RE: Less than a day goes by...
May 17, 2017 at 3:44 pm
(This post was last modified: May 17, 2017 at 3:48 pm by henryp.)
(May 17, 2017 at 1:11 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote:(May 17, 2017 at 10:00 am)wallym Wrote: I don't understand these stories. It could be as simple as Trump saying "Hey Comey, can you hurry up and get this Flynn investigation over with, so I can focus on important shit." Or it could be as nefarious as "End this investigation or you're fired."
Without context, nobody can draw a conclusion.
We have some context. We know Trump met with Comey privately. It's been reported that Comey has notes indicating Trump pressured him to stop the investigation. Comey did not end the investigation. Comey was then fired not long after meeting with Trump.
Only one of those things is not known, and while it cannot be said with certainty that it occurred as reported, it is a wholly plausible explanation given the sequence of events.
What do you suppose they talked about, Trump's golf swing, perhaps?
Plausible explanation. Sure. That's a low bar. It's sort of like the Religious folks. They see a gap in knowledge, and they can't wait to fill it with all sorts of stuff that justifies their beliefs. You have a memo that, if given the benefit of the doubt, says “He is a good guy. I hope you can let this go."
From there to obstruction of justice to the point of impeachment is such a giant leap. I'm not saying anything is one way or another, only that the news takes a tiny amount of knowledge, and builds these giant stories built on guessing. And the guessing always seems to go in a direction that appeals to their subscribers/viewers.
Fox News/Conservatives will do the same thing.
It feels like everybody has gone to the Sean Hannity school of 'journalism?'
(May 17, 2017 at 12:15 pm)Crunchy Wrote:(May 17, 2017 at 10:00 am)wallym Wrote: So the problem is, if this isn't really a big deal, who's going to tell us? We've got people trying to tap into the Anti-Trump momentum. We've got the Trump team, obviously, defending him. And in the corner of objective fact based reporting, we have nobody.
Imagine for one second that what ALL the media is reporting is true. How could they go about reporting this without seeming anti-Trump? In other words, what if the truth is anti-Trump?
You can tell they are guessing rather than reporting the truth, by the question marks they put at the end of their headlines. Did Trump Commit Treason!? If the truth was he committed treason, the headline would read "Trump commits Treason." Instead, major news outlets behave like the Star magazine with headlines like Is Batboy Brad Pitt's Secret Love Child?
It could be the truth, if they are guessing right, but guessing doesn't seem like good journalism to me.
