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CNN, MSNBC Use Graphics to Fact-Check Trump, Not Clinton

posted by n1 on Saturday August 13 2016, @08:19AM   Printer-friendly
from the she-said-he-said-he-didn't-(he-did) dept.

MrPlow writes:

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

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  • (Score: 2) by davester666 on Saturday August 13 2016, @07:24PM

    by davester666 (155) on Saturday August 13 2016, @07:24PM (#387590)

    Except that isn't happening AT ALL. It's primarily Trump saying crazy stuff, then everyone and their dog laughing at it. Then a Trump apologist has to claim it was taken out of context or harmless exaggeration and everyone is against him.

    If he were to get in, he would be such a train wreck. Between blatantly insulting the leaders of other countries (and their families and their staff and everyone in the country) and speaking without thinking in a race to get ahead of the other person then having to walk it back when someone carefully explains how what he said was completely stupid...it should be great fun to see how he manages to negotiate "awesome" treaties to replace the ones he rips up. And get Congress and the Senate to follow his lead to do what he wants.

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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 14 2016, @12:34AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 14 2016, @12:34AM (#387667)

    https://wikileaks.org/dnc-emails/emailid/20280 [wikileaks.org]

    Yeah total fabrication... The DNC is basically fully outed as manipulating the media and I quote "pay to play".