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About Face... Spin!
Am Thinker ^ | Dec 23, 2018 | Clarice Feldman

Posted on 12/23/2018 9:04:16 AM PST by upchuck

It’s always amusing to watch the pundits and spinners turn on a dime. It used to be harder before the internet made it easy to retrieve what they said in the past. This week, with a tsunami of developments, the spinning is at full force.

Spinning

Let’s start with the spinning of the news and how media poisons the well in favor of their loved ones.

A. In 2014 CNN honored a Der Spiegel writer, Claus Relotius as “Journalist of the Year”. He could be reliably counted on to flatter the readers' anti-American biases, so he was a natural winner for the network. Unfortunately for him, he ran up against some Americans in Fergus Falls, Minnesota, who cared about the truth. They scoured his report on the town, interviewed the people he said he had and exposed him as an utter fraud. That persuaded his bosses to take a second look at the nonsense he had been peddling and they fired him for fabricating his accounts.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: claricespieces
Follow the link for lots of examples of the press being dishonest.
1 posted on 12/23/2018 9:04:16 AM PST by upchuck
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2 posted on 12/23/2018 9:05:09 AM PST by upchuck (Q: What high crime has Trump committed? A: He won the 2016 Presidential election. ~ h/t dartuser)
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Der Spiegel messed up by not fact-checking as they should have. But they're not near as bad as MSNBC. They hired Brian Williams AFTER he was caught lying.


3 posted on 12/23/2018 9:13:33 AM PST by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: upchuck

Clarice Bump!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all!


4 posted on 12/23/2018 9:39:18 AM PST by jazusamo (Have You Donated to Keep Free Republic Up and Running?)
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