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'Commercial for Truth' to air at Oscars tonight... (Original Post) babylonsister Feb 2017 OP
Physician heal thyself notKeith Feb 2017 #1
Your premise is not quite right. Bernardo de La Paz Feb 2017 #7
Interesting commercial except they BumRushDaShow Feb 2017 #2
Noticed that. Ligyron Feb 2017 #3
Since Drumpf is a NYer, the NYT has been on his ass for more than 40 years BumRushDaShow Feb 2017 #4
Yes and the resulting "message" is confusing. Ligyron Feb 2017 #5
+1 BumRushDaShow Feb 2017 #6

notKeith

(137 posts)
1. Physician heal thyself
Sun Feb 26, 2017, 10:24 AM
Feb 2017

During the election season, NY Times coverage of the cheeto-faced shitgibbon was just as shitty as CNN, WaPo, the rest of them. Funny thing - when miscreants like Sarah Palin refer to the "lamestream media" they have it exactly right - only now the NY Times and the rest are starting to do things like... oh, I dunno.. actually referring to Trump & Co statements as LIES.
Is it "Too little, too late"? Yes, from the standpoint of fox guarding the henhouse with respect to Education, EPA, etc. ad nauseum.

But bring it on, NY Times - start doing some real journalism, and get rid of the disingenuous, dangerous, and worthless "both sides do it" false equivalence. Start being the fourth estate again; the nation desperately needs it.

Bernardo de La Paz

(48,605 posts)
7. Your premise is not quite right.
Sun Feb 26, 2017, 11:49 AM
Feb 2017

NYT and WaPo and Newsweek were hitting tRump hard in the summer and October as revelations about tRump's Russian connections came out.

BumRushDaShow

(126,616 posts)
2. Interesting commercial except they
Sun Feb 26, 2017, 10:26 AM
Feb 2017

mix the lies in with the truth.

I.e., in their zeal to show the "war of words", they end up repeating the false assertions next to the term "The truth is..." and mix that in with the truthful statements. So it becomes almost like a false equivalency ad so as not to appear "biased'.

Ligyron

(7,574 posts)
3. Noticed that.
Sun Feb 26, 2017, 10:37 AM
Feb 2017

OK then, what IS the truth? The crap you spouted during the Trump campaign/worship? The right wing garbage prevalent in your ad?

IDK, at least now they started investigating the Fascist they helped put in office.

Maybe better late than never.

BumRushDaShow

(126,616 posts)
4. Since Drumpf is a NYer, the NYT has been on his ass for more than 40 years
Sun Feb 26, 2017, 11:00 AM
Feb 2017

They have written many exposes about him and his father, mainly because he was their own local yokel.

The problem is that few had access to the Times until recently with the availability of the digital version (where you don't have to rely on a local paper carrier having a delivery service for it outside of NYC metro, which I have had - I have subscribed since 1976).

It's possible that what they initially appeared to be doing is "printing" (like a closed-caption) the audio of all of the overlapping statements that you hear in the background of the commercial. However when doing so, they muddle the message by using the term "The truth is..." at the beginning of each (transcribed) audio assertion.

If they had left off the term "The truth is" and let the audio proceed (and yes, they could have transcribed what they were saying), then they could have concluded with "The truth is hard" (or whatever).

Ligyron

(7,574 posts)
5. Yes and the resulting "message" is confusing.
Sun Feb 26, 2017, 11:04 AM
Feb 2017

It's too much like - pick your own "truth".

Reality should be more obvious.

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