.
Democrats get granular parsing, too. But the goal is to find falsehoods and never, ever give the benefit of the doubt.
Fact-checking is a sadly broken both-sides (even when one is lying) enterprise.
Not trying to dispute you here, because I agree with you. But a little curious is there are any recent examples (the past week) where this might be the case.
Thanks, I'm not on bluesky. This is helpful.
While the journalist from the Post probably didn't feel like they could print that Trump would surely lead another insurrection, they could have at least referenced what happened the last time he refused to accept.
Kudos to whoever created this meme.
#PolitiFact #Meme #Memes #Trump #Journalism #Media #Press #News
@spocko Your work on preparing people to talk to the press reminded me of this scene from Bull Durham—Crash Davis giving interview tips to Ebby Calvin LaLoosh.
This is a great point. Big corporate journalism is flailing. They are trying to co-opt all of the norms of journalism and pervert them to their goal of influencing the public through dis-information.
But we are on to them now. With every ham handed new attempt they just further demolish their credibility. What's left, much like Trump himself, is a tire old con with a tired old bag of tricks.
"No, he never said '2'. He's just said '1+1' every week for the past year."
From the Washington Post, by Amy Gardner:
“Donald Trump says he will refuse to accept the election result if he loses again,“ Biden said. But that’s not true. Trump just hasn’t said that he would accept. And he has previously said the only way he loses is if the Democrats cheat.
@briancs I'm German, so I can sefely mock US Politics. We still have democracy - ironically because US soldiers 80 years ago risked and many even lost their lifes to reinstall democracy here.
Now I see that MAGA-Volk with a dumbed-down version of FĂĽhrer and an at least as dumbed-down version of Fascism. And wonder If in "1000 years" I or my descendants need to reinstall democracy in the Amercan Reich.
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https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/episode/part-one-how-the-liberal-media-207359043/
An exploration on how journalism failed to oppose fascism in the run up to WW2, and the parallels to today.
"You cannot fact check your way out of fascism". And the idea "fascism is an existential threat to journalists, they have a right to defend themselves instead of play acting objectivity".
The couch joke may have done more good than a thousand fact checking exercises.
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Did Trump think we wouldn’t know that he wouldn’t accept?
Oh, for a sec I forgot how dumb is. How silly of me.
@dangillmor I’m no great expert on fact checking methodology but this from the BBC has a certain stench about it. A distinct lack of reference to Trump’s history in the analysis suggests a similar lack of critical thinking to the pro nazi press mentioned by others here. In Trump’s case previous actions speak.
Six Kamala Harris claims fact-checked https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c785n2n9334o
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