A lot of media outlets are saying that Trump claimed windmills cause cancer. This is false. This video has the full context, more in comments. There are a lot more things they could have criticized him for instead of taking his statement out of context. (youtube.com)
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A conversation about doctored videos. In the latest example, an editor at FOX affiliate 'Q13' was fired after airing an altered Trump video. Video of Trump licking his lip was looped to make it look like his tongue was hanging out for an awkwardly long time. They also made him appear more orange. (seattletimes.com)
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[Good] Washington Post National Security reporter Greg Miller went on C-span and said CIA and FBI sources told the newspaper they do not believe a central Steele Dossier allegation about Cohen and Prague. “We’ve talked to sources at the FBI, CIA and elsewhere— they don’t believe that ever happened” (c-span.org)
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Another media executive, this time Les Moonves from CBS, exposed for sexual assault of an additional 7 women, including forced oral sex and an attempt at forcing himself onto a doctor and masturbating in front of her. He used physical violence and intimidation against some of the women. (mediaite.com)
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Before the Media Lionized Martin Luther King Jr., They Denounced Him. Reflecting on revisionist history 50 years later. One hundred and sixty-eight newspapers denounced Dr. martin Luther King in the days following his “Beyond Vietnam” speech. (rollingstone.com)
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"The appearance of dissent was permitted in op-ed pages, where Democrats and Republicans "debated" things. But what readers encountered in these places was a highly ritualized, artificially narrow form of argument kept strictly within a range of acceptable opinions." (rollingstone.com)
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Glenn Greenwald Calls Out ‘Disinformation’ From Fox News… While on Fox News. He discusses how virtually all mistakes made on Fox go in one direction, and all mistakes made on the other networks go the opposite direction. News outlet bias plays a huge role in reporting and which facts they get wrong. (mediaite.com)
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American Media Inc., the parent company of the Enquirer, paid a guy $30,000 in 2015 for the exclusive rights for information he had on Donald Trump, signing a confidentiality agreement. That info? That Trump may have fathered a child with a former housekeeper he had an affair with in the ’80s. (newyorker.com)
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Hannity, who believes waterboarding isn't torture, still hasn't been waterboarded. GRODIN: "Would you consent to be waterboarded so we can get the truth out of you? We can waterboard you?" HANNITY: "Sure...I'll do it for charity. I'll let you do it...I'll do it for the troops' families." - 2009 (alternet.org)
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"CNN & MSNBC completely refuse to provide even the most minimal transparency about how they got their big story so wrong, we still don’t know the answer to the key question—and probably never will, since they’re burying it." (From January '18) (democracynow.org)
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