On Wednesday, January 17, 2017, President Donald Trump announced his first ever Fake News Awards.
He did not announce them by voice, but RSBN did a great job going through every item:
On Monday, January 15, Politico quoted ‘experts’ — including Republicans — who said that Fake News Awards could violate White House and ethics rules.
That’s rich. Big Media are violating ethics rules every day by reporting falsehoods lies.
The president’s tweet appeared later than scheduled. The Washington Post was quick to pounce before …
… and after …
But, once again, Fakey winner WaPo was wrong.
The GOP (Republican Party) page crashed from all the traffic:
This generated a greater American buzz than big-ticket award ceremonies:
Gateway Pundit reported (emphases mine):
Internet giants Google, Twitter and AOL publish the most popular trending subjects. And Wednesday night the most popular subject on all three sites was Trump’s Fake News Awards.
Even the trendy celeb news site TMZ covered it:
President Donald Trump came through on presenting “The Fakies” … his 2017 Fake News Awards. He teased it up as “The Most Dishonest and Corrupt Media Awards of the Year” … and here are the HUGE winners (losers?) in his words. No shocker, CNN took the most trophies.
The tweet below has a screenshot of the winners, as posted on Legal Insurrection:
The GOP rightly introduced the results — including sources — with this:
2017 was a year of unrelenting bias, unfair news coverage, and even downright fake news. Studies have shown that over 90% of the media’s coverage of President Trump is negative.
That is true.
Paul Krugman discredited
How wrong could Paul Krugman be? This is what happens when personal bias obliterates objectivity:
Donald J Thump — of Thump: The First Bundred Days — tweeted:
Here’s a page from the book, for children — and adults — alike:
Nothing for CNN’s Acosta
CNN’s Jim Acosta did not receive a Fakey:
He was told to leave after a press briefing in the Oval Office the other day in front of President Nursultan Nazarbayev of Kazakhstan.
Of course, Acosta paints himself to be a victim:
That was far from his first offence against Trump and his administration, which dates back to the post-election transition period in 2016.
Regarding this incident and Acosta’s history, The Conservative Treehouse sums it up perfectly:
CNN Chief White House Correspondent Jim Acosta has a history of rude journalistic behavior and disrespect that has never before been allowed in the White House.
… the CNN journalist exhibited a level of disrespectful behavior that should lead to his White House press credentials being revoked permanently.
In a lesser offence, last year, Acosta insisted that CNN reports the truth:
This is how Big Media see themselves:
How public sees media
This is the most accurate description summing up the media:
Praying Medic has a good take on Big Media stories from the past year, starting at No. 12:
Someone replied with this item about MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow:
Fake news remembered
Many of us remember not only the fake news but also the omissions from the news cycle in 2016:
Fake news can cost lives.
What will it take for these ridiculously overpaid so-and-sos to stop it?
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