As CNN continues to brand themselves as “Facts First,” one of their reporters was spotted not presenting the facts first about President Trump’s visit to China:
sigh pic.twitter.com/91ofCT5bp2
— Alex Griswold (@HashtagGriswold) November 9, 2017
This tweet currently has well over a thousand retweets:
Trump just became the first US president since George H.W. Bush to not take questions from reporters alongside his Chinese counterpart on his first visit here. Clinton, G.W. Bush & Obama all made a point of doing it.
— Jeremy Diamond (@JDiamond1) November 9, 2017
But then…
Correction: Obama also did not take questions with his counterpart during his first visit. He & Xi did during a subsequent trip in 2014. https://t.co/Q76KocaIiB
— Jeremy Diamond (@JDiamond1) November 9, 2017
The correction, as usually happens, has a fraction the number of retweets as the original #FakeNews.
Classic. The lie gets 1K+ retweets, the correction barely 15. And then they wonder why Americans don't trust them. #FakeNews pic.twitter.com/98NzRJAFKi
— Storm Paglia (@storm_paglia) November 9, 2017
Ah, “journalism”!
— Cameron Gray (@Cameron_Gray) November 9, 2017
I'm confused @CNN so is this an apple or a banana???
— JJ (@transcended) November 9, 2017
But hey, .05% of people noticed the correction!
— Ty Andersen (@AndersenTy) November 9, 2017
Just like that. The original tweet has an incredible amount of retweets and this will have barely any. Journalism is dead. https://t.co/1MjrH4RfcN
— IAmSilky???? (@IAmVerySilky) November 9, 2017
Ten likes, ten retweets… vs. the original tweeet which is still earning it’s clickbait rewards, over 1,200 retweets & nearly 3,000 likes.
— Allan Chambers (@ChambersAllan) November 9, 2017
This is CNN’s header on their Twitter page:
Just not ALL the time.
