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

posted by n1 on Saturday August 13 2016, @08:19AM   
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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• Re:If We Give Them The Benefit Of The Doubt Re:If We Give Them The Benefit Of The Doubt (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 13 2016, @11:23PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 13 2016, @11:23PM (#387650)

  LBJ, Nixon, Carter, Regan, Bush, Clinton, Bush, and Obama.

  I see the pattern. They were all some of the best salesmen in the world, who wrote books (or got someone else to write) on how to 'kinda lie' to get others to their legwork.

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• Re:If We Give Them The Benefit Of The Doubt (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 15 2016, @02:37PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 15 2016, @02:37PM (#388191)

  It is different when certain people say a candidate will start WW3

  This time it isn't just a bunch of internet idiots saying a candidate will start WW3. It is people who have years of experience advising presidents and should know when their advice would be taken or not:

  50 G.O.P. Officials Warn Donald Trump Would Put Nation’s Security ‘at Risk’
  http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/09/us/politics/national-security-gop-donald-trump.html?_r=0 [nytimes.com]

  There is a difference between
  1) a mindless party supporter saying x candidate will start WW3
  2) people who have run the CIA, advised presidents, and hold high political offices and have a very real risk of hurting their reputation

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