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Trump reflected in a Fun House mirror.
Trump tells lies. He accuses the opposition of telling lies.
Trump is not afraid to make an accusation that applies to Trump himself, and point his accusing finger at someone that is innocent of wrong doing.
(Against Trump stands the concientious fact checkers, the reference researchers, the educated, professional journalists, specialists in their fields of study,the scrupulous keepers of records, the most dedicated of students of every branch of literature.)
If Trump tosses an accusation at an oponent, of hiring paid protesters, you can be sure that Trump is doing that very thing.
Imperfections in reporting, are pointed at, as they were examples were intentional wrongdoing by the American press media.
They live on forever, as memes.
They are refered to, as if they were forged in bronze.
Time magazine had sent Zeke Miller to the White House. Zeke Miller had initially reported that the bust was removed.
What led a trained correspondent to percieve that the bust was not there?
A camera should have recorded it. Two correspondents should have been able to confer and verify. But, long since, the very people that could enlighten, inform and clarify, have been targeted and put at a disadvantage.
We do not have a detailed account.
It is a simple question. Was the MLK bust in the honored spot, where President Obama had kept it ? Or, had it been moved to a different spot in the room?
It was an important question because of the implications.
A simple observation had the power to bring deeply negative connotations. Symbolic gesture of racism, to remove MLK bust.
(After all of the bigoted and racist claims that Trump had made during his campaign, this was the icing on the cake.)
Why was it not discussed in detail ?
Why did the Time's correspondent back down?
What was offered was an explanation that does not seem to match up correctly. "A guard was standing in front it (MLK bust.)"
"... but he ended up correcting it and apologizing to his colleagues."
Trump used an appearance at the CIA to charge that members of the media are among the most “dishonest people in the world” to cheers in front of those assembled at Langley. He lambasted Time magazine’s Zeke Miller for reporting, incorrectly, that the new administration had removed a bust of Martin Luther King Jr. from the Oval Office. Miller quickly corrected himself publicly and apologized for his mistake.
“So Zeke, Zeke from Time magazine, writes the story about I took down — I would never do that, because I have great respect for Dr. Martin Luther King,” Trump said. “But this is how dishonest the media is. Now, big story. The retraction was, like, where? Was it in a line? Or do they even bother putting it in?”
Miller, who declined a request for comment to BuzzFeed News, did not write a story about the missing MLK Jr. bust but included it in a press pool report sent to reporters around the country. He pointed BuzzFeed News to his tweets, where he repeatedly apologized for his error and his colleagues in the press who relied on his report.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/adriancarrasquillo/cpj-chilling?utm_term=.rvNl5OoPA#.fg5Xk6RJY
Calling the country’s leading newspaper and every major news network except Fox “the enemy of the American people” is and ought to be alarming; it is, as David Remnick recently noted, how authoritarianism settles in.
At cpac, Trump said that the press shouldn’t be “allowed” to use unnamed sources—a vital outlet for dissent when a government entity acts badly—and complained that reporters “say that we can’t criticize their dishonest coverage because of the First Amendment—you know, they always bring up the Fiii-rrrst Amendment.” As he referred to the Constitution, he adopted an insubstantial whine. For Trump, the expression of First Amendment concerns was yet another example of the media’s perfidy: when they wrote about his tweet, he said, “They dropped off the word ‘fake.’ … I am only against the fake news media or press. Fake. Fake. They have to leave that word.” By “leave that word” is he suggesting that the media organizations he has labelled America’s enemies should call themselves “fake,” in some sort of reportorial self-criticism session—a Trumpian cultural-revolution exercise?
The media, for the record, did pay attention to his use of the word “fake,” in part because his dismissal of serious reporting—of facts—was one of many problems with his tweet, and with his approach to reality. At cpac, as an example of fakeness, he referred to a Washington Post story, which he claimed, with no evidence, cited fabricated sources, and to the “Clinton News Network.” A few hours later, CNN, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Politico, and other media outlets were excluded from a White House press briefing. Is that what it means to keep “the bad ones” out? Back at cpac, as Trump talked about his many enemies, the crowd applauded.
http://www.newyorker.com/news/amy-davidson/trump-talks-about-enemies-again-at-cpac
Trump tells lies. He accuses the opposition of telling lies.
