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The Moron Obama does not understand Journalism.

Hawkeye10 said:
You report what he said and leave it at that. You trust the people. You most certainly dont go "You know of course that he is lying and is not suitable for the presidency". Not if you are a real journalist you dont. Acting like you are in charge of the gates of truth when the people have the internet and thus dont need your gate is about the dumbest thing I have seen the elite do, and they sure have sure come up with some doozies.

The bolded claims is problematic, for a couple of reasons.

First, it's not clear that this, exactly, is the sort of thing Obama wants the press to do.

Second, and more importantly, your postion is not consistent. If Trump lies, it's a fact that he lied. If the point of the press is to report facts, it is just as incumbent upon them to report that fact as any other.

One reason a press exists is that the world is complex. If you acknowledge that people need a press to report what a candidate said, you cannot deny that people need a press to report that a candidate's claim about (say) some complex financial transaction, or some geographically remote event, is false.

Ideally, the way that this would be done is that the claim would be reported, and then the contradictory fact. Based on my observation of the reporting done so far this campaign season, this is just what the press is not doing, usually.
 
Obama speaking to journalists of Trump v Clinton:

President Obama: the media is completely failing to hold Donald Trump to account - Vox

The job of the journalist is to report the truth, it is not to assign value to the truth, that is for the people to decide.

The same guy who is always sure that he is the smartest guy in any room is actually really pretty stupid.

He's had a life of having the way cleared for him.

He's the least qualified person in virtually every room he enters.

What's he ever done, and what's he ever accomplished before becoming POTUS? Pretty close to a goose egg.
 
He's had a life of having the way cleared for him.

He's the least qualified person in virtually every room he enters.

What's he ever done, and what's he ever accomplished before becoming POTUS? Pretty close to a goose egg.

For that matter what did he accomplish after? The world seems to be melting, and Trump is here, on his watch.
 
The bolded claims is problematic, for a couple of reasons.

First, it's not clear that this, exactly, is the sort of thing Obama wants the press to do.

Second, and more importantly, your postion is not consistent. If Trump lies, it's a fact that he lied. If the point of the press is to report facts, it is just as incumbent upon them to report that fact as any other.

One reason a press exists is that the world is complex. If you acknowledge that people need a press to report what a candidate said, you cannot deny that people need a press to report that a candidate's claim about (say) some complex financial transaction, or some geographically remote event, is false.

Ideally, the way that this would be done is that the claim would be reported, and then the contradictory fact. Based on my observation of the reporting done so far this campaign season, this is just what the press is not doing, usually.

Not ideally...it would be done if we had halfway decent journalists. Leave it to the commentators to do the opining that Trump is not fit for the job if anyone is to do that, the journalists need to stick to Trumps assertions and their relationship to understood facts. If "contextualizing" was confined to this I would be fine, but what we get is "journalists" trying to sell the story that Trump is not fit, and that those who support him care about the wrong things or are stupid, which is not their place, We The People make those calls, not them. Robert Gates just called Trump unfit, which is fine because he is not a journalist, and journalists should report that, but if a journalist has that opinion then they need to keep it to themselves, and do the best to keep their personal opinions from infecting their work.

I have a feeling that Trump will get positive feedback by way of support for that dog and pony show he ran in DC at his new hotel, because the "journalists" suck, showing them up and mocking them is fitting payback after all of their incompetence and getting too big for their britches.
 
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