Tedious, but absolutely necessary reporting format during the Trump presidency

[bigtree]

NYT: https://t.co/aLB0twurkI

[procon]

1. That's a thing of beauty and should become the new stylebook for all news media.

The Fourth Estate has a duty to report the truth, not just reprint press releases. In today's Trump world that requires a bit more effort to help educate the largely uninformed average news consumer to distinguish fiction from facts.

[demmiblue]

2. Adding this:

[ProudLib72]

12. In the vid from the rally, there is a man in the back over the Rump's right shoulder

who looks to be wearing a tin foil hat. It is a form fitting tin foil hat, but a tin foil hat nonetheless. Were they handing them out?

[Maraya1969]

15. I think that's his hair. It's a bowel cut like Captain Kangaroo had

[ck4829]

3. K&R. Everything Trump says needs a citation for it

[gratuitous]

4. Tedious, indeed

As an editorial matter, I'd prefer the Times led off its coverage of the latest Trump campaign rally with these corrections to the record, rather than having it in a separate section for "Fact Check of the Day." See if you can spot the difference in two potential ledes:

"Today, President Donald Trump announced an ambitious plan to harvest green cheese from the moon."

"Based on a screwball belief that the moon is made of green cheese, President Donald Trump announced a new administration initiative for a moon landing to harvest the non-existent cheese."

[deurbano]

6. Also actually call them LIES, instead of using terms like "debunked claims" or "implausible"...

I mean, at least the Times is challenging the lies, but the response it still too tepid as a counter to his constant and aggressive lying.

[spanone]

5. a lying sonofabitch

[cstanleytech]

8. Well we already knew he had alot in common with Pinocchio without the redeeming quality

Pinocchio had of being able to keep you warm on a cold winter night if you happened to be trapped in a cabin in the middle of nowhere without any firewood handy.

[spanone]

9. 😎

[Honeycombe8]

7. We need to point out what we can, space permitting, in other social media....

Here, we know the score. There are lies piling up daily. Up is down, down is up. Nothing is real in TrumpLand.

[Hekate]

10. Whenever I turn on CNN or MSNBC, the journos are fact checking DTs at a great pace

Good work, guys and gals.

[Mc Mike]

11. It could be pithier and punchy-er if it was

Prez D Rump lied again today. Lied big and small, lied often.

[jayschool2013]

13. The Star

Minute-by-minute fact-checking

"The president briefly mentioned Blackburn four times. The rest of the speech, he lied, told elaborate stories that very much appeared to be fabrications, lobbed insults at Democrats, talked about the street gang MS-13, boasted of his own successes, and made a few vague promises."

[BlueJac]

14. Everyone must assume Trump...

is lying every time he opens his mouth. He has a record that will never be surpassed,Biggest Liar,Worst President!