🐱 Fake News Awards

  • Want to keep track of this thread?
    Accounts can bookmark posts, watch threads for updates, and jump back to where you stopped reading.
    Create account
CatParty
upload_2018-1-17_8-50-5.png


https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/950103659337134080
https://archive.is/CpKua

don't just sperg, guys, collect content, pls
 
Click to expand...
Awards has to go to CNN after they threatened to dox that guy who made the WWE+CNN GIF meme.
 
My speculation for the winners is:

  • CNN-because they have the largest hateboner for Trump and tossed any credibility they had out the window due to their incessant Trump sperging and ridiculous stories and coverage. What a hill to die on.
  • MSNBC-because they hate anything to the right by nature, so it's nothing really personal on Trump.
  • BBC-They almost went full CNN. They'd rather cover Trump than their own country's messes.
  • Washington Post-Pretty much the CNN of newspapers
  • AP/Slate/NYT/The Atlantic-Pretty much the MSNBC's of newspapers
Then...
  • The Guardian/Buzzfeed/Vox/Salon/Alternet/The Root/Viceetc.-Probably won't even get mentioned since that would actually give them attention and clicks.
 
King n Yellow said:
CNN-because they have the largest hateboner for Trump and tossed any credibility they had out the window due to their incessant Trump sperging and ridiculous stories and coverage. What a hill to die on.
Click to expand...
All the editors got together, had a meeting. Head honcho walks in and announces that he has a plan of action, that he's going to give them all some advice. He says that there's a force in the universe that could make things happen for them. He even goes so far as to say that all they had to do to save America from the dreaded cheetoman was get in touch with said force. To stop thinking, let things happen. To be the Trump. Be the Trump.
A year of non-stop coverage and "high-energy" defamation later, it's pretty clear that strategy didn't work. They can't even beat him at tweeting stupid shit, try as their anchors might.
 
Last edited:
Stephen Colbert actually took out a for your consideration ad, a few weeks ago.

Colbert for your consideration.jpg

Fallon and Colbert have done bits on it recently as well.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/life...sident-trump-his-fake-news-awards/1039401001/

They have not released much info on the awards, but the funny thing is that there is a story in the Wall Street Journal that Steve Bannon will be telling all to Mueller.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/fbi-subpoenas-steve-bannon-in-russia-probe-1516201958

WASHINGTON—Federal agents have issued a subpoena to former presidential adviser Steve Bannon, who plans to fully cooperate with special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election, a person close to Mr. Bannon said.

FBI agents arrived last week at Mr. Bannon’s home in Washington, D.C.’s Capitol Hill neighborhood, where the now estranged confidant of President Donald Trump referred them to William Burck, an attorney he had hired hours earlier to represent him in a separate House Intelligence Committee investigation, the person said. Mr. Burck then agreed to accept the subpoena on Mr. Bannon’s behalf.

Mr. Bannon will “tell all to Mueller” while declining to answer questions about his White House and presidential transition tenure in the House inquiry, the person close to Mr. Bannon said.

“Mueller is a much meaner hombre than Congress, and Bannon has no problem telling him anything he wants to know about,” the person said.

On Tuesday, Mr. Bannon spent more than 10 hours meeting behind closed doors with the House Intelligence Committee, with much of the time taken up by negotiations over his testimony as part of the congressional probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Mr. Bannon refused to answer some questions from Congress despite having been subpoenaed by the House committee while he was giving testimony.

Mr. Bannon told lawmakers that he was willing to answer questions but that he had been asked by the White House not to disclose details about his time in the administration and the presidential transition between administrations.

Though his appearance before the House committee was at first voluntary, he was issued a mandatory subpoena by the committee in the middle of the meeting to force him to testify. Even after being issued the subpoena, Mr. Bannon remained unwilling to answer some of the questions, citing a request from White House attorneys, Republican and Democratic lawmakers emerging from the meeting told reporters.

“This was effectively a gag order by the White House preventing this witness from answering almost any question concerning his time in the transition or the administration and many questions even after he left the administration,” said Rep. Adam Schiff (D, Calif.), the top Democrat on the panel.

