If you take only one lesson from the events of last year, let it be this: not only is the media not to be trusted but it will blatantly lie if it advances its and its allies’ interests.
Since the election turned out very differently from how their polls and analysts predicted it would, a crisis of confidence has befallen the press as it tries to cope with how it got this one spectacularly wrong. Instead of engaging in introspection and realizing that indulging their prejudices may have had the effect of insulating from the pulse of America, they searched far and wide for someone – or something – to blame and sure enough, they found it.
Right now, the meme being passed around as responsible for Donald Trump’s victory is “fake news”, a label the stigmatizes alternative sources of information and ignores the mainstream media’s own pushing of false narratives.
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Drain the swap.
It’s all good .
way over staffed
Media needs to be held accountable it’s past editorial bias
What the Post lied about, however, was that the staff didn’t resign but that they were fired, as the White House prepares to place figures more attuned to its agenda:
From CNN’s full story on the matter:
All four, career officers serving in positions appointed by the President, submitted letters of resignation per tradition at the beginning of a new administration.
The letters from the White House said that their resignations were accepted and they were thanked for their service.
The White House usually asks career officials in such positions to stay on for a few months until their successors are confirmed.
“Any implication that that these four people quit is wrong,” one senior State Department official said. “These people are loyal to the secretary, the President and to the State Department. There is just not any attempt here to dis the President. People are not quitting and running away in disgust. This is the White House cleaning house.”
“These positions are political appointments, and require the President to nominate and the Senate to confirm them in these roles. They are not career appointments but of limited term,” said State Department spokesman Mark Toner. “Of the officers whose resignations were accepted, some will continue in the Foreign Service in other positions, and others will retire by choice or because they have exceeded the time limits of their grade in service.”
most of them are fired anyway lol
At this point the integrity of the American media/press has completely collapsed…..who even watches them or reads their papers. The Trump administration would be wholly justified if it revoked ALL the press passes for the major news agencys and gave others a chance to be in the Washington press pool…. I mean wouldn’t it be nice to see a little guy like the Walla Walla Gazette or the Sweetwater Post have a turn at the next Press Conferance 😀
“F**e News: Washington Post Says State Dept. Officials Staged “Mass Resignations” to Protest Trump”……..and this is a BAD thing? Self-draining swamp, you main media news ho Washington Post-y…….
They were being fired anyways stupid. Getting Obamas c**p people out they would not be trust worthy as 10 to 20% of the government work force is go to be fired in Washington anyways….Good job President Trump!!!
Media is a big problem
fired.