The boy who cried wolf

[JTsyo]

The media needs to stop exaggerating on all these Trump stories. I understand they are fighting for the clicks but they are going to burn out the public at this rate. Already when I click on a story I'm thinking about how they might have misrepresented the facts. Reign in the hyperbole and just report the actual story.

 

[IronWing]

Or Trump could just stop lying.

 

[brycejones]

The media needs to stop exaggerating on all these Trump stories. I understand they are fighting for the clicks but they are going to burn out the public at this rate. Already when I click on a story I'm thinking about how they might have misrepresented the facts. Reign in the hyperbole and just report the actual story.

How about some specifics?

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

The media needs to stop exaggerating on all these Trump stories. I understand they are fighting for the clicks but they are going to burn out the public at this rate. Already when I click on a story I'm thinking about how they might have misrepresented the facts. Reign in the hyperbole and just report the actual story.

Examples of what you are referring to would be helpful. The problem is that most things which can properly be attributed are in fact real. Shutting down communications, bizarre inflation of numbers at the inauguration, blaming illegals for Hillary winning the popular vote, and the list goes on.

So what widely reported stories are untrue?

 

[brycejones]

Or Trump could just stop lying.

If only a leopard could change its spots.

 

[PottedMeat]

he'd do better if he went the 'never tell the same lie twice' route

 

[HomerJS]

The media needs to stop exaggerating on all these Trump stories. I understand they are fighting for the clicks but they are going to burn out the public at this rate. Already when I click on a story I'm thinking about how they might have misrepresented the facts. Reign in the hyperbole and just report the actual story.

One example where the media exaggerated, lets say since the election.

 

[JTsyo]

Examples of what you are referring to would be helpful. The problem is that most things which can properly be attributed are in fact real. Shutting down communications, bizarre inflation of numbers at the inauguration, blaming illegals for Hillary winning the popular vote, and the list goes on.

So what widely reported stories are untrue?

It's not that it's not true but the fact that these stories don't matter. For example him watching too much TV. Or even the inauguration numbers. We don't need to be blasted with news about trump or by the time there's an actual story to be broken people will be burned out.

 

[bshole]

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[Jaskalas]

Signal to noise has not improved, it's true. The public is inundated with raw Trump hatred.
Difficult to discern when he really does something terrible.

Does he have a conflict of interest on the pipelines? Who knows... let's talk crowd size!
Stay tuned for tomorrow's outrageous tweet!

 

[Homerboy]

It's not that it's not true but the fact that these stories don't matter. For example him watching too much TV. Or even the inauguration numbers. We don't need to be blasted with news about trump or by the time there's an actual story to be broken people will be burned out.

I dunno - I for one like to know when the President of my country and the leader of the free world is blatantly lying. Don't you? Even if it's in regards to something trivial.

That being said, maybe we're using the term "lying" incorrectly. A lie is only a lie if you know it's false and still say it. Maybe in Trump's case is just ignorance/stupidity/craziness? Neither option, lying or ignorance, is not very flattering though.

 

[sandorski]

The Press has to be careful of its' sources. Trump's penchant for Propaganda might try to undermine the Press's credibility by leaking False "controversy".

 

[VRAMdemon]

If only a leopard could change its spots.

Or..a sociopath will stop being, so, well, sociopathic?

 

[brycejones]

Or..a sociopath will stop being, so, well, sociopathic?

Yeah that as well

 

[MomentsofSanity]

I watch all this bullshit about alternative facts, the conspiracy nonsense, the lies. It baffled me. Then suddenly today I remembered that Steve Bannon is Trumps top adviser. Then it all made sense. The White House is literally become Breitbart.

 

[nickqt]

(Distractions + Uninformed Electorate) x BothSidesDoIt™ Media = Authoritarianism

 

[Jhhnn]

Trump played the Media for chumps all through the campaign. The worm has turned.

He doesn't have Hillary to kick around any more. He has to stand on his own & isn't handling it very well so far.

 

[soundforbjt]

I heard

I watch all this bullshit about alternative facts, the conspiracy nonsense, the lies. It baffled me. Then suddenly today I remembered that Steve Bannon is Trumps top adviser. Then it all made sense. The White House is literally become Breitbart.

that he's hired two more guys from Breitbart for his WH staff.

 

[soundforbjt]

nvm

 

[MooseNSquirrel]

Examples of what you are referring to would be helpful. The problem is that most things which can properly be attributed are in fact real. Shutting down communications, bizarre inflation of numbers at the inauguration, blaming illegals for Hillary winning the popular vote, and the list goes on.

So what widely reported stories are untrue?

Honestly my favorite is the China climate change one. Seriously, can we stop electing old farts?

 

[HomerJS]

Fox News said Trump had a mandate. I would characterize that as a gross exaggeration.

I mean the news media

 

[HomerJS]

The Press has to be careful of its' sources. Trump's penchant for Propaganda might try to undermine the Press's credibility by leaking False "controversy".

Or if the press makes a mistake Trump and his minions will conflate it into "see everything the press say is wrong" Example was the MLK bust thing. Reporter made a mistake yet spokespeople harped on it attempting to undermine everything the media says.

 

[feralkid]

Honestly my favorite is the China climate change one. Seriously, can we stop electing old farts?

It's not so much his age as it is his pathology.

 

[MooseNSquirrel]

Well certainly the arrogant stupidity doesnt help either.

At least Governor Brown bucks the trend.