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posted by n1 on Saturday August 13 2016, @08:19AM   Printer-friendly
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


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  • (Score: 2) by gallondr00nk on Sunday August 14 2016, @10:54AM

    by gallondr00nk (392) on Sunday August 14 2016, @10:54AM (#387819)

    I enjoy bashing Trump as much as the next person, but it seems pretty obvious to me what he means isn't that Obama signed some sort of ISIS declaration of intent and held a press conference, but that US Foreign Policy has contributed massively to its rise. I don't think that's such a ridiculous statement.

    I think he's picking the wrong target. ISIS's MVP wasn't Obama, it was US actions going back decades, culminating in Bush jnr. and Tony Blair crashing through the middle east pretending that they were on some moral crusade.

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