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Full Measure After Hours

EP 025 | What the media's mistakes tell us about the state of the news today

Full Measure After Hours

Sharyl Attkisson

News, News Commentary

4.91.4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2019

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Thanksgiving Day there was a doozie of an anti-Trump media mistake. What does it tell us about the state of journalism? It's not good. Visit SharylAttkisson.com and look for my list of Media Mistakes in the Era of Trump. Subscribe to my podcasts: "Full Measure After Hours" and "The Sharyl Attkisson Podcast." --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/sharylattkisson/support See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0

Hi everybody welcome to another edition of the Cheryl Ackison Podcast. Today we're going to to look at some I think pretty important anti-Trump media

0:16.8

misreporting.

0:18.0

The point isn't to pick on anybody in particular.

0:21.0

It's to learn what the latest media mistakes in the era of Trump tell us

0:25.5

about some badly broken journalism.

0:31.6

The misreporting occurred on Thanksgiving Day and it made number 100 on my

0:38.7

list of major media mistakes in the era of Trump. You can go to my website Cheryl Ackison.com

0:45.0

and search for media mistakes and you'll see the whole list.

0:49.0

Number 100 was committed by a political writer at Newsweek.

0:52.0

The writer by the, called it an honest

0:55.0

mistake, but I suggest it's something far more serious from a journalistic standpoint, and

1:00.6

I'm going to explain why.

1:05.0

First we'll review the errors. Newsweek's Jessica Kwong wrote,

1:07.0

on Thanksgiving,

1:08.0

this is a tweet.

1:10.0

How is Trump spending Thanksgiving,

1:12.0

tweeting, golfing, and more?

1:15.0

And it linked to her article.

1:17.0

She also wrote,

1:18.0

President Donald Trump has been spending his Thanksgiving holidays

1:21.0

at his Maralaga Resort in Palm Beach, Florida, which he calls the Winter White House, and this year is no exception.

1:29.0

This turned out to be untrue.

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