NBC Shows The Difference Between Responsible Journalism And Fake News With Cohen Correction

[yallerdawg]

Source: PoliticusUSA, by Jason 'Keepin' It Real' Easley


Before Trump and his allies jump on NBC News for correcting their report about Michael Cohen being wiretapped, ask yourself when has Donald Trump ever corrected any of his intentionally false statements? (Hint: The answer is he never has).

Responsible journalism isn’t making a false statement and repeating it, as Trump and his conservative media allies often do. Responsible journalism means putting the facts first so that corrections can be explained and people come away better informed.

Trump and his friends will use this correction to discredit the Cohen investigation, but the original point still stands. The President Of The United States was caught in surveillance related to a criminal investigation. The fact that NBC News had to correct a detail doesn’t change the big picture.

Trump and Cohen are in real trouble, and instead of raking NBC News over the coals people should be learning from their example of what responsible journalism is supposed to be.

Read it all at: https://www.politicususa.com/2018/05/03/nbc-michael-cohen-wiretap-correction.html

[Doodley]

1. Yep, Trump has told 3001 lies and how many has he corrected? Zero.

[Lucky Luciano]

12. Probably 3021 by now!! LOL!

[emulatorloo]

2. Kick and Rec

[sheshe2]

3. Yuppers.

[yallerdawg]

8. Gotta keep squeezin' these lemons life hands us...

to get that real sweet, good lemonade!

[sheshe2]

13. True.

Hey. I haven't been around much and when I am it is brief.

[yallerdawg]

14. It's kind of the deep breath...

before the Summer Primaries, and then "we'll get so tired of winning again!"

[sheshe2]

15. Bwahahahaha

Works for me!

I am so in the mood to kick ass. 2018 AND 2020.

[yallerdawg]

16. If I lose some 'comfort' weight after a great deal of stress...

I just might yet live long enough to see our first female president, she!

[sheshe2]

17. Stick around, yallerdawg.

It is going to happen.

[Cha]

4. Thank you, yallerdawg and politicususa

[yallerdawg]

7. Jason Easley and PoliticusUSA are a treasure!

No doubt we are on the right side of ALL this!

[Mme. Defarge]

5. Agreed!

With “breaking news” happening 24/7, to err from time to time is certainly human. To acknowledge, retract and apologize is a testament to admirable ethics and professionalism.

[yallerdawg]

9. And, Fox News:

New embarrassment for NBC as network corrects itself on Cohen wiretap story (no link, just headline - it's Fox News)

Right next to promotional links to (it's Fox News):

Kate Upton's hottest shots

Star's dress comes off completely

Just what you want from a professional news organization.

[Scurrilous]

6. K&R

[BobTheSubgenius]

10. Grasping at.....what now?

Straws? They are desperately looking for any tiny distraction to turn down the head 5 degrees for a few minutes. As they feel more and more cornered, watch some of the idiocy that ensues.

Their rhetoric will be worthy of Big Fish.

[Grokenstein]

11. I'm reminded of Dan Rather

...and the George W. Bush memo. The gist of the memo was true--but because the memo itself was not, and was reported on before being fully vetted, the Republicans were able to turn the entire issue into "fake news." It'll work this time as well, if only on Trump's hardcore base.

[Eliot Rosewater]

18. To this day the memo has not been proven to be a false document or forgery.

It probably is real.