return2ozmaTrump Demands Death Penalty for Reporters in Unhinged War Rant
peteySo I listened to it and heard nothing about death penalties for reporters. Am I missing something?
Quoting Trump’s post, the nugget of truth is from:
The story was knowingly FAKE and, in a certain way, you can say that those Media Outlets that generated it should be brought up on Charges for TREASON for the dissemination of false information!
Which they turned into “Demands Death Penalty” because DailyBeast is a tabloid.
TBH I’m sick of DailyBeast and Rawstory showing up in my Lemmy feed. I’d argue they violate this community’s “credible sources” rule.
Yeah no, the president saying people should be charged with something thats punishment is death or life in prison is exactly that… saying those journalists should be out to death or life in prison for what they have written.
WesDym@LifeInMultipleChoice Your sloppy, immature writing and sloppy reasoning are evidence of sloppy thinking, and sloppy argument. The attitute you're bringing to this is exactly the problem -- democracy by FEELINGS, instead of solid facts.
I know you won't understand why I'm permanently blocking you, but hopefully you'll take two or three seconds to at least think about it.
I owe absolutely nothing to anyone who insists on lazy or intellectually dishonest discourse.
It’s tough, because I don’t want to give him or the American justice system the benefit of the doubt, but I really hate the misrepresentation of this in the media. Charging someone with treason doesn’t mean they’ll be imprisoned or executed, it means they’ll be put on trial. If this story had addressed the potential for the president to bias the country against these reporters by calling personally for them to be charged with treason, I would be a lot less annoyed by the headline, but it’s inaccurate and they didn’t put any actual investigation into this piece.
It might be splitting hairs, but I really do wish for exhaustive Nuremberg style trials when I call this regime criminal, treasonous, and genocidal. I wouldn’t mourn if a few of them didn’t make it to trial, but I don’t want them to be able to take their secrets to the grave en masse.
I don’t think you’re splitting hair; you’re being consistent in your values, and journalistic integrity matters more to you than having your biais confirmed.
It doesn’t matter whether the target of this article is the best person in the world or the worst person in the world, their words are not being reported accurately.
I loathe everything Donald Trump stands for, but that doesn’t mean it’s okay to misrepresent what he says like that for engagement. There are more than enough appalling things the man does and says on a daily basis to not go that low.
Like someone above wrote, I don’t think daily beast articles have their place here.
No, they are just blind to context. It’s Trump. He is threatening a treason charge precisely because it carries a potential death penalty. He knows that, that’s why he’s making the threat, and he is vindictive enough to abuse the legal system to make an example of some poor scribbler.