Every Trump lie will be instantly laundered as headline news
Yesterday, Donald Trump claimed to have gotten Sprint to bring 5,000 jobs back to America. This claim is false; the jobs have been coming for months. But a lot of media instantly published Trump's claim, many with Trump as the sole source and no reporting or fact-checking whatosever.
Trump and Sprint simply put out PR and everyone rewrote it. Sprint ignored inquiries from reporters who figured it out, only admitting that the jobs were "previously announced" after the company became the story and things started getting hot.
This is how it's going to be: he lies, and reporters instantly launder the statement into impartial-sounding headlines in the rush to be first. The excuse will be that stenography is journalism.
Get used to this sort of thing:
The New York Times:
Trump Takes Credit for Sprint Plan to Add 5,000 Jobs in U.S.
USA Today:
Trump: Sprint moving 5,000 jobs back to US
CNN:
Trump Declares Victory: Sprint will create 5,000 U.S. jobs
The New York Times is the only one with a fig-leaf ("takes credit"
whose wording winks at the fact that it's hogwash. Some, such as CNN and WaPo, use language that implicitly validate Trump's claim.
https://boingboing.net/2016/12/29/every-trump-lie-will-be-instan.html
Trump is a salesman really a clean slate of bull shit, rewrite with his finger in the dirt to be blown away with any wind of facts.
