Scrutify: To pull apart, inspect, study, analyze. examine.
Why is the press giving Donald Trump a free ride? Does Donald Trump simply keep the press in his back pocket?
The public is loosing faith in the government and now the public is loosing faith in where they receive their news.
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President Elect Donald Trump seems to think that he can use his office as President to help his businesses across the globe. Only 12 days after winning the election, he has already tried to ask for a favor from the British Prime minister and has had his daughter Ivanka in meetings with two world leaders without as much as a security clearance. The Hypocrisy is staggering after Trump and his goons hounded Hillary Clinton with a mythical “Pay to Play” conspiracy theory over her involvement with the Clinton foundation. The question once again has to be raised, does Trump want to be President? Is it possible that he will use his office to secure a few favors and then leave Mike Pence holding the bag.
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Hugo Schwyzer, “…Perhaps Trump will be a better leader than we thought. The burden is entirely on him to prove that his campaign was an act, and that he and his followers pose no threat to women and minorities. Until then, suspicion. Until then, fear. Until then, anger. …” Read the Full Post at Times of Israel
Finally on November 22, 2016, Trump says, “I don’t want to energize the group, and I disavow the group” in an interview with the New York Times. Not a peep, though, from Trump’s Twitter account which seems his main source of disseminating news.
Think Progress points a finger at CNN for inaccurately broadening the meaning of “disavow”. Trumps carefully worded response to the New York Times interview said nothing about denouncing racism. CNN completely misreported the quote by showing a full screen graphic saying that Trump did just that.
Words DO matter when the media is trying to report the facts.
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What happens when a “news” organization steps so low, then are no longer covering the news.
.@CNN has a Trump surrogate problem, and it’s making the network’s election coverage unwatchable. https://t.co/fFL8FeOvuv pic.twitter.com/Os8xnzh3Lv
— Carlos Maza (@gaywonk) October 14, 2016
Chicken Noodle News is the story of how mavericks, misfits and dreamers faced huge odds (and sometimes each other) to build the world’s first all news network. CNN hired some professional people and some who pretended to be TV professionals.
Then there were the I’ve only been fired twice already, inexperienced nut jobs looking for a job in television. The only thing that held this unlikely crew together was fear. There were no life boats on the Chicken Noodle News Network.
This is not a chronological history of how CNN changed the news viewing habits of the world; John will leave that to Ted Turner and other visionaries.John was there through it all. This is his story.