Submitted via IRC for Runaway1956
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: 2) by n1 on Saturday August 13 2016, @02:29PM
You are right.
On the other side of that is.... Was the point of the Think Progress article?
The article I linked called the people 'fact checking' Trump 'heroes' for their efforts. The word Clinton doesn't even appear in a story from TP. I think that's a conspicuous absence in a story around the media fact checking one presidential candidate. They just couldn't find time to mention the competition and how that side has been affected by this type of reporting.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 13 2016, @03:45PM
> What was the point of the Think Progress article?
To report on what was happening. Not every story needs to have "two sides." When there is a hurricane in florida, the reporting doesn't also include the fact that the weather is great in california.
(Score: 2) by hemocyanin on Sunday August 14 2016, @02:07AM
Except there are two sides here and criticism of Clinton is almost totally absent. I'm the polar opposite of Runaway and rather than cruise Fox, I hit up the lefty site, like Mother Jones, Alternet, Nation of Change -- it's one long stream of silence on Clinton and "Trump is teh evil" 24/7. The media has almost nothing bad to say about Clinton despite here constant and repetitious lies, her horrid policies, her refusal to do real press conferences without pre-selected questions -- it's totally puke worthy. It's like everyone got so mesmerized by "bbbut Ruskies!!" that they forgot that contained in the latest Wikileaks dump, the presstitutes out there run their articles by the DNC before publishing, or if some commentator gets a little too honest, the DNC calls up the boss and puts an end to it. It's horseshit.