SpokenTruth said:
He personally tweeted it, not the media organization. And he tweeted it under false data. Once he was informed by another left wing media outlet that the times were different, he deleted the tweet and apologized for not knowing the times were different. What he didn't do is officially run the information in the Washington Post. The difference here is the White House and Fox News have been proven wrong and instead of retracted and apologizing, proclaim their alternative facts s correct. Fake news is intentional. Lying is intentional. Misunderstanding photos (which did not come with time stamps), retracting a tweet about them and apologizing is not an intentional act nor lying. And if you're going to call personal tweets by the media as news, then Fox News is the biggest fake news perpetrator of them all simply because Sean Hannity has to retract something from a tweet every single week. |
Tweeting has become News these days. When you tweet, you represent your company also. Do you not notice how often people get fired or reprimanded for a tweet. That is more important for a reporter/journalist. Whether it's "OFFICIAL" or not, it looks as such when a reporter tweets something out.
Also the media is not stupid. They don't care if the info is unverified or likely untrue. They will post a quick article or tweet it out, which results in everyone hearing this. LATER when they redact it, apologize, say they were wrong ect. NO ONE hears that compared to the original story. The story when first published is on front page, headline, or it gets retweeted 100k times. The correction happens when the story is no longer on the front page and one has to search for it, or gets barely any retweets.
They know this. Thus why you see it a lot with Trump. They publish a story or tweet something out that hurts his image, and even if it ends up being untrue, they don't care. The majority of people will only remember the untrue story and never hear the real one.
Hell look at Tom Brady and the deflategate. Look how many people still believe he cheated. Even though ESPN and all outlets came out months later saying they were wrong. The independent study done that they used showing he deflated his balls showed that the colts balls were also deflated the exact same. Science shows the balls deflated how much they should have. The courts rules that Tom Brady was innocent. Ect.
But probably 90% of people think he is guilty and no amount of future evidence will change their mind. They want him to be guilty and thus will believe the info they like to hear. Same for politics. All the people who hate Trump will believe anything bad about him and even if you find out later it is untrue, that will still subconsciously be stuck in your mind as another +1 bad thing Trump did. So then when another thing happens, you're like OMG Trump sucks. While he may have only done 10 bad things, in your mind it is near 100 because each false bad thing he has done you still slightly believe or believe that even though not true, he would have done something like that.