The White House is claiming that executive privilege governs any information Congress wants from Mr. Bannon’s stint in the White House and the presidential transition, the person close to Mr. Bannon said.

Mr. Bannon’s stance is that no executive privilege exists “within” the executive branch, given that Mr. Mueller, appointed by the Justice Department, “is part of the executive branch.” Executive privilege applies between branches of government, the person said. Mr. Bannon, the person said, “has no problem telling him anything he wants to know about.”

Peter Carr, a spokesman for Mr. Mueller, declined to comment on the subpoena of Mr. Bannon or on a potential interview with the former White House adviser.

Mr. Bannon was chief executive of Mr. Trump’s presidential campaign and later joined the White House as a senior adviser to the president for seven months. Mr. Bannon left his government job in August after a turbulent tenure but remained in close contact with the president.

More recently, the two men had a public falling-out after candid comments made by Mr. Bannon appeared in Michael Wolff’s “Fire and Fury,” a new book chronicling the early months of the Trump presidency. Mr. Trump told The Wall Street Journal in a recent interview that he felt betrayed by Mr. Bannon’s comments.

The book recounts that Mr. Bannon described a June 2016 meeting between Mr. Trump’s son Donald Trump Jr., son-in-law Jared Kushner and campaign chairman Paul Manafort and a Russian lawyer as treasonous and unpatriotic. The meeting was organized after the Russians purported to have incriminating information on Mr. Trump’s Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton.

The meeting is of interest to House investigators, as are other interactions on the campaign trail, during the presidential transition and in the Trump administration.

Moscow has denied any meddling in the U.S. election and Mr. Trump has called the long-running investigations a “witch hunt.”

Write to Peter Nicholas at peter.nicholas@wsj.com and Byron Tau at byron.tau@wsj.com
Click to expand...

I am sure the fact that this story is coming out and the fact that Donald Trump has rescheduled the Fake News Awards for today is just a mere and total coincidence.
 
King n Yellow said:
  • BBC-They almost went full CNN. They'd rather cover Trump than their own country's messes.
Click to expand...
maybe i'm just a stupid american, but that sounds like the norm for salty european
REEE AMERICA REEE IGNORE MY PROBLEMS REEE AMERICA

King n Yellow said:
CNN-because they have the largest hateboner for Trump and tossed any credibility they had out the window due to their incessant Trump sperging and ridiculous stories and coverage. What a hill to die on.
Click to expand...
CNN was literally willing to dox someone over a gif
imagine if someone running for president REEEE'ed over a meme...

oh wait

Adolf Von Merkel said:
Where is Fox news ?
Click to expand...
it's my side so it's okay
 
Since the GOP website keeps crashing I'll post the entirety here.


2017 was a year of unrelenting bias, unfair news coverage, and even downright fake news. Studies have shown that over 90% of the media’s coverage of President Trump is negative.

Below are the winners of the 2017 Fake News Awards.

1. The New York Times’ Paul Krugman claimed on the day of President Trump’s historic, landslide victory that the economy would never recover.

2. ABC News' Brian Ross CHOKES and sends markets in a downward spiral with false report.

3. CNN FALSELY reported that candidate Donald Trump and his son Donald J. Trump, Jr. had access to hacked documents from WikiLeaks.


4. TIME FALSELY reported that President Trump removed a bust of Martin Luther King, Jr. from the Oval Office.


5. Washington Post FALSELY reported the President’s massive sold-out rally in Pensacola, Florida was empty. Dishonest reporter showed picture of empty arena HOURS before crowd started pouring in.



6. CNN FALSELY edited a video to make it appear President Trump defiantly overfed fish during a visit with the Japanese prime minister. Japanese prime minister actually led the way with the feeding.


7. CNN FALSELY reported about Anthony Scaramucci’s meeting with a Russian, but retracted it due to a “significant breakdown in process.”


8. Newsweek FALSELY reported that Polish First Lady Agata Kornhauser-Duda did not shake President Trump’s hand.


9. CNN FALSELY reported that former FBI Director James Comey would dispute President Trump’s claim that he was told he is not under investigation.


