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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (306353)	10/14/2024 10:30:09 AM
From: i-node	1 Recommendation Recommended By longz Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 358808

>> I never said or suggested that reporters deliver as news their interpretations of Trump's comments. I argued only that quotes are facts, thus should be treated as such. Quotes are facts (if they are quotes at all) but they do not always carry the entire information packet with them. The shooting on 5th Ave quote is an example. There is no conceivable scenario where Trump would shoot someone on 5th Avenue, yet that story still floats around as though it were a thing. And not a quote, but related to the topic, there is a dummied up video allegedly of Trump "making fun" of a man who has a mild birth defect. When in truth, it was just a video of Trump with a stop-action frame designed to make it look as if he might have actually been doing that. That was a lie. They knew it was a lie when they printed it. Yet, it broadly changed the views of voters who were ignorant of the trick. The context was important. Often, we get the Cassidy Hutchinson styled quote, where it is alleged that Trump said something that he clearly did not say or might have said in a different contextual style, etc. So, that is actually common. Often articles are written so as to put words in Trump's mouth, which simply cannot be done without providing a LOT of context. I would refer you back to Kam interview with Telemundo last week where she did this as well. It should be apparent that my point is a person, any person, can be made to look pretty evil if someone sets out to do it. Just as in the bogus court cases, at the end of the day, there is no getting one's reputation back if you have been falsely changed with a half dozen crimes, adjudicated guilty without the benefit of fair trials or appeal processes, etc., quotes can be abused in ways that do not lead to truth. So, calling them facts requires a lot of context.