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Source: PoliticusUSA, by Jason 'Keepin' It Real' Easley
Before Trump and his allies jump on NBC News for correcting their report about Michael Cohen being wiretapped, ask yourself when has Donald Trump ever corrected any of his intentionally false statements? (Hint: The answer is he never has).
Responsible journalism isnt making a false statement and repeating it, as Trump and his conservative media allies often do. Responsible journalism means putting the facts first so that corrections can be explained and people come away better informed.
Trump and his friends will use this correction to discredit the Cohen investigation, but the original point still stands. The President Of The United States was caught in surveillance related to a criminal investigation. The fact that NBC News had to correct a detail doesnt change the big picture.
Trump and Cohen are in real trouble, and instead of raking NBC News over the coals people should be learning from their example of what responsible journalism is supposed to be.
Read it all at: https://www.politicususa.com/2018/05/03/nbc-michael-cohen-wiretap-correction.html
Doodley
(9,078 posts)Lucky Luciano
(11,253 posts)emulatorloo
(44,109 posts)sheshe2
(83,728 posts)yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)to get that real sweet, good lemonade!
Hey. I haven't been around much and when I am it is brief.
yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)before the Summer Primaries, and then "we'll get so tired of winning again!"
sheshe2
(83,728 posts)Works for me!
I am so in the mood to kick ass. 2018 AND 2020.
yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)I just might yet live long enough to see our first female president, she!
sheshe2
(83,728 posts)It is going to happen.
Cha
(297,123 posts)yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)No doubt we are on the right side of ALL this!
Mme. Defarge
(8,026 posts)With breaking news happening 24/7, to err from time to time is certainly human. To acknowledge, retract and apologize is a testament to admirable ethics and professionalism.
yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)Right next to promotional links to (it's Fox News):
Kate Upton's hottest shots
Star's dress comes off completely
Just what you want from a professional news organization.
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)BobTheSubgenius
(11,562 posts)Straws? They are desperately looking for any tiny distraction to turn down the head 5 degrees for a few minutes. As they feel more and more cornered, watch some of the idiocy that ensues.
Their rhetoric will be worthy of Big Fish.
Grokenstein
(5,721 posts)...and the George W. Bush memo. The gist of the memo was true--but because the memo itself was not, and was reported on before being fully vetted, the Republicans were able to turn the entire issue into "fake news." It'll work this time as well, if only on Trump's hardcore base.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,109 posts)It probably is real.