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Wednesday, 8 February 2017
quote [ President Trump met Tuesday morning with a group of sheriffs from the National Sheriffs Association, a group that consists of more than 3,000 sheriffs from around the country. And to this sworn group of law enforcement veterans, with reporters taking notes, he again repeated a falsehood about the murder rate in America.
Trump told the sheriffs, “the murder rate in our country is the highest it’s been in 47 years.” He blamed the news media for not publicizing this development, then added, “But the murder rate is the highest it’s been in, I guess, 45 to 47 years.” ] I just hope that someone in the room pointed this out to him, but I doubt it. Sigh...
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sanepride said @ 7:29pm GMT on 8th February
I'm not advocating ignoring the lies, I think it's perfectly appropriate for the mainstream press to call them out, as WaPo did here. Problem is when we call each one out the bigger issues get lost. If anything there's a strategy here to saturate the reporting environment with so much bullshit that the important, really dangerous stuff gets lost in the mix. That's what helps him. Obviously there's not much we can do about how the media deals with this, but in our own little SE posting microcosm we can try to set a standard of importance. My approach has been posting on larger, cumulative issues, trying to emphasize public impact and resistance, maybe including some of the bigger splashes from the bullshit fountain.
What about something like a weekly roundup?
sanepride said @ 7:30pm GMT on 8th February
I'm not advocating ignoring the lies, I think it's perfectly appropriate for the mainstream press to call them out, as WaPo did here. Problem is when we call each one out the bigger issues get lost. If anything there's a strategy here to saturate the reporting environment with so much bullshit that the important, really dangerous stuff gets lost in the mix. That's what helps him. Obviously there's not much we can do about how the media deals with this, but in our own little SE posting microcosm we can try to set a standard of importance. My approach has been posting on larger, cumulative issues, trying to emphasize public impact and resistance, maybe including some of the bigger splashes from the bullshit fountain.
What about something like a weekly lie roundup?
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sanepride said @ 7:29pm GMT on 8th February
I'm not advocating ignoring the lies, I think it's perfectly appropriate for the mainstream press to call them out, as WaPo did here. Problem is when we call each one out the bigger issues get lost. If anything there's a strategy here to saturate the reporting environment with so much bullshit that the important, really dangerous stuff gets lost in the mix. That's what helps him. Obviously there's not much we can do about how the media deals with this, but in our own little SE posting microcosm we can try to set a standard of importance. My approach has been posting on larger, cumulative issues, trying to emphasize public impact and resistance, maybe including some of the bigger splashes from the bullshit fountain.
What about something like a weekly lie roundup?