Trump is not afraid to make an accusation that applies to Trump himself, and point his accusing finger at someone that is innocent of wrong doing.
(Against Trump stands the concientious fact checkers, the reference researchers, the educated, professional journalists, specialists in their fields of study,the scrupulous keepers of records, the most dedicated of students of every branch of literature.)
If Trump tosses an accusation at an oponent, of hiring paid protesters, you can be sure that Trump is doing that very thing.
Imperfections in reporting, are pointed at, as they were examples were intentional wrongdoing by the American press media.
They live on forever, as memes.
They are refered to, as if they were forged in bronze.
Time magazine had sent Zeke Miller to the White House. Zeke Miller had initially reported that the bust was removed.
What led a trained correspondent to percieve that the bust was not there?
A camera should have recorded it. Two correspondents should have been able to confer and verify. But, long since, the very people that could enlighten, inform and clarify, have been targeted and put at a disadvantage.
We do not have a detailed account.
It is a simple question. Was the MLK bust in the honored spot, where President Obama had kept it ? Or, had it been moved to a different spot in the room?
It was an important question because of the implications.
A simple observation had the power to bring deeply negative connotations. Symbolic gesture of racism, to remove MLK bust.
(After all of the bigoted and racist claims that Trump had made during his campaign, this was the icing on the cake.)
Why was it not discussed in detail ?
Why did the Time's correspondent back down?
What was offered was an explanation that does not seem to match up correctly. "A guard was standing in front it (MLK bust.)"
"... but he ended up correcting it and apologizing to his colleagues."
Trump used an appearance at the CIA to charge that members of the media are among the most “dishonest people in the world” to cheers in front of those assembled at Langley. He lambasted Time magazine’s Zeke Miller for reporting, incorrectly, that the new administration had removed a bust of Martin Luther King Jr. from the Oval Office. Miller quickly corrected himself publicly and apologized for his mistake.
“So Zeke, Zeke from Time magazine, writes the story about I took down — I would never do that, because I have great respect for Dr. Martin Luther King,” Trump said. “But this is how dishonest the media is. Now, big story. The retraction was, like, where? Was it in a line? Or do they even bother putting it in?”
Miller, who declined a request for comment to BuzzFeed News, did not write a story about the missing MLK Jr. bust but included it in a press pool report sent to reporters around the country. He pointed BuzzFeed News to his tweets, where he repeatedly apologized for his error and his colleagues in the press who relied on his report.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/adriancarrasquillo/cpj-chilling?utm_term=.rvNl5OoPA#.fg5Xk6RJY
Calling the country’s leading newspaper and every major news network except Fox “the enemy of the American people” is and ought to be alarming; it is, as David Remnick recently noted, how authoritarianism settles in.
At cpac, Trump said that the press shouldn’t be “allowed” to use unnamed sources—a vital outlet for dissent when a government entity acts badly—and complained that reporters “say that we can’t criticize their dishonest coverage because of the First Amendment—you know, they always bring up the Fiii-rrrst Amendment.” As he referred to the Constitution, he adopted an insubstantial whine. For Trump, the expression of First Amendment concerns was yet another example of the media’s perfidy: when they wrote about his tweet, he said, “They dropped off the word ‘fake.’ … I am only against the fake news media or press. Fake. Fake. They have to leave that word.” By “leave that word” is he suggesting that the media organizations he has labelled America’s enemies should call themselves “fake,” in some sort of reportorial self-criticism session—a Trumpian cultural-revolution exercise?
The media, for the record, did pay attention to his use of the word “fake,” in part because his dismissal of serious reporting—of facts—was one of many problems with his tweet, and with his approach to reality. At cpac, as an example of fakeness, he referred to a Washington Post story, which he claimed, with no evidence, cited fabricated sources, and to the “Clinton News Network.” A few hours later, CNN, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Politico, and other media outlets were excluded from a White House press briefing. Is that what it means to keep “the bad ones” out? Back at cpac, as Trump talked about his many enemies, the crowd applauded.
http://www.newyorker.com/news/amy-davidson/trump-talks-about-enemies-again-at-cpac
