Mass exodus at the State Department
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Quote:Because I hate lies. The so-called "criticisms" of Trump are mostly fake news ... yanno, like the "WMD" scare. They're mean to drive a response in most people, NOT to bring anyone the truth.
Curious - why are you so sensitive to any criticism of Trump when you only support 20% of what he stands for?
Didn't you read THUGR'S post about FAKE NEWS?
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16 Fake News Stories Reporters Have Run Since Trump Won
Daniel Payne
February 6, 2017
Since at least Donald Trump’s election, our media have been in the grip of an astonishing, self-inflicted crisis. Despite Trump’s constant railing against the American press, there is no greater enemy of the American media than the American media. They did this to themselves.
We are in the midst of an epidemic of fake news. There is no better word to describe it than “epidemic,” insofar as it fits the epidemiological model from the Centers for Disease Control: this phenomenon occurs when “an agent and susceptible hosts are present in adequate numbers, and the agent can be effectively conveyed from a source to the susceptible hosts.”
The “agent” in this case is hysteria over Trump’s presidency, and the “susceptible hosts” are a slipshod, reckless, and breathtakingly gullible media class that spread the hysteria around like—well, like a virus.
It is difficult to adequately sum up the breadth of this epidemic, chiefly because it keeps growing: day after day, even hour after hour, the media continue to broadcast, spread, promulgate, publicize, and promote fake news on an industrial scale. It has become a regular part of our news cycle, not distinct from or extraneous to it but a part of it, embedded within the news apparatus as a spoke is embedded in a bicycle wheel.
Whenever you turn on a news station, visit a news website, or check in on a journalist or media personality on Twitter or Facebook, there is an excellent chance you will be exposed to fake news. It is rapidly becoming an accepted part of the way the American media are run.
How we will get out of this is anyone’s guess. We might not get out of it, not so long as Trump is president of these United States. We may be up for four—maybe eight!—long years of authentic fake news media hysteria. It is worth cataloging at least a small sampling of the hysteria so far. Only when we fully assess the extent of the media’s collapse into ignominious ineptitude can we truly begin to reckon with it.
Since Trump’s election, here’s just a small sampling of fake news that our media and our journalist class have propagated.
Early November: Spike in Transgender Suicide Rates
After Trump’s electoral victory on November 8, rumors began circulating that multiple transgender teenagers had killed themselves in response to the election results. There was no basis to these rumors. Nobody was able to confirm them at the time, and nobody has been able to confirm in the three months since Trump was elected.
Nevertheless, the claim spread far and wide: Guardian writer and editor-at-large of Out Zach Stafford tweeted the rumor, which was retweeted more than 13,000 times before he deleted it. He later posted a tweet explaining why he deleted his original viral tweet; his explanatory tweet was shared a total of seven times. Meanwhile, PinkNews writer Dominic Preston wrote a report on the rumors, which garnered more than 12,000 shares on Facebook.
At Mic, Matthew Rodriguez wrote about the unsubstantiated allegations. His article was shared more than 55,000 times on Facebook. Urban legend debunker website Snopes wrote a report on the rumors and listed them as “unconfirmed” (rather than “false”). Snopes’s sources were two Facebook posts, since deleted, that offered no helpful information regarding the location, identity, or circumstances of any of the suicides. The Snopes report was shared 19,000 times.
At Reason, writer Elizabeth Nolan Brown searched multiple online databases to try to determine the identities or even the existence of the allegedly suicidal youtNOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Quote:DOOD, I have long decried people's IRRATIONALITY. What does rationality mean???
I read your post here and I have to laugh. You're against the law sort of. That's followed up by your fallacy of relative privation. Your attempts to suggest that what goes on in Russia should be ignored because there are more important problems in the world. Even though the issues you list are completely unrelated to the subject under discussion.
It means TO RATIO. To understand WHICH IS BIGGER AND WHICH IS SMALLER.
So, do you? Understand which is bigger and which is smaller?
Quote:Prove it. Bring me some quotes of mine where I'm "outraged" about something trivial (except when I lose my temper at someone on the board). I look at the number of people killed, maimed, or impoverished as my basic metric of what's important and who is doing wrong .... or, who is doing MORE wrong than someone else.
I read your post here and I have to laugh because we have years of threads started by you. Threads where you are outraged about things going on in the world that don't rise to the level of what just transpired in Russia
UNLIKE YOU, I'm not a "moral relativist". You don't get a "pass" from me because you claim to have had good intentions while you promoted killing hundreds of thousands of people, or because you claim that all of those killings were "by accident". After having killed a few hundred thousand "collateral damage" you don't get that excuse anymore.
