Posted on 05/28/2018 2:58:07 PM PDT by ransomnote
There may have been a real White House briefing with real White House officials, but The New York Times couldn't be trusted to accurately summarize what the White House official said. And it wasn't on a minor point.
On the path to the June 12 summit with North Korea, journalists claimed President Donald Trump would not be willing to walk away from the negotiating table because he was too desperate for a win.
The Washington Post’s David Nakamura wrote that “critics fear that a president determined to declare victory where his predecessors failed will allow his desire for a legacy-making deal to override the substance of the negotiations.” On the same day, the Washington Post’s Paul Waldman mocked Trump’s desire for a win, which he said was turning Trump into a fool who was getting played.
Then President Trump did what media outlets said he’d never do. He walked away from the negotiating table due to North Korea’s behavior. The media outlets didn’t acknowledge their previous analytical missteps so much as come up with new lines of attack on Trump.
Mark Landler and David Sanger of The New York Times wrote an article arguing there were deep divisions between Trump and his advisors. To support the claim, the Times argued that Trump said a June 12 summit was still possible, while his top aides said it was “impossible”:
As with so many issues involving this president, the views of his aides often have little effect on what he actually says. On Thursday, for example, a senior White House official told reporters that even if the meeting were reinstated, holding it on June 12 would be impossible, given the lack of time and the amount of planning needed.
All this is the result of operation mockingbird decades ago when the CIA planted media types all over the country,many still there.
At the VERY LEAST, we need to END the virtual inability to sue the media for libel and slander - those protections should only be afforded to a media that at least attempts to be unbiased.
The media now is HIDING beyond those ‘protections’ to INTENTIONALLY LIE about Trump. They MUST be held liable.
Cool graphic, Tiger. Made me laugh.
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Note: this topic is from . Thanks ransomnote.
I'll bet 'the press' doesn't include this story in any of their year end round ups...
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