Posted on 04/30/2020 8:25:24 AM PDT by Moseley
C-SPAN is publishing inaccurate transcripts of President Donald Trump’s remarks during the vitally important national coronavirus task force daily briefings.
Yes, really.
So Trump is being falsely attacked for what Trump never said (again). The worst of it, lately, is Trump asking questions to scientists. Those questions have been transformed into statements that Trump never made. But as I endeavored to clear up the fog, I was shocked to discover that C-SPAN’s textual transcript are the source of the confusion. The quotes that Trump haters are throwing around happen to be accurate reports of the inaccurate C-SPAN transcript.
Not everyone knows that www.C-SPAN.org preserves a repository of video records of newsworthy events. Not only can people watch events live on cable TV through C-SPAN, but if you missed it live, or want to study an event again, videos are available for viewing going back probably to 1995, searchable of course.
Those inside the political loop know this. Journalists are … well, in a hurry, shall we say. And news outlets are hurting financially. So when C-SPAN offers a textual transcript of the video, it is tempting when throwing together a newspaper article or television news script to simply lift the text transcript off the left-hand side of the screen at www.C-SPAN.org. Why watch the actual video record? It’s so much faster in a rush to just use the “cheat sheet” version from C-SPAN.
On April 23, 2020, after Homeland Security’s chief scientist William Bryan gave a presentation, Trump asked for clarification of the continuing, future research that would be on-going. See time segments 26:25 – 35:00 and 31:09 – 31:18 measured from the full video
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WTF?!
The Deep State is huge....
So the rats have even corrupted c-span.
“This transcript was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.”
Closed captioning is usually quite rough, with mistakes and bits left out.
Yeah, their ability to simply broadcast what was happening vs editorialize is their value. Incorrectly transcribing these broadcasts, purposely or not, instantly drops their credibility.
The long march through the institutions.
bkmk
#RESIST
Hildabeast called all leftist fedgov employees into action with that hashtag.
Appears to be true, this would not have happened when Brian Lamb was running it.
C-Span has been left leaning since I can remember, which is better than 40 years.
Follow the money. Who is the biggest contributor to C-SPAN? ComCrap.
And news outlets are hurting financially.
Self induced stupidity and TDS causes it.
bkmk
Partisan Media Shills update.
Note that CSpan is not a government operation. It’s run by the same lying lamestream media as the networks, et al.
C-SPAN also allows much more airtime to liberal RAT callers and often cuts off conservative voices during their Washington Journal shows, etc.
Ping
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