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Television news has long used graphics at the bottom of their screens to identify the people and places in their stories – but with the 2016 presidential race, two networks lately have been injecting analysis into them during their news reporting.
It started in June when Donald Trump denied having said Japan should have nuclear weapons. CNN inserted this snarky line in their chyron:
TRUMP: I NEVER SAID JAPAN SHOULD HAVE NUKES (HE DID)
[...] While fact-checking may or may not be a legitimate new use of the chyron, what is noticeable is a distinct absence of chyron fact-checking for various claims made by Clinton.
For instance, Clinton recently told Fox News' Chris Wallace that FBI Director James Comey had called her answers about her private email use as secretary of state "truthful" – he did not make such a sweeping statement.
Source: FoxNews
(Score: 5, Insightful) by jmorris on Saturday August 13 2016, @08:50AM
Yup, I saw that interview. It was truly wierd when she told that whopper. She didn't think Wallace would have the video of the FBI Director's testimony before Congress racked up and ready when he brought up the question? Where he says exactly the opposite of what she claimed? Where he said that, Yes she had classified info on the private server that was classified at the time, info that was marked classified, that she lied about every single aspect of the affair.
It wasn't a gotcha question, it was one of the most obvious and likely questions she would expect to get in a major Sunday morning show interview right as that story has been making headlines. It really raises the issue of whether she is mentally competent. Or simply knows that FNS viewers are a lost cause and the rest of the media will dutifully keep these facts hidden from the typical 'low info' voter until after the election is over. I'm not sure which is worse because she is probably right if she is assuming it doesn't matter.
(Score: 0, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 13 2016, @09:14AM
It was truly wierd
What would be quite truly strange was if jmorris could actually spell words correctly. That would be wired.
(Score: 5, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 13 2016, @02:25PM
> It really raises the issue of whether she is mentally competent.
Her problem is that complicated answers are not easily communicated in two or three sentences. Instead of just taking the simple road and saying "mea culpa" she tries to shoehorn a complex defense into a simplistic response. When 99.9% of the audience has no knowledge of the details beyond sound bites that ends up failing on all counts. However, her experience, with the dozens of fake scandals like whitewater, benghazi, travelgate, etc is that taking the simple "mea culpa" route doesn't work either -- it just gets exaggerated into yet more ammo to go after her. Knowing your posting history your immediate response will be "of course that's what happens, she deserves it!" which is exactly the point.
When she actually gets a chance to speak at length about a "scandal" she comes across as ultra competent. For example, when she testified for ~10 hours in front of congress in the last of the 8 (9?) benghazi investigations and totally wiped the floor with her interrogators.