Dan GillmorAug 20, 2024

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.

Show threadSpockoAug 20, 2024
@dangillmor
Also, when they FINALLY ask him a question to clarify something, they let him lie again. Like this response when he was asked about his accusation that Harris used #AI to increase the crowd size.
Show threadJill DominguezAug 20, 2024
@spocko @dangillmor You can’t exactly call Fox “News” journalism, but every news source does the same. It’s infuriating.
Show threadSpockoAug 21, 2024
@jadag88 @dangillmor I've worked preparing both executives and politicans to talk to the press. The methods that are used to frustrate the press can be taught. The pressures that are used by Trump to get the press to not ask further question have been used by others. Trump is special in how he uses conscious lying all the time.
Also, he uses vauge answers to questions so he won't be pinned down. "When will you release your policy?" In 2 weeks.
Show threadJill Dominguez

@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.

#BullDurham #InterviewTips

Aug 21, 2024 at 2:20pmWeb