CNN Snaps Back at Trump After President Zings Their Ratings on Twitter

[DonViejo]

by Ken Meyer | 10:14 am, June 27th, 2017

Donald Trump is hammering the political press once again, though this time CNN is returning fire on the president’s preferred battlefield.

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

CNN is playing defense after the network retracted a story about one of the president’s former staffers. CNN is enforcing new guidelines in the scandal’s aftermath, and they are holding an internal investigation to review the editorial failure that led to the incident.

The embarrassment was compounded on Monday, after three CNN employees resigned over the bogus story. As far as Trump is concerned, this development is all the proof he needs to show how much “fake news” CNN and other media outlets put out about him and Russia.

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[Freethinker65]

1. Alternative fact reporters at CNN resign

Alternative fact spewers in WH get tax payer money and free media coverage

[C_U_L8R]

2. Maybe Trump shouldn't bring up ratings

Since he has the lowest ratings ever.
But thanks for the reminder, trump

[Sanity Claws]

3. Glad CNN responded

but don't they have any decent editors who know grammar? It should be "its" not "it's"

[PJMcK]

4. The lack of proof-reading bugs me, too

My current bugaboo concerns my second favorite news website, Talking Points Memo.

Josh Marshall has built an excellent team of reporters and writers and the Editors Blog always provides great insight and analysis. The website is exceptional. But the lack of proof-reading for grammar, punctuation and word choice/spelling is glaring.

Getting a story out fast is important but how long does it really take to re-read what one has written?

[zipplewrath]

5. Spell checkers

Problem is that many people use spell checkers, but not grammer/word choice checkers. It's and its are both properly spelled words. Context makes all the difference. Quiet honestly, there was a time that contractions weren't supposed to be used in more formal writing. This alone helps with this problem.

I do think an awful lot of the press problems we've seen over the last decade can be attributed to the loss of the editor/fact checker job. There aren't enough of them and there isn't enough time to review work before it is broadcast/published. Quite honestly, the journalists themselves have to start taking more personal responsibility to address these issues, including their sourcing.

[PJMcK]

7. Good points

Spell-checking software is convenient but it still makes too many wrong assumptions. That's why, as you wrote, journalists need to take that responsibility upon themselves.

Additionally, I agree about contractions. The venerable book by Strunk & White, "The Elements of Style," was required reading when I was in junior high school and I still have my copy with its margin notes. The observations about punctuation are routinely ignored in much of the writing today.

By the way, this made me smile: "Quiet honestly,..."

[zipplewrath]

8. retyped it 3 times

Ya know, I retyped it 3 times because I kept putting the "E" after the "u". Not sure what the heck my brain was trying to type....

Isn't there a rule that all posts about spelling will contain at least two errors?

[PJMcK]

9. Too errors

(wink)

[miss-nasty]

11. Stop winking

I do it sometime to

[Alea]

10. "Isn't there a rule that all posts about spelling will contain at least two errors?"

Only when baiting grammar nazis

[cwydro]

12. I know.

No excuse for that.

[HipChick]

6. Is this what my tax dollars are paying for?

For him to do his dog chase on the media, leadership by Twitter, playing golf all weekends, regurgitation of Faux News talking points for the day?