Bloomberg Corrects FAKE NEWS Bombshell Trump Bank Records

MSNBC has such a high regard for the facts that they make Brian Williams their chief anchor.

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gwb-trading said:
This is the exact point I have made regularly. You need to understand the bias of the news media outlet you are reading or watching when taking in the news. Focus on the hard facts, and separate out their commentary. Use the information to make up your own mind on the issues.

There are both left-leaning and right-leaning outlets in the U.S. -- however there are far more many left-leaning news outlets than right-leaning ones. The very success FOX and Breitbart can be linked to that over 40% of the population in our country was sick and tired of being spoon fed obviously biased news each evening from ABC, NBC, CBS... as well as from the 24 hour outlets CNN / MSNBC, and from traditional papers such as NYT & Washington Post.
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Get specific here. Media outlets goes from print newspapers to mom's-basement bloggers.

Newspapers are bought (paywall these days) in larger numbers by people with third level education. The argument that conservatives don't go to university as they are liberal is.. really dreadfully riddled with holes.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/15/opinion/why-are-the-highly-educated-so-liberal.html

Off for the day, sometimes we need to get fresh air. ;)
 
Trump's attorney Johm Dowd is the same one who is claiming he tweeted Trump's admission he was guilty of obstructing of justice. (This is far too complicated for you Trump supporters, so just trust me on it.) Of course we all know that was Trump's tweet, otherwise Dowd would have been fired immediately, and only Trump is truly dumb enough to do it. When Trump's Deutsche bank transactions are subpoenaed you are unlikely to hear about it. No one has said they weren't subpoenaed except Dowd, and he's the one that Trump made fall on his own sword. . Dowd has to be the world's worst lawyer! If he really authored that tweet, as he claims and no one believes, he should be disbarred for incompetence, and if he didn't write it, he should be disbarred for lying. To bad all the good lawyers in D.C. turned Trump Down! :D
 
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gwb-trading said:
Simply go to the CNN or MSNBC websites and read.

Likewise you can go to the FOX website and read for bias in the other side of the political spectrum.
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I have no problem saying msnbc is a slanted. But, you don’t see people citing msnbc in a pervasive manner like with fox or Breitbart, zero hedge et al.

CNN actually has pretty high editorial standards. I wouldn’t put them on the same plane as the Washington Post or the New York Times, though.

The best investigative DC journalism has always come from the Washington Post and the Times is simply the best journalism in the world. You may not like that because of issues that go back to the Iraq war or whatever but it’s true.
 
AAAintheBeltway said:
The old line media outlets had always been able to decide for themselves what was news and what wasn't. The NYT and WashPost set the agenda and the TV networks and cable followed their lead. That lead was always extremely left of center, perhaps reaching its apex during the Clinton administration, when numerous serious scandals were essentially ignored. After all, Clinton supported abortion.

The rise of the new media, eg internet news, Fox, etc, complicated matters. The NYT no longer exclusively set the agenda. Matt Drudge did. The Lewinsky scandal was the tipping point. The mainstream media were determined to spike the story of Bill Clinton having sex romps in the Oval Office with a young intern. Drudge made that impossible.

As bad as life had become for the media, it was about to get a whole lot worse. Trump arrived as a candidate. He seemed perfect for the media, a legitimate celebrity who went out of his way to create wild controversy. The media couldn't get enough of him and if it hurt the other, more conventional republican candidates and resulted in the party nominating an idiot who would lead them to an historic defeat, well that was even better.

Only Trump wasn't an idiot. He was a genius at creating a personal brand who looked at winning a presidential election as a first time candidate as merely a marketing exercise. Plus, he had a secret weapon, twitter. Using twitter allowed him to totally go over the heads of the media and directly to his supporters. Even the mighty Reagan lacked that kind of power.

Suddenly the tables had turned on big media. They had snickered when Trump casually dismissed his rivals with playground insults, eg "Low Energy Jeb", "Lyin' Ted" , even "Crooked Hillary." There was enough truth in the insults to make them hurt. They weren't snickering when Trump called CNN fake news and disparaged the NYT as the failing NYT that lied about him. They were already all in on trying to remove Trump by fair means or foul. Journalism had morphed from pretending to be unbiased and holding power accountable to being full players on one team. The Podesta emails made it impossible to deny that fact. Media now is an exercise in tribal combat, fulfilling the role once held by the NFL before its demise into irrelevancy.
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Excellent post. :thumbsup:
 
UsualName said:
I have no problem saying msnbc is a slanted. But, you don’t see people citing msnbc in a pervasive manner like with fox or Breitbart, zero hedge et al.

CNN actually has pretty high editorial standards. I wouldn’t put them on the same plane as the Washington Post or the New York Times, though.

The best investigative DC journalism has always come from the Washington Post and the Times is simply the best journalism in the world. You may not like that because of issues that go back to the Iraq war or whatever but it’s true.
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Actually your statement should read -- "50 years ago the Washington Post and the Times had the best journalism in the world." Sadly their journalism has sunk to the level where many stories are simply paid hit pieces, disguised advertising, biased commentary, and sensationalist articles. The Washington Post in the last 5 years has sunk to the level where many people find it hard to differentiate it from the National Inquirer.

This being said... these two papers are still better than 90% of the other news outlets in America which is a sad statement on the shape of the MSM industry.
 
gwb-trading said:
Actually your statement should read -- "50 years ago the Washington Post and the Times had the best journalism in the world." Sadly their journalism has sunk to the level where many stories are simply paid hit pieces, disguised advertising, biased commentary, and sensationalist articles. The Washington Post in the last 5 years has sunk to the level where many people find it hard to differentiate it from the National Inquirer.

This being said... these two papers are still better than 90% of the other news outlets in America which is a sad statement on the shape of the MSM industry.
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My point is that facts matter. Good journalism matters.

The right wing news websites are tabloid journalism. They spread conspiracy theories by cherrypicking facts from legitimate reporting and present them out of context to fit a theory.
 
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