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Moliere

(285 posts)
Sun Sep 18, 2016, 01:46 PM Sep 2016

Media Template for Responding to Trump’s Lies

Absolute perfect piece and instructions from Barry Ritholtz

http://ritholtz.com/2016/09/media-template-responding-lies-donald-trump/


How should the media respond when a Presidential candidate is caught lying? I don’t mean the small political prevarications that all politicians engage in — I refer to the uniquely outsized bullshit that has been dominating this election cycle.

So far, the mainstream press has been doing a mostly terrible job. However, that may be changing. To wit: Presidential candidate Donald Trump held a news conference Friday morning...
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Media Template for Responding to Trump’s Lies (Original Post) Moliere Sep 2016 OP
It seems, at least from observation, that the media has become justhanginon Sep 2016 #1

justhanginon

(3,290 posts)
1. It seems, at least from observation, that the media has become
Sun Sep 18, 2016, 02:22 PM
Sep 2016

nothing more than what could be called the Trump steno pool.

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