12/19/2019 8:21:20 PM · by yesthatjallen · 34 replies
The Hill ^ | December 19, 2019 | Marina Pitofsky
And recently CBS showed a photo of Elijah Cummings and said it was John Lewis.
Maybe idiots are running these TV channels?
[And recently CBS showed a photo of Elijah Cummings and said it was John Lewis.
Maybe idiots are running these TV channels?]
1984 all over again!
Maybe??????
Such a nobody - even the media doesn't know who he is.
Several decades ago, I was working in California, and would read the LA Times on the bus, on my way to work. I discovered that the Times routinely 'played fast & loose' with their photos/captions. Some examples (from memory):
Photo of lawn at Central Receiving Hospital, with campers (after Whittier Narrows quake); caption stated it was lawn at LA City Hall.
Photo of British King George V class battleship; caption stated it was German battleship Bismarck.
Photo of full-auto MAC10 being fired (with about a dozen empty cases visible in the air); caption described it as semi-auto 'assault weapon'.
Photo of RMS Titanic on builder's trials, prior to transfer to White Star Line; caption declared it was the same ship 'departing on its ill-fated maiden voyage'.
I wrote the paper on multiple occasions, pointing out the errors; but the discrepancies continued, suggesting that the Times was far more interested in dramatic photos & captions, than accurate reporting. I very quickly stopped reading the rag; if they couldn't even get simple photo captions correct, God only knows what kind of crap they were churning out in their 'news' articles.
Traditionally, we Americans have equated the term 'news' with 'the truth'. Today's 'journalists', however, seem to be entirely focused on selling a 'product' to viewers or readers, and anything resembling 'the truth' is definitely optional...