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| 2017-01-28 |
| ...Here is an example of journalistic fraud, more egregious than usual, but not by much. The CNN television network juxtaposed two aerial photographs from the same angle, one showing the National Mall full of people, the other showing most of it empty. They explained that Picture A showed the crowd for Obama’s first inauguration, Picture B for Trump’s. They didn’t mention that Picture A was taken while Obama was being sworn in, Picture B three hours before Trump was. It was the "proof" that Obama had outdrawn Trump, picked up and enthusiastically hustled by all other liberal media -- and a knowing misrepresentation. Not one in a hundred who saw it will ever learn that they were had. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #2 Re: #1 That's supposed to be An incredible example of stupidity. Shouldn't comment while drinking wine with dinner. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2017-01-28 19:01 |
| #1 Attributed to Mark (Samuel Clemens) Twain: Figures don't lie, liars figure. This is an incredibly stupid example |
| Posted by: AlanC 2017-01-28 18:57 |