10. The New York Times FALSELY claimed on the front page that the Trump administration had hidden a climate report.


11. And last, but not least: "RUSSIA COLLUSION!" Russian collusion is perhaps the greatest hoax perpetrated on the American people. THERE IS NO COLLUSION!





While the media spent 90% of the time focused on negative coverage or fake news, the President has been getting results:

1. The economy has created nearly 2 million jobs and gained over $8 trillion in wealth since the President’s inauguration.

2. African Americans and Hispanics are enjoying the lowest unemployment rate in recorded history.

3. The President signed historic tax cuts and relief for hardworking Americans not seen since President Reagan.

4. President Trump’s plan to cut regulations has exceeded “2 out for every 1 in” mandate, issuing 22 deregulatory actions for every one new regulatory action.

5. The President has unleashed an American energy boom by ending Obama-era regulations, approving the Keystone pipeline, auctioning off millions of new acres for energy exploration, and opening up ANWR.

6. ISIS is in retreat, having been crushed in Iraq and Syria.

7. President Trump followed through on his promise to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of the State of Israel and instructed the State Department to begin to relocate the Embassy.

8. With President Trump’s encouragement, more member nations are paying their fair share for the common defense in the NATO alliance.

9. Signed the Veterans Accountability and Whistleblower Protection Act to allow senior officials in the VA to fire failing employees and establishes safeguards to protect whistleblowers.

10. President Trump kept his promise and appointed Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch to the U.S. Supreme Court
 
The president is putting on a show to take a public, star-spangled dump on the media outlets that piss him off. He's making a fucking pretend award show.

I love this goddamn timeline. :story:
 
Praise the god emperor, he is making all the blue checkmarks have a heart attack right now in pure rage, so much salt and bitching

i was expecting a actually tv show with him announcing the winners, oh well he must be busy preparing his new shitpost
 
MrLobe said:
The president is putting on a show to take a public, star-spangled dump on the media outlets that piss him off. He's making a fucking pretend award show.

I love this goddamn timeline. :story:
Click to expand...
Best part is we get to watch all the wonderful mental gymnastics, or even better, blind rage and hate over it all where even self-justification is thrown out the window for anti-cheeto hitler rage.

Fuck, maybe I'm being too optimistic but maybe if he shits on the media enough they'll figure out what they're doing isn't working.
 
The Washington Post has already fact checked his Awards. You know, because why not?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...t-checking-president-trumps-fake-news-awards/

Fact Checker | Analysis
Fact-checking President Trump’s ‘Fake News Awards’
By Glenn Kessler January 17 at 10:31 PM 2:13

President Trump on Jan. 17 announced the “2017 Fake News Awards” but the link that he tweeted led to a Web page that was “temporarily offline.”(Patrick Martin/The Washington Post)

The “Fake News Awards” announced on the Republican National Committee website and touted by President Trump pose a conundrum: Does it really count if the news organization admits error?

Regular readers of The Fact Checker know that we do not award Pinocchios if a politician admits error. Everyone makes mistakes — and the point is not to play gotcha. News organizations operate in a competitive arena and mistakes are bound to be made. The key test is whether an error is acknowledged and corrected.

President Trump almost never admits error, even as he has made more than 2,000 false or misleading statements. So with that context, here’s an assessment of the “awards”:

“1. The New York Times’ Paul Krugman claimed on the day of President Trump’s historic, landslide victory that the economy would never recover.”

Krugman, of course, is a columnist. So it’s a bit odd to feature an opinion as fake news when it’s not really news, just opinion. (We don’t fact-check opinions at The Fact Checker.) Krugman wrote: “We are very probably looking at a global recession, with no end in sight. I suppose we could get lucky somehow. But on economics, as on everything else, a terrible thing has just happened.”

Clearly that prediction has not happened. So Krugman looks like he has egg on his face. But it turns out he retracted the prediction just three days later. “It’s at least possible that bigger budget deficits will, if anything, strengthen the economy briefly,” he wrote.

“2. ABC News’ Brian Ross CHOKES and sends markets in a downward spiral with false report.”

