What is Fake News?|5 Minute Video
What is phony news? Is Donald Trump correct when he states CNN, The New York Times, and other traditional outlets report fake news?
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Script:
You’ve most likely heard a lot of people just recently screaming and shrieking about Fake News. Charges fly from all points on the political spectrum: this story is misinterpreted– it’s Fake News; that declaration is inaccurate– it’s Fake News.
To my mind, these arguments miss the point. Mainstream American news is ALL phony since the significant news outlets are so regularly biased towards the left that whether any given story they report is accurate or not, their overall reportage is basically leftist propaganda.
You can grumble about the conservative slant of Fox News all you want, but left-wing ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC and CNN have actually, combined, practically 10 times the viewers.
Look, the chief journalist at ABC is former Clinton operative George Stephanopoulos; the president of CBS News is David Rhodes, the sibling of a former senior Obama staffer. Comcast, which owns NBC, is run by a major Democrat donor. Same for the management at CBS and Time Warner, which owns CNN.
Just 7 percent of American journalists determine as Republican. And while a great deal of news outlets forbid their press reporters to donate to candidates, 96 percent of those who did contribute last time out gave to Hillary Clinton.
These reporters declare that despite the reality they’re all Democrats, they can be objective. It just ain’t so. Psychologists have actually revealed that when individuals associate practically specifically with those who concur with them, they struggle with groupthink and confirmation predisposition and lose their ability to see events clearly.
Now, it’s not that these reporters are phonies, exactly– it’s that their bias alters their reporting in extremely particular methods. Let me offer you Andrew Klavan’s Three Rules of Mainstream Media Journalism. These can transform any story, whether it’s true or not, into Fake News.
Rule Number One:
Whenever left-wing prejudices are confirmed by a single occasion, that event is dealt with as agent. But whenever left-wing prejudices are contradicted by a single event, that occasion is dealt with as an isolated event– and if you treat it as agent, you are considered to be hateful.
For instance, a white police shoots a black suspect. The mainstream media treats that story as representative of general police racism even though studies reveal police officers do not use deadly force more often on blacks than on whites.
On the other hand, if a Muslim devotes an act of terrorism, and someone is vibrant enough to mention that the terrorist act is, in reality, representative of the daily acts of Muslim horror all over the world, this is thought about Islamophobic.
When an event illustrates a larger story, the leftist media cherry-picks. That’s Fake News.
Guideline Number Two:
When a scandal breaks on the right, the news is the scandal. When a scandal breaks on the left, the news is: who wrongfully revealed that scandalous info?
Thus, when the media wished to raise suspicions that Donald Trump was in some way in league with the Russians, they easily estimated illegally dripped info from intelligence sources.
When Congressman Devin Nunes announced he had details that the Obama administration might have misused intelligence against Donald Trump’s shift team, the story became: How did Nunes get that info? And did he do it legally?
The scandal meter is heavily weighted to fall to the. Phony News.
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What is Fake News? What is phony news? Is Donald Trump correct when he states CNN, The New York Times, and other traditional outlets report phony news? Look, the chief reporter at ABC is former Clinton operative George Stephanopoulos; the president of CBS News is David Rhodes, the sibling of a former senior Obama staffer. These can transform any story, whether it’s true or not, into Fake News.
