This is really getting ridiculous... There hasn't been a president in my lifetime that's offered the media such an abundance of legitimate things for them to criticize, yet they continue churning out fake stories to attack him with. The American News Media hasn't damaged it's credibility with this behavior, it has completely destroyed it and I for one am very saddened by this. I never thought I would see the day when partisan politics would run roughshod over journalistic integrity, but here we are.
Fake News Story #1:
CNN Money
published a story yesterday titled
“Trump asks Japan to build cars in the U.S. It already does.” In a speech Trump gave to Japanese auto executives, CNN took the president's words out of context to imply that he had no idea that there are Japanese auto manufacturing plants in the US and have been for several decades. The quoted Trump in the story saying:
“Try building your cars in the United States instead of shipping them over,” Trump said. “Is that possible to ask? That's not rude. Is that rude? I don't think so.”
The followed that up with:
"Japanese automakers have tried: The country's big three car companies already have huge factories in the U.S., and their production in the country is at a record high."
Like Trump had no idea that those auto plants existed. Here's the transcript of what the president said, with the part that CNN Money used for their story in red:
When you want to build your auto plants, you will have your approvals almost immediately. When you want to expand your plants, you will have your approvals almost immediately. And in the room, we have a couple of the great folks from two of the biggest auto companies in the world that are building new plants and doing expansions of other plants. And you know who you are, and I want to just thank you very much. I want to thank you.
I also want to recognize the business leaders in the room whose confidence in the United States — they've been creating jobs — you have such confidence in the United States, and you've been creating jobs for our country for a long, long time. Several Japanese automobile industry firms have been really doing a job. And we love it when you build cars — if you're a Japanese firm, we love it — try building your cars in the United States instead of shipping them over. Is that possible to ask? That's not rude. Is that rude? I don't think so. (Laughter.) If you could build them. But I must say, Toyota and Mazda — where are you? Are you here, anybody? Toyota? Mazda? I thought so. Oh, I thought that was you. That's big stuff. Congratulations. Come on, let me shake your hand. (Applause.) They're going to invest $1.6 billion in building a new manufacturing plant, which will create as many as 4,000 new jobs in the United States. Thank you very much. Appreciate it.
The story was published yesterday morning at 6:51 Eastern time, and CNN Money did eventually replace it with one that reflected the truth of what Trump said... Of course CNN Money displaying their lack of journalistic integrity, just switched the story out and didn't bother issuing a correction or mentioning the errors that were contained in the original story which was picked up by several media outlets.
A few of those who ran with it were Slate, The Hill and CBS's White House reporter, Mark Knoller.
View attachment 67224672
This was so blatantly false that Aaron Blake
wrote a story in the Washington Post titled
"Stop cherry-picking that Trump quote about Japanese cars. It’s not what you think."
Fake News Story #2:
CNN is again at the center of BS, this time they use an edited video and
a story to imply that Trump broke some kind of Japanese fish-feeding protocol, which of course was picked up once again by several media outlets. They did the same thing as they had done with the car story and replaced the video and updated the story.
View attachment 67224673
For full details of this one, go
here.
How shameful. Leftists have turned the American news media into an utter disgrace.
.
