EP 025 | What the media's mistakes tell us about the state of the news today
Full Measure After Hours
Sharyl Attkisson
4.9 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 5 December 2019
⏱️ 15 minutes
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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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