Ross got his timeline wrong, claiming that former national security adviser Michael Flynn, who had just pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI, was expected to testify that Trump was a candidate when he instructed Flynn to contact Russian officials. Big mistake — but ABC News corrected the error, and Ross was suspended for the “serious mistake.”

“3. CNN FALSELY reported that candidate Donald Trump and his son Donald J. Trump, Jr. had access to hacked documents from WikiLeaks.”

Here’s a case where other news organizations — The Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal and NBC News — quickly reported that CNN had gotten it wrong. It turned out that the sender of the email in question was notifying the Trumps of already public documents.

“The new details appear to show that the sender was relying on publicly available information,” CNN admitted. “The new information indicates that the communication is less significant than CNN initially reported.”

“4. TIME FALSELY reported that President Trump removed a bust of Martin Luther King, Jr. from the Oval Office.”

This is is reference to a tweet by a reporter — which was quickly corrected. Do tweets really count as “news”? This did not appear as a news article — and the correction came less than an hour after the original tweet. And the correction was quickly followed by an apology.

“5. Washington Post FALSELY reported the President’s massive sold-out rally in Pensacola, Florida was empty. Dishonest reporter showed picture of empty arena HOURS before crowd started pouring in.”

Again, another tweet. Again, quickly corrected, within minutes. This also did not result in a news article, except to say that the reporter apologized for the mistake.

“6. CNN FALSELY edited a video to make it appear President Trump defiantly overfed fish during a visit with the Japanese prime minister. Japanese prime minister actually led the way with the feeding.”

Again, this started as a tweet — of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Trump tossing spoonfuls of fish food into a koi pond. What went viral was a clip of Trump appearing to quickly pour his entire box of food into the pond. But then it turned out that Abe went first. It could have just been a matter of how the video feeds were released to reporters. The CNN report noted: “The move got Trump some laughs, and a smile from Abe, who actually appeared to dump out his box of food ahead of Trump.”

“7. CNN FALSELY reported about Anthony Scaramucci’s meeting with a Russian, but retracted it due to a ‘significant breakdown in process.’”

Another case when a reporting mistake led to consequences: CNN issued a correction and three employees, including a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, were forced out. (The RNC includes a headline about the reporters resigning.)

“8. Newsweek FALSELY reported that Polish First Lady Agata Kornhauser-Duda did not shake President Trump’s hand.”

Newsweek based its report on a brief clip of the meeting, in which Kornhauser-Duda appear to walk past Trump’s outstretched hand to shake Melania Trump’s hand. When the extended clip was released, showing she then shook Trump’s hand, Newsweek corrected the story. (Vanity Fair, by the way, made the same error.)

“9. CNN FALSELY reported that former FBI Director James Comey would dispute President Trump’s claim that he was told he is not under investigation.”

Yep, CNN got this story wrong. It was also corrected once CNN realized its mistake: “The article and headline have been corrected to reflect that Comey does not directly dispute that Trump was told multiple times he was not under investigation in his prepared testimony released after this story was published.”

“10. The New York Times FALSELY claimed on the front page that the Trump administration had hidden a climate report.”

This was certainly a screw-up, as the report had been publicly available for seven months. The error was only half-heartedly acknowledged by the Times, which added a correction and this line: The report “was uploaded to a nonprofit internet digital library in January but received little attention until it was published by The New York Times.” But that was not entirely correct either, as The Washington Post had written about it months earlier — just not on the front page.

“11. And last, but not least: “RUSSIA COLLUSION!” Russian collusion is perhaps the greatest hoax perpetrated on the American people. THERE IS NO COLLUSION!”

Special counsel Robert S. Mueller III, appointed by the Trump administration, continues his investigation, as do congressional committees led by Republicans.

The Bottom Line
To sum up, at least eight of the “Fake News” winners resulted in corrections, with two reports prompting suspensions or resignations. Two of the winners were simply tweets that were quickly corrected and never resulted in news articles. One was an opinion article in which the author later retracted his prediction.

Let’s it put it this way: If the president admitted error as frequently, he would earn far fewer Pinocchios.

(About our rating scale)
Click to expand...
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom