1600 retweets and counting for this tweet from Reuters reporter Dustin Volz saying, “Trump national security aides put his name in their briefing docs as much as possible so he will keep reading them.”
But check out the source. It’s just a “source” with no explanation on who it might be. And even worse? The source is just relaying what he heard in private conversations with other anonymous “NSC officials.”
Trump national security aides put his name in their briefing docs as much as possible so he will keep reading them https://t.co/TTZfbKsy67 pic.twitter.com/rTm1r11EN0
— Dustin Volz (@dnvolz) May 17, 2017
To other reporters, however, it’s a fact:
Amazing https://t.co/uGPEJ4AMhF
— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) May 17, 2017
Unreal. https://t.co/wGvt0NnszQ
— Ishaan Tharoor (@ishaantharoor) May 17, 2017
-Establish Rules for Homework
-Manage Distractions
-Praise and Positivity
Get more Democracy Stabilizing tips from the Kumon Learning Centre https://t.co/IBaK0IXsIF— Tabatha Southey (@TabathaSouthey) May 17, 2017
good job america https://t.co/tpVs3vuRbt
— Jesse Berney (@jesseberney) May 17, 2017
No words https://t.co/ecIaJRveyw
— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) May 17, 2017
They’re not just the least be curious on who this single source is and his or her political leanings? Has the source been critical of Trump in the past. Is the source a Republican or Democrat? How high up the chain of command are the “NSC officials”? Come on, people!
And this says more about the media than it does the White House when “stuff like this gets written about the president”:
Whether you believe this is true or not, says a lot about this WH that stuff like this gets written about the president. https://t.co/dYK6Cmcri3
— Abby D. Phillip (@abbydphillip) May 17, 2017
