AP Delenda Est.
“Hey @AP_Politics why do you feature a completely false — and easily checkable Trump quote — in a tweet? 33 countries allow it, including Mexico and Canada. You should delete this.”
“AP Politics” should delete this tweet?
Better idea for “AP Politics”: Delete your account.
Journalists are still reckoning with reporting in the time of Trump, a President who lies or misleads at much higher rates than his predecessors and for whom fact checking is a constant and immediate requirement.
How effing long would it have taken someone to fact check this?!
Do your jobs!
AP, cura te ipsum.
tRump’s tweets are Fake News. Why is anyone reporting this garbage?
Does the AP not have access to some kind of, I don’t know, reliable search engine, or something? Because if not, I would encourage them to get one.
Or they could even resort to old fashioned stuff, like getting on the horn to a constitutional expert at some university somewhere and asking a question or two.
But it’s probably simpler just letting Donald and Stephen Miller write the news. So forget I said anything.
Took me all of about 30 seconds (and I posted about it in another thread). And it’s not just a few countries - it’s almost every country in the Western Hemisphere. There are some local variations and qualifications, of course.
Journalists are still reckoning with reporting in the time of Trump, a President who lies or misleads at much higher rates than his predecessors and for whom fact checking is a constant and immediate requirement.
Trump fact checking rule of thumb - unless proven otherwise he’s lying.
That’s proven to be the safe default assumption.
There is no truth like post-truth…
But truth isn’t truth, right?
The TORONTO STAR has been carefully tracking Trump’s lies since he took office (not even bothering to look at his campaign) and as of a few days ago, Trump has publicly made 2915 demonstrably false statements, which is 4.5 per day. Of course, we don’t know how many private lies he tells, so lets assume that the real number is probably 6,000 or more. Here’s the running total:
Here’s a really worthwhile movie that seemed to foresee the rise of the Orange Fecal Bolus:
Why do any reputable news organizations ever take any Trump assertion on face value? He lies about everything.
I’m sure his tactic is to overwhelm the news media with statements that factual or not cast him in a good light and his foes in a bad light, relying on his gullible deplorables to lap it all up while keeping the media in a frenzy of fact checking that will have absolutely no affect on his flock.
Are you kidding me?! Trump needs to be fact-checked?! Holy crap, maybe the AP should review some of their prior articles, which assume Trump is a truth-sayer, in light of this glaring new development!!
Run every tweet, every utterance of the Orange Stain through a fact checker and refuse to publish it when discovering it is a lie. Shun him and his rancid family. Let them see, in real time, the disgust and disdain they elicit from decent people. Vote.
Three years & thousands of lies later, they still won’t do a simple fact check before printing his nonsense ?
What’s that thing they call “it’s a feature, not a bug” ?
If they’re afraid of Teh Google, the AP could try checking Daniel Dale’s Twitter feed before they run anything.
They’re “pivoting” - it takes time.
