10-22-2019, 04:15 AM
deckeda wrote:
[quote=AllGold]
“you people with this phony emoluments clause.”
My beef is with all the news sources that simply offer up a sound bite like that without adding that Trump is a lying sack of shit. The top-of-the-hour radio news summaries are particularly bad. They may not mean to but they are just reinforcing Trump's B.S.
Margaret Sullivan has a piece in WaPo giving recent examples of where the media is finally learning how to report on Trump. Instead of the usual, “this was said/critics are saying” formula they are now including the truth of the context. Her first example came from NYT. Every WaPo news story lately now does it this way: “Trump claimed without evidence ‘X’. Instead of the old way, Trump claimed X. Critics dispute that.”
In the pre-Trump era they didn’t think it was their call to proclaim truth and lies, but to merely report what happened. That’s slowly changing.
The first time I recall headlines using "without evidence" was when he claimed Obama tapped his phone. That was just 6 weeks into his presidency. Mar 4, 2017.
"Trump, Offering No Evidence, Says Obama Tapped His Phones"
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/04/us/po...hones.html
"Trump, without evidence, accuses Obama of wiretapping him; 'Simply false,' Obama spokesman says"
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2017.../98734316/