You must know by now that TIME’s powerful cover of Donald Trump staring down at a crying child separated from her family at the border is bogus; the child and her mother were never separated, she wasn’t seeking amnesty, and the photographer caught the crying child at the moment her mother put her down to be searched by the border patrol.
Earlier Saturday morning, NBC’s Chuck Todd stood up for TIME, noting that it “wasn’t a good look” to point out their false narrative.
It’s not a good look on some when they act so self righteous about Time and consistently look the other way on their favorite media outlet. Two wrongs never make a right.
— Chuck Todd (@chucktodd) June 23, 2018
Focus — we’re talking about one wrong: TIME’s. The one that has progressives chasing people out of restaurants because they’re so worked up over media coverage of things that happened during the Obama administration.
*Hands Chuck a mirror
— Andy Lancaster (@andylancaster) June 23, 2018
Oh this is rich coming from you.
— Kevin Hooks (@hookey12) June 23, 2018
So, better to just look the other way across the board like you and NBC?
— Jody Barrett (@thegroveguru) June 23, 2018
Glad to see you recognize the Time disaster as a wrong.
— Tom Ferguson (@ferguson_twf) June 23, 2018
Referring to any particular outlet Chuck?
— Sam (@Sam06136058) June 23, 2018
Falling back on the familiar “Republicans pounce” formula, Oliver Darcy wrote in CNN’s email blast about how “the pro-Trump media weaponized the mistake.” (Funny how those who called out TIME on bad reporting are assumed to be pro-Trump.)
Guild mentality. Gotta protect your people, even when they lie. And they think they're different, in fact better, than those Trump supporters who cover for everything he does. https://t.co/RjzshufmOT
— Mo Mo (@molratty) June 24, 2018
The story from the so-called "Reliable Sources" guy isn't the lie itself. It's just whining about people talking about it as part of a bigger problem. And the circle just keeps going round and round and round.
— Mo Mo (@molratty) June 24, 2018
If you object to an untruth- you are weaponizing?
— susan price (@sbprice) June 24, 2018
If you expect professional journalists to fact-check their stories before publishing them in a race to establish the narrative, that’s a bad look?
Reminds me of the fake Bush memo controversy and Dan Rather. I remember Rather and others in the media dishonestly arguing that the memo about Bush's military service might have been false, but it was accurate. Deja vu all over again.
— 哎呀 ? (@catholiclawyer) June 24, 2018
Yep.
Related:
Fake news: CNN's Chris Cillizza explains why TIME's (debunked) cover is so powerful https://t.co/JaDNGvauwz
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) June 23, 2018
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