But I save my criticism FOR US, because I feel responsibility for the harm that we do. Don't you?
BTW- Thanks for the post on fake news, it was enlightening!
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"Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor"- William Blake
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Quote:Or in the name of 'American values', or 'freedom' (though I suppose you could say dead people have been freed, as long as you're not too picky about what they've been 'freed' from).
You don't get a "pass" from me because you claim to have had good intentions while you promoted killing hundreds of thousands of people, or because you claim that all of those killings were "by accident".
How did your beloved 'democratic' party fuck up so badly?
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UNLIKE YOU, I'm not a "moral relativist". You don't get a "pass" from me because you claim to have had good intentions while you promoted killing hundreds of thousands of people, or because you claim that all of those killings were "by accident". After having killed a few hundred thousand "collateral damage" you don't get that excuse anymore.
What is gods name are you ranting about? What people, where when. Pull yourself together. Talk about subjective bullshit.
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I read your post here and I have to laugh because we have years of threads started by you. Threads where you are outraged about things going on in the world that don't rise to the level of what just transpired in Russia- THUGR
Prove it. Bring me some quotes of mine where I'm "outraged" about something trivial (except when I lose my temper at someone on the board)-SIGNY
So far.... crickets.
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"Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor"- William Blake
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What just transpired in Russia?
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
What just transpired in Russia?
And if they're not getting ready to bomb us ... personally, I really, truly don't care.
How did your beloved 'democratic' party fuck up so badly?
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Do you trust a 'well-established source'? How about a 'reliable reporter'? Or 'on the ground media'? You might find them here - yes, the BBC, NYTimes, WaPo, AP, and Reuters (to name a few), and Twitter and Facebook, and luminaries like Paul Krugman - that THUGGER and 'G' would call 'good sources' - have all been caught pushing FAKE NEWS.
Stripped down to dates, events and 'sources', this is what the article looks like:
November 22: The Tri-State Election Hacking Conspiracy Theory
SOURCE
New York Magazine
VENUE
Facebook/ Twitter
Politico, Eric Geller
Reuters, Dustin Volz
MSNBC, Joy Reid
New York Times, Paul Krugman
December 1: The 27-Cent Foreclosure
SOURCE
Politico
VENUE
Facebook/ Twitter
The New York Times, Steven Rattner
NBC News, Brad Jaffy
AP, David Beard
many others
January 20: Nancy Sinatra’s Complaints about the Inaugural Ball
SOURCE
CNN
January 20: The Nonexistent Climate Change Website ‘Purge’
SOURCE
New York Times website, Coral Davenport
VENUE
Facebook
January 20: The Great MLK Jr. Bust Controversy
SOURCE
Time reporter Zeke Miller
VENUE
Twitter
January 20: Betsy DeVos, Grizzly Fighter
SOURCE
accurately reported by NBC News
SOURCE of FAKE NEWS
Slate
The Daily Beast
CNN
ThinkProgress
Vox
The Week
BuzzFeed
January 26: The ‘Resignations’ At the State Department
SOURCE
Washington Post, Josh Rogin
VENUE
Facebook/ Twitter
Washington Post, Anne Applebaum
Wired
The Guardian
Washington Post
Bloomberg
ABC
Foreign Policy
Vox
other publications
PERSONS
Washington Post, Josh Rogin
January 27: The Photoshopped Hands Affair
SOURCE
Observer, Dana Schwartz
VENUE
Facebook/ Twitter
January 29: The Reuters Account Hoax
SOURCE
Daily Beast (Aapparently the Daily Beast didn’t bother to take the most elementary step and check the original. If they had they would have realized it was a Reuters PARODY.)
January 31: The White House-SCOTUS Twitter Mistake
SOURCE
CNN, Senior White House Correspondent Jeff Zeleny
VENUE
Twitter
January 31: The Big Travel Ban Lie
SOURCE
Fox affiliate
VENUE
Facebook
Huffington Post
PERSONS
Christopher Hooks
Gideon Resnick
Daniel Dale
Sarah Silverman
Blake Hounshell
Brian Beutler
Garance Franke-Ruta
Keith Olbermann
Matthew Yglesias
Farhad Manjoo
February 1: POTUS Threatens to Invade Mexico
SOURCE
Yahoo News
VENUE
Twitter/ Facebook
Time
ABC News
BuzzFeed, Jon Passantino
ThinkProgress, Judd Legum
BBC, Anthony Zurcher
Vox, Matt Yglesias
Politico, Shane Goldmacher
Michael Ian Black
Jon Favreau
February 2: Easing the Russian Sanctions
SOURCE
NBC News, national correspondent Peter Alexander
VENUE
Twitter
CNBC, Jacob Pramuk
CBS News
New York Daily News
February 2: Renaming Black History Month
SOURCE
TMZ
BET
February 2: The House of Representatives’ Gun Control Measures
SOURCE
Associated Press
VENUE
Twitter
Politico, Kyle Cheney
CNBC
Yahoo News
CNN
Washington Post
NPR
How did your beloved 'democratic' party fuck up so badly?
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:
I read your post here and I have to laugh because we have years of threads started by you. Threads where you are outraged about things going on in the world that don't rise to the level of what just transpired in Russia- THUGR
Prove it. Bring me some quotes of mine where I'm "outraged" about something trivial (except when I lose my temper at someone on the board)-SIGNY
So far.... crickets.
You hear crickets SIG. Everyone else just nodded their heads in agreement.
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In a rush to judgement some mistakes were made in the press. I pointed them out here ( posted the list ) first, because I deal in the truth. You and SIG " seek out " bullshit news to promote your agenda of lies and disinformation. There is a difference between a mistake and something done intentionally. You wouldn't admit it, but there is a difference between this and what you do.
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Originally posted by 1kiki:
Do you trust a 'well-established source'? How about a 'reliable reporter'? Or 'on the ground media'? You might find them here - yes, the BBC, NYTimes, WaPo, AP, and Reuters (to name a few), and Twitter and Facebook, and luminaries like Paul Krugman - that THUGGER and 'G' would call 'good sources' - have all been caught pushing FAKE NEWS.
Stripped down to dates, events and 'sources', this is what the article looks like:
November 22: The Tri-State Election Hacking Conspiracy Theory
SOURCE
New York Magazine
VENUE
Facebook/ Twitter
Politico, Eric Geller
Reuters, Dustin Volz
MSNBC, Joy Reid
New York Times, Paul Krugman
December 1: The 27-Cent Foreclosure
SOURCE
Politico
VENUE
Facebook/ Twitter
The New York Times, Steven Rattner
NBC News, Brad Jaffy
AP, David Beard
many others
January 20: Nancy Sinatra’s Complaints about the Inaugural Ball
SOURCE
CNN
January 20: The Nonexistent Climate Change Website ‘Purge’
SOURCE
New York Times website, Coral Davenport
VENUE
January 20: The Great MLK Jr. Bust Controversy
SOURCE
Time reporter Zeke Miller
VENUE
January 20: Betsy DeVos, Grizzly Fighter
SOURCE
accurately reported by NBC News
SOURCE of FAKE NEWS
Slate
The Daily Beast
CNN
ThinkProgress
Vox
The Week
BuzzFeed
January 26: The ‘Resignations’ At the State Department
SOURCE
Washington Post, Josh Rogin
VENUE
Facebook/ Twitter
Washington Post, Anne Applebaum
Wired
The Guardian
Washington Post
Bloomberg
ABC
Foreign Policy
Vox
other publications
PERSONS
Washington Post, Josh Rogin
January 27: The Photoshopped Hands Affair
SOURCE
Observer, Dana Schwartz
VENUE
Facebook/ Twitter
January 29: The Reuters Account Hoax
SOURCE
Daily Beast (Aapparently the Daily Beast didn’t bother to take the most elementary step and check the original. If they had they would have realized it was a Reuters PARODY.)
January 31: The White House-SCOTUS Twitter Mistake
SOURCE
CNN, Senior White House Correspondent Jeff Zeleny
VENUE
January 31: The Big Travel Ban Lie
SOURCE
Fox affiliate
VENUE
Huffington Post
PERSONS
Christopher Hooks
Gideon Resnick
Daniel Dale
Sarah Silverman
Blake Hounshell
Brian Beutler
Garance Franke-Ruta
Keith Olbermann
Matthew Yglesias
Farhad Manjoo
February 1: POTUS Threatens to Invade Mexico
SOURCE
Yahoo News
VENUE
Twitter/ Facebook
Time
ABC News
BuzzFeed, Jon Passantino
ThinkProgress, Judd Legum
BBC, Anthony Zurcher
Vox, Matt Yglesias
Politico, Shane Goldmacher
Michael Ian Black
Jon Favreau
February 2: Easing the Russian Sanctions
SOURCE
NBC News, national correspondent Peter Alexander
VENUE
CNBC, Jacob Pramuk
CBS News
New York Daily News
February 2: Renaming Black History Month
SOURCE
TMZ
BET
February 2: The House of Representatives’ Gun Control Measures
SOURCE
Associated Press
VENUE
Politico, Kyle Cheney
CNBC
Yahoo News
CNN
Washington Post
NPR
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