The Literally 'Fake News' Thread

[ArcadiaGP]

... What the ****?

 

[actaeon277]

... What the ****?

They gotta complain about something.
Just like when they complain about tear gas, the border, and children.

 

[jamil]

... What the ****?

I'm telling you man, problematizing is a thing. It's taught in the grievance studies classes. You write a paper you're expected to find the social norm and problematize it. These people end up graduating and end up with jobs at crazy ass publications like Slate.

 

[churchmouse]

They gotta complain about something.
Just like when they complain about tear gas, the border, and children.

WTF are they thinking......This grab and hate thing has got to stop.

 

[Timjoebillybob]

He's literally comparing teargas (used in every country ever) to Zyklon B.

He missed the USA under at least the last 6 yrs under Obama. The border patrol used it over 1x per month, unknown use during the first 2 years.

... What the ****?

The Babylon Bee did it better.
https://babylonbee.com/news/melania...rating-white-house-with-skulls-of-her-enemies

 

[ArcadiaGP]

The widely-repeatedly story that George HW Bush was amazed by an ordinary supermarket scanner was bona fide, legitimate fake news.

 

[actaeon277]

The widely-repeatedly story that George HW Bush was amazed by an ordinary supermarket scanner was bona fide, legitimate fake news.

Even if it was true... who cares? Does anyone think the president hops down to the nearest supermarket for the week's groceries?

 

[jamil]

The widely-repeatedly story that George HW Bush was amazed by an ordinary supermarket scanner was bona fide, legitimate fake news.

One think we can say about Trump and the now ubiquitous term "fake news", he's pretty much blown away the highbrow non-response to lies. In the 90s the GOP still believed the old highbrow, "don't legitimize smears with a response." So they'd have surrogates try to counter those things publicly while underlings do it behind the scenes. Trump? "You're fake news." I have to admit, I like that better, at least when it's actually fake news.

As it was, even though the AP kicked the **** out of the Times story about Bush being mystified over common grocery checkout equipment, the myth persisted anyway. Bush should have said publicly, nah. The that's just the Times being full of ****.

 

[T.Lex]

Not sure if this fits but the St. Louis Post-Dispatch ran this article about the bump stock ban today:
https://www.stltoday.com/news/natio...cle_c0bedc97-17c9-5147-9f88-79a133371c97.html

Headline:

Exclusive: Trump administration to announce final bump stock ban

• By Evan Perez, Laura Jarrett and David Shortell, CNN
• 3 hrs ago

Fake part is that there's absolutely nothing "exclusive" about it. The article recycles an anonymous CNN source from earlier today. No local content that might be exclusive. Nothing.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

Not sure if this fits but the St. Louis Post-Dispatch ran this article about the bump stock ban today:
https://www.stltoday.com/news/natio...cle_c0bedc97-17c9-5147-9f88-79a133371c97.html

Headline:


Fake part is that there's absolutely nothing "exclusive" about it. The article recycles an anonymous CNN source from earlier today. No local content that might be exclusive. Nothing.

Kind of like using "Breaking News" for a shooting overnight in Indy. No, it's not "Breaking News"... it's just another night in Indy. Ho hum.

 

[Alamo]

Der Spiegel says top journalist faked stories for years
Publication says Claas Relotius committed journalistic fraud ‘on a grand scale’

...journalist Claas Relotius had, according to the weekly, “made up stories and invented protagonists” in at least 14 out of 60 articles that appeared in its print and online editions, warning that other outlets could also be affected.

Earlier this month, he won Germany’s Reporterpreis (Reporter of the Year) for his story about a young Syrian boy, which the jurors praised for its “lightness, poetry and relevance”. It has since emerged that all the sources for his reportage were at best hazy, and much of what he wrote was made up.

The falsification came to light after a colleague who worked with him on a story along the US-Mexican border raised suspicions about some of the details in Relotius’s reporting, having harboured doubts about him for some time.

The colleague, Juan Moreno, eventually tracked down two alleged sources quoted extensively by Relotius in the article, which was published in November. Both said they had never met Relotius. Relotius had also lied about seeing a hand-painted sign that read “Mexicans keep out”, a subsequent investigation found.

Wait for it...wait for it...

He had written for the magazine for seven years and won numerous awards for his investigative journalism, including CNN Journalist of the Year in 2014.

I googled this guy's name. So far the only ones reporting on this are European and Canadian media outlets. It appears Der Spiegel just announced this today. Will be interesting to see if this gets picked up by US media.

ETA: Der Spiegel announcement (in English): The Relotius Case - Answers to the Most Important Questions

 

[AmmoManAaron]

Fox News has picked it up now, at least on their website.

https://www.foxnews.com/world/germa...admitting-to-have-fabricated-multiple-stories

 

[rhino]

I'm shocked.

 

[Alamo]

I'm shocked.

Where's your face?

 

[Alamo]

Dont' Mess With Fergus Falls


Cliff's notes: Same guy, Claas Relotius, wrote a story on Fergus Falls in Minnesota about what a bunch of Neolithic Trumpkins live there. A couple locals took umbrage with this and wrote a weapons-grade Fisking of his article, which they note:

In 7,300 words he really only got our town’s population and average annual temperature correct, and a few other basic things, like the names of businesses and public figures, things that a child could figure out in a Google search.

The rest he made up.

The takedown: https://medium.com/@micheleanderson...messed-with-the-wrong-small-town-d92f3e0e01a7

 

[jamil]

Dont' Mess With Fergus Falls


Cliff's notes: Same guy, Claas Relotius, wrote a story on Fergus Falls in Minnesota about what a bunch of Neolithic Trumpkins live there. A couple locals took umbrage with this and wrote a weapons-grade Fisking of his article, which they note:



The rest he made up.

The takedown: https://medium.com/@micheleanderson...messed-with-the-wrong-small-town-d92f3e0e01a7

It doeson't matter. No one who doesn't already know it's bull**** will ever read it. And some people are ideologically incapable of ever knowing it's bull****.

 

[AmmoManAaron]

 

[printcraft]

Max Boot "columnist" would fit in well with some here.

 

[Phase2]

List of major fake news stories for 2018. The list is too long to summarize here, but definitely worth scanning to show to depth of MSM malfeasance.

Here Are The Most Egregious Fake News Stories Of 2018

 

[ArcadiaGP]

CNN gonna CNN.