SoylentNews is people
SoylentNews
from the she-said-he-said-he-didn't-(he-did) dept.
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, Informative) by aristarchus on Saturday August 13 2016, @05:25PM
No issues with the submission, or the summary, just the source. We should always remember that just calling yourself a journalist or a news organization does not make it so. A lot of Soylentils like to have a lot of varied sources for news, and that is a good thing. But some are not sources of news, the are fronts for agitprop, disinformation, titillation, or worse. I would suggest that the eds stay away, if possible, from articles from Fox, Breitbart, Politico, Huffington, Washington Times, American Military News, Washington Beacon, and the Lyndon LaRouche Newsletter, New York Daily News, and the Daily Mail.
(Score: 3, Funny) by hemocyanin on Sunday August 14 2016, @02:01AM
Name a fair and reliable source? Every single MSM outlet is just a high end presstitute, from Fox right on down to from PBS/NPR. The sad fact is that about the only thing that can save America from Trump or Clinton, are random hackers dumping data -- there is virtually no other free press aside from black hats any more.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 14 2016, @03:44AM
Every other major news outlet was caught checking in with the Democrats to see if stories were OK to run and if interview questions were OK to ask. (see email leak) NBC, CBS, ABC, and CNN all did it. Only Fox wasn't corrupted.
So, if we are ranking them about trust, we have to place Fox at the top. You non-Fox people are missing things the Democrats would like to suppress. The only negative things you'll see about Democrats are the stories that are simply impossible to bury.
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Monday August 15 2016, @05:29AM
Only Fox wasn't corrupted.
It is so cute that you think that! Did you ever consider that the only reason Fox was not "corrupted" was that they already had been? Repeatedly? From the git go? Rupert F**ubg Murdock? Nixon's hit man Roger Ailes? Did you not see this coming? How stupid is it possible to be, and why are you it?