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Re: Fake News

Post by Okeefenokee » Sat Feb 18, 2017 12:08 am

You thought it was over.

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Re: Fake News

Post by Okeefenokee » Sat Feb 18, 2017 12:16 am

This is the one.

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Re: Fake News

Post by Okeefenokee » Sat Feb 18, 2017 12:20 am

This one too. All of them, really.

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Re: Fake News

Post by Okeefenokee » Sat Feb 18, 2017 12:37 am

Probably my favorite.

Shall we ever meet again,
at the house,
at the house?
Then to make the chorus ring,
at the house of God?

Let us sing.
Sweetly sing.
At the house, then we'll sing, at the house of God.

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Re: Fake News

Post by C-Mag » Sat Feb 18, 2017 12:43 am

Okeefenokee wrote:
C-Mag wrote:Well Fuck you very much
:lol:
Okee did you get into Pappy's jar of cough syrup on this Friday Night.
Blame Nuke. He's a bad influence.

No shit, that fucking Gutter Whore has me calling people Cucks.
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Re: Fake News

Post by Okeefenokee » Sat Feb 18, 2017 12:49 am

You need Jesus.

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Re: Fake News

Post by JohnDonne » Sat Feb 18, 2017 1:30 am

Calculus Man wrote:
JohnDonne wrote:what matters to you and me is what the government is actually doing.
Yes, I agree. That's why I cited the Post article.

If they want to be taken seriously as a news organization, they should write articles that give me some information about what the government is actually doing. Instead they just whip up fear with some insinuations from a butthurt Democrat about an imaginary future policy.

When Trump compared the leaks to Nazi Germany, he was lambasted by the press. Do you really not remember the tone of those articles? "Trump attacks intelligence community--compares them to Nazis!" Then when a Democrat does the same thing, it's all concern trolling. "I'm not comparing this President to the Nazis, but seriously, this is like the Nazis, guys."

It's not so much Trump that needs defending as it is the country that needs defending. We need to defend ourselves against these propagandists, because they clearly don't have our interests in mind. Part of that process is vigilantly calling out this hypocrisy. Bias is okay. But these organizations masquerade as unbiased information sources, and they clearly are not.
Aside from the exclamation mark, "Trump attacks intelligence community--compares them to Nazis!" is that not an accurate assessment of what Trump tweeted? Why would they bother to polish up his tweets? The media are not his public relations workers. Go back and look at several random mainstream articles of that story that are not editorials. Find anything but a dry, dispassionate reporting of facts and post them here.

Think about it from a journalist's perspective. Trump's words and actions are more compelling than anything a journalist could insinuate through tone. All they have to do is set it down dry and dispassionately, add a little background and quote somebody and it's already as compelling as it could possibly be. Why mess with it when you can give him enough rope to hang himself?

I don't know, I feel like if anyone is obviously biased for or against Trump it's the people on this forum. You may say the media was inappropriately kid gloves with Obama, (although I and many others came to the conclusion that he was not really a reformer and was actually business as usual simply by reading the news critically) but that does not make the current treatment of Trump inappropriate at all.

A perfect monolithic media which has no biases never was and never will be. If you want a more perfect media, at least call them out when they're actually doing something wrong, not just doing their jobs.

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Re: Fake News

Post by Okeefenokee » Sat Feb 18, 2017 9:29 am

C-Mag wrote:
Okeefenokee wrote:
C-Mag wrote:Well Fuck you very much
:lol:
Okee did you get into Pappy's jar of cough syrup on this Friday Night.
Blame Nuke. He's a bad influence.

No shit, that fucking Gutter Whore has me calling people Cucks.
What is this that casts thee down?
Who are those that grieve thee?

Speak and let the worst be known?
Speaking may relieve thee.
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Re: Fake News

Post by Montegriffo » Sat Feb 18, 2017 9:46 am

Okeefenokee wrote:
C-Mag wrote:Reports coming out Trump Admin put out the memo to smoke out leakers. They 'colored the water' issued the 100k National Guard memo to 10 people, but each copy was unique in a different way. A typo, one word changed, etc.
Dude, I was thinking about this last night. I thought that sort of thing was already going on. I doubt this is the first of it. You don't show your hand like that on the first run.
Whoa hold on, what happened to no source equals fake news Okee?
Speculation is still speculation even when it makes Trump look clever.
It's no good shouting fake news when you hear something you don't like but swallowing rumours when you do like the implications. That just makes you look hypocritical.
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Re: Fake News

Post by TheReal_ND » Sat Feb 18, 2017 9:48 am

Find me a source. So far I have four days worth of archived /pol/ threads stating they were going to feed the media lies and it would be released Friday night. Haven't found anything more credible than that so far though.