Lies, omissions and false fact checks – a banner week for media disinformationhttps://nypost.com/2021/09/06/breaking-down-a-week-of-media-disinformation/Last week, USA Today decided to fact check reality. Presented with a photo of President Biden checking his watch during the return of dead US service members to American soil, reporter Daniel Funke said that was “wrong.” ...
No, Funke insisted, Biden only checked his watch after the ceremony was over. No matter that military family members were already quoted saying the president did it multiple times.
Then, calamity. Pictures revealed that Biden checked his watch at least three times. ...
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When you can’t fact check, meanwhile, just ignore. The New York Times and CNN didn’t cover Biden’s impatience at all. It sounds like a broken record these days, but can you imagine what would have happened if President Trump had checked his watch at a military funeral? ...
Actually, one doesn’t need to imagine this at all — since the Times just showed exactly how differently it treats the presidents of two different parties. We all remember the “help me out here Ukraine” phone call that led to Trump’s first impeachment, and The Times covered wall-to-wall. Well, Reuters reveals that Biden had an “Afghanistan help me out here” phone call to President Ashraf Ghani, asking him to say the Taliban weren’t winning, “whether it’s true or not.” Biden was desperate to keep to his timetable to pull out of the country before 9/11, and, yes, to benefit himself politically.
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... Rolling Stone (yes, they are still publishing, who knew) ran a story saying that rural hospitals were flooded with people who overdosed on ivermectin, a horse dewormer being promoted as a COVID cure, to the point that gunshot victims were being turned away. Other outlets rushed to pick this up ...
Lies can be told, and lies can be by withhold.
