The "Fake News" Thread

[Lhalo]

https://web.archive.org/web/20170622210615/http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/22/politics/russian-investment-fund-under-investigation/index.html

http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/23/politics/editors-note/index.html

[Jason]

I remember the days when we'd have to go to the Weekly World News or National Enquirer for the fake stuff.  Apparently all the other news outlets liked their business models 

[Ordos]

News outlets can no longer count on a base of subscribers to pay the bills. Clicks and eyes drive the money again. Welcome back to yellow journalism.

[Kevin]

This could easily turn into a facebook thread. 

[gotbeer]

14 hours ago, Ordos said:

News outlets can no longer count on a base of subscribers to pay the bills. Clicks and eyes drive the money again. Welcome back to yellow journalism.

Easy solution.  Do what the Brits do and put Bewbs in the paper. 

[Thomas]

On 6/25/2017 at 0:17 AM, gotbeer said:

Easy solution.  Do what the Brits do and put Bewbs in the paper. 

All I see ARE boobs when I look at domestic politics in the news.

[Ordos]

4 hours ago, Thomas said:

All I see ARE boobs when I look at domestic politics in the news.

Yes, but how many of them do you actually want to see?

[Jay]

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_TRUMP_RUSSIA?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2017-06-30-17-32-29

Jun 30, 5:32 PM EDT

CLARIFICATION: TRUMP-RUSSIA STORIES

WASHINGTON (AP) -- In stories published April 6, June 2, June 26 and June 29, The Associated Press reported that all 17 U.S. intelligence agencies have agreed that Russia tried to influence the 2016 election to benefit Donald Trump. That assessment was based on information collected by three agencies - the FBI, CIA and National Security Agency - and published by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, which represents all U.S. intelligence agencies. Not all 17 intelligence agencies were involved in reaching the assessment.

 

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2017/07/06/cnns_jim_acosta_to_trump_fake_news_questioning_17_intel_agencies_claim_nyt_correction_proves_trump_right.html

July 6, 2017

CNN's Acosta To Trump: "Fake News" To Question "17 Intel Agencies" Claim; NYT Correction Proves Trump Right

JIM ACOSTA, CNN: The other thing that was fake news coming from President Trump is he said, "Well, I keep hearing it is 17 intelligence agencies who said Russia interfered in the election. I thnk it is only three or four." Where does that number come from? Where does this three or four number come from. My suspicion, Chris and Poppy, is that if we go to the administration, and ask them for this question, I'm not sure we're going to get an answer, and if we do, it will be off camera.

However, the "three or four" figure comes from the correction notes posted by the New York Times and Associated Press this week retracting their claim that all 17 agencies played a part. Acosta must not have read the corrections. 

[Jason]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2017/jul/07/donald-trump-handshake-ignored-by-polands-first-lady-video

 

[Lhalo]

Last week, more Americans tuned in to watch re-runs of “Yogi Bear,” “Full House,” and “Friends” on Nick At Nite than to watch Anderson Cooper and Don Lemon’s shows on CNN.

http://thefederalist.com/2017/07/06/ratings-collapse-cnn-now-losing-nick-nite-prime-time-ratings-war/

[Jason]

3 minutes ago, Lawrence said:

Last week, more Americans tuned in to watch re-runs of “Yogi Bear,” “Full House,” and “Friends” on Nick At Nite than to watch Anderson Cooper and Don Lemon’s shows on CNN.

http://thefederalist.com/2017/07/06/ratings-collapse-cnn-now-losing-nick-nite-prime-time-ratings-war/

CNN needs to rethink their business model

[Glen]

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-trump-administrations-own-data-says-obamacare-isnt-imploding/

 

More fake news (no quotation marks necessary) from Trump and company.

[Thomas]

49 minutes ago, Jason said:

CNN needs to rethink their business model

Step 1: Make a business model

[krAbs]

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2017/jul/06/donald-trump/donald-trump-right-gas-prices-now-lowest-over-10-y/

http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2017/jul/06/blog-posting/its-fake-news-president-can-disband-supreme-court/

and for flavor:
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2017/jul/06/17-intelligence-organizations-or-four-either-way-r/

I like this thread.

 

Edit: now that I think about it, my 'flavor' link is actually more fake news from the POTUS. He claimed "It could have very well been Russia but it could well have been other countries and I won't be specific but I think a lot of people interfered. Nobody really knows. Nobody really knows for sure." Which is obviously false, seeing as the CIA, FBI, and NSA have all confirmed that it was Russia.

Also, I'll stick to stories of the day when I post in here. No reason to go through best hits of Chinese global warming hoaxes and crowd size lies. I'll just talk about the recent obvious lies of the president of the United States. You know. Normal president stuff.

[gotbeer]

Rachel Maddow Says Forged NSA Document Being Shopped Around To News Outlets

Looks like schools out. Err, look at what Trump is doing.

[Jay]

35 minutes ago, gotbeer said:

Rachel Maddow Says Forged NSA Document Being Shopped Around To News Outlets

Looks like schools out. Err, look at what Trump is doing.

Fake Fake news

 

[Blarg]

On 7/7/2017 at 7:36 AM, Jason said:

CNN needs to rethink their business model

They should hire Courtney Cox to do the news.

[krAbs]

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2017/jul/10/donald-trump/donald-trump-says-barack-obama-did-nothing-about-r/

"Trump’s statement contains a grain of truth but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression, so we rate it Mostly False."

How terribly unusual. >.>

[nate]

Fox News refers to it as a "mistake"

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/07/we-were-mistaken-fox-and-friends-issues-rare-correction-on-false-comey-memo-story-no-word-from-trump/

[mtangelsfan]

Broadcast news is such a complete failure.  They are as complicit as anyone as to how we ended up with president trump.

Fox and MSNBC are the worst but I honestly believe CNN is more to blame because they have more gravitas than the others and they gave Trump so much free advertising.  Now they are playing his insult game and making themselves news instead of simply reporting about the things that really matter.

[krAbs]

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2017/jul/11/donald-trump/did-john-podesta-deny-cia-and-fbi-access-dnc-serve/

More fake news from the president...

[nate]

1 hour ago, mtangelsfan said:

Broadcast news is such a complete failure.  They are as complicit as anyone as to how we ended up with president trump.

Fox and MSNBC are the worst but I honestly believe CNN is more to blame because they have more gravitas than the others and they gave Trump so much free advertising.  Now they are playing his insult game and making themselves news instead of simply reporting about the things that really matter.

CNN is definitely the least to blame since they are the only ones that reported the actual news.

Now to blame them for sensationalizing it then maybe.

I think the bigger problem is how dumb Americans are that believe it when Trump spouts out a gigantic lie and then calls legit news against him "Fake News" like he does almost every day.

It is no coincidence that he and his admin are trying to cut education funding, they wouldn't want people to be smart enough to smell their bullshit.

[Make Angels Great Again]

21 hours ago, nate said:

CNN is definitely the least to blame since they are the only ones that reported the actual news.

 

 

[Glen]

Those are probably the only black people MAGA knows.

[mtangelsfan]

He's got piles of them in his backyard.