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Honeycombe8

(37,648 posts)
9. Got any links of a news org. saying that the station's opinion is that Trump is exonerated...
Thu Apr 4, 2019, 06:28 PM
Apr 2019

of collusion and obstruction? Or did they report the facts: Trump was not indicted for anything by Special Counsel, and Barr reports that the Special Counsel did not recommend indicting Trump?

Maybe you just don't like the news and want to hear it reported another way, like, "Although the Special Counsel didn't indict Trump for collusion or obstruction, and Barr says in his summary that the Special Counsel does not recommend indicting him, we here at ABC think that's fishy. We suspect the Mueller Report contains more damning evidence against Trump and says something else regarding recommendations."

The former is news. The latter is not news; it's injecting personal feelings into the story.

Who, what, when, where, how, and sometimes why = news.

It says, she or he says, they report, the statement says, he responded = news.

I think, it's wrong, it's right, amazing, baffling, mind boggling, disturbing = not news.

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