Tuesday, November 15, 2016

Slanting the "news"

I plan to cancel my subscription to the New York Times this month. I can rely on Ann Althouse to tell me how they are slanting the news.


The news is is that Trump is criticized? There's a core of news: Trump hired somebody. But the headline isn't what Trump did. It's that people are criticizing him, that he is "denounced." And the person he hired is a "hard-right nationalist." That's at the top of the NYT mobile edition. Here's what should be the most respected news site, and it's reframing what Trump does into anti-Trump propaganda by pretending that the real news is what various Trump antagonists think of the news.
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