C-SPAN posting inaccurate transcripts of Trump briefings

C-SPAN is publishing inaccurate transcripts of President Donald Trump’s remarks during the vitally important national coronavirus task force daily briefings.

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

I'm glad that somebody finally picked up on this.

I posted this portion of the briefing four days ago:

What's not being said is that President Trump corrected himself about "injection" a few minutes later in the briefing.
Here is the part of the briefing where President Trump speaks of "injection." It occurs 25 minutes into the briefing.
Four minutes later in the same briefing, President Trump corrects himself after a question from Jon Karl.

Karl: The President mentioned the idea of a cleaner, like bleach or isopropyl alcohol... there's no scenario where that can be injected into a person, is there?
President Trump: It wouldn't be through injection. I was referring to a cleaning, sterilization of an area. Maybe it works, maybe it doesn't work, but it certainly has a big effect if it's on a stationary object.

In order for the "inject Lysol" meme to work, the MSM has to ignore the comments made just four minutes later. Bias by omission is one the major ways that the MSM corrupts the reporting of the news.

I didn't know the part about C-SPAN altering the transcripts, but I did know that the MSM was omitting President Trump's clarifying statements a few minutes later in the same briefing.

Apparently, the story was too good for the MSM to ruin with a fact-check.

-PJ

Never trusted any .gov site during the previous administration but the Whitehouse site has accurate transcriptions of the press briefings: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-vice-president-pence-members-coronavirus-task-force-press-briefing-31/

Someone usually posted them on FR, but I never could find the one for April 23.

Yes, thank you for pushing for the truth.

it is always a battle especially to get the word out.

But I kept arguing with leftists and they kept insisting that Trump said what he did not say.

So I finally figured out that they were quoting to the wrong information.

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