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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forumswhat has been the medias response to wh Doctoring the video
Just woke up, I see our media has said the WH released a doctored video of
the Jim acosta incident, please tell me the WH has been criticized apart for this,
by media outlets.
Hekate
(90,627 posts)We've had several OPs today bitching about how the shooting is getting "no coverage." However, I am hard put to wade through shooting coverage in order to find Mueller and Atty General coverage, so I don't know what their point is.
angstlessk
(11,862 posts)LAS14
(13,780 posts)... which show an intern touching Acosta are not the doctored version?
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,659 posts)That was CNN reporter Jim Acostas response to White House press secretary Sarah Sanderss accusation that he had placed his hands on a young woman just trying to do her job.
The original video of Acostas (non-) altercation with a press aide shows the aide grabbing the microphone in Acostas hand and Acostas wrist landing on her arm as he gesticulates downward. The version of the video Sanders shared late last night, courtesy of Infowars, makes Acostas movement appear accelerated so that he seems the aggressor, and the movement itself seems aggressive. There is a tortuous debate over to what extent the clip was deliberately distorted, but the effect is clear enough. Acosta looks like Sanders wants him to.
So Acosta is right: This is a lie. But no one agrees on what the truth is anymore, and thats exactly what Sanders was counting on.
And commentary from the NYT:
But it is Mr. Trump, with his incessant demonization of fake news and inflammatory characterization of news organizations as the enemy of the people, who has systematically and dangerously done everything in his power to undermine a free and independent press. That someone like Senator Lindsey Graham, the South Carolina Republican who surely knows better, joins in bashing the press underscores the effectiveness of Mr. Trumps poison.
Mr. Trump would no doubt prefer that every member of the White House press corps be like Sean Hannity or Jeanine Pirro, the Fox News personalities who happily joined the president onstage at his last pre-election campaign rally in Missouri on Monday. Mr. Hannity has long been an unapologetic booster of Mr. Trump, but even his colleagues and managers at Fox were aghast at his participation in the rally, at which he went so far as to join in attacking fake news reporters at the back of the room, among whom was a Fox News White House correspondent, Kristin Fisher.
Mr. Trump is not likely to temper his rhetoric. But those he listens to, including Ms. Sanders, Senator Graham and the executives at Fox News, should try to impress on him the danger of confounding loyalty to Donald Trump with loyalty to the Constitution and to democracy.
unblock
(52,181 posts)"no it's not"
"yes it is!"
"we do stuff like this all the time"
"no, this is not normal"
"if we do it all the time, then it's normal. and presidential."
"how can you say this is normal?"
"haven't you been paying attention? we just totally saturday night massacred our way out of the russia investigation! this is nothing!"
"but c'mon, framing a reporter, accusing him of assault?"
"consider it revenge for kavanaugh."
"that makes no sense at all!"
"see? totally normal."
world wide wally
(21,740 posts)Well, closer than their video