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  • Alternative facts, fake news and Trump's war on mainstream media

    Ah well...

    From The Sydney Morning Herald...

    Washington: Donald Trump's ego might dwarf Uluru, but he's exceedingly thin-skinned.

    However, it would be a mistake to think that drove his bludgeoning of the news media for their accurate reporting on the puny crowd that turned out for his inauguration - maybe just a third of those who poured into the streets of the capital for Saturday's women's protest against his election.

    Yes, the new President had assured us his crowd would be the biggest since Moses crossed the Red Sea. And we're familiar with his obsession about any numbers that speak to his sense of his own greatness - rally crowds, polling and TV ratings. And his bilious contempt for those that don't.

    Trump does not respond well to the words "smaller than" and "Trump" appearing in the same sentence.

    But there's enough data now to state unambiguously that his inauguration crowd was markedly smaller than either of those for Barack Obama - in 2009 and in 2013.

    Photographs and video analysis by crowd size experts, reported by The New York Times, suggests Trump's inauguration crowd was 160