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The guardian reports on a sobering event in Washington DC.
US police have arrested a man wielding an assault rifle who entered a pizza restaurant that was the target of fake news reports it was operating a child abuse ring led by Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and her top campaign aide.
[...] The suspect entered the restaurant and pointed a gun at a restaurant employee, who fled and notified authorities, police said. The man then discharged the weapon inside the restaurant. There were no injuries.
[...] [Police] said the suspect during an interview with investigators revealed that he came to the establishment to "self-investigate" Pizzagate, the police statement said. Pizzagate is a baseless conspiracy, which falsely claims Clinton and her campaign chief John Podesta were running a child sex ring from the restaurant's backrooms.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Thexalon on Tuesday December 06 2016, @03:36PM
There is actually evidence of that: Trump received more media airtime than any other candidate, including Hillary Clinton. For example, one analysis showed he was getting about 4 times as much coverage during the primary as Hillary Clinton, and about 25 times as much coverage as Bernie Sanders. The classic example of this was on Super Tuesday, when all major news networks decided to ignore Bernie Sanders' speech in order to show the room waiting for Trump to speak.
What those left sites don't mention is the full reason why that happened:
1. Trump had people working for him working in some of the media outlets. He certainly wasn't alone in this (see: Donna Brazile).
2. The Clinton campaign pushed Trump as their opponent [wikileaks.org]. This is the part that the left-wing websites try to pretend didn't happen.
In any event, this election is hardly the first time faked news reports have found their way into mainstream media. Some examples of reporters who have been caught "reporting" completely false information: Jeff Gannon, Judith Miller, Brian Williams, Jayson Blair, Juan Thompson, Bill O'Reilly, Lara Logan, Stephen Glass, Steve Doocy.
That's why completely trusting a single un-corroborated source, for anything, is foolish. That's why science isn't considered true unless the idea in question is tested by multiple people, ideally using multiple equipment setups and multiple experimental methods.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 2) by bzipitidoo on Tuesday December 06 2016, @04:59PM
Reporters aren't the worst. Leslie Moonves, CEO of CBS, on Donald Trump: "It May Not Be Good for America, but It's Damn Good for CBS." Doesn't sound like a guy dedicated to uncovering the truth and reporting the facts. Does he even care about facts, or is he only interested in drama, only interested in what's easiest to produce and sell?
Les, let us know how it's working out for CBS when The Donald clamps down on your business. How's it feel to be censored, muzzled, and harassed by an organized army of angry, powerful fascists? Think he can't do that? Maybe. Would he do it if he could? What do you think? You'll wish for the good old days when your harassers were a scattering of powerless loonies.
With an attitude like that, he ought to switch to running a tabloid.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 06 2016, @10:31PM
what kind of bs reality do you live in where the msm wasn't already completely owned by the NWO and it's minion the US federal gov?
(Score: 2) by tisI on Wednesday December 07 2016, @02:37AM
These days it's all about the money. Nothing more.
I doubt CBS or any other network will have any worries about entertaining the Donald. Press (ANY) is what feeds his ego.
As long as the airways are full of his mug and mop and the praise is flowing life will be good for them all.
One things for sure with this group, Democracy will be sucking hind tit but Capitalism will be in milk and honey land.
Someone's going to have lots of fun with somebody else's money me'sa thinks.
"Suppose you were an idiot...and suppose you were a member of Congress...but I repeat myself."
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Tuesday December 06 2016, @09:02PM
While it's clear that Trump got more coverage than Hillary did, it's not clear that that's why he won. My take is that there were lots of people who liked Trump (though even more hated him), but nobody really liked Hillary. So Hillary lost because a lot of people couldn't stomach voting for her. Many more people hated Trump than hated Hillary, but (nearly) nobody liked her. Both I and my wife felt it was a pity they couldn't both lose, but when we looked at the third party candidates they weren't any better (than Hillary).
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Tuesday December 06 2016, @09:53PM
You were far from alone in this [gallup.com]. Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump were both in the same league of being hated as Barry Goldwater and George McGovern. Doing some more digging, since Gallup started tracking this in 1956, this was the very first time that both party nominees had a net negative favorability rating - they were both hated more than they were loved, by substantial margins. And that was at the beginning of the general election. It got worse as the race wore on: By early November, both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton had approval ratings were around 40% favorable, 56% unfavorable.
They really both deserved to lose. And anyone who wasn't rooting for Team Democrat or Team Republican realized that.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday December 07 2016, @03:57AM
Well, whose fault was that? I forget what the exact ultimate multiple was, but Hillary outspent Trump by scads. Google's results are all over the map, but it's at least double. So the result she got is after at least doubling his expenditures on advertising. Trump knew how to play the media and Hillary had to pay people great big piles of money to loathe her a little less.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Wednesday December 07 2016, @02:51PM
The media's, of course. They shouldn't have been played: Fool me once - shame on you. Fool me twice - shame on me.
My point is that they were being played by both Trump and Clinton to cover more of Trump's antics. So, no surprise, they covered more of Trump's antics, because they lacked the integrity to choose to do anything different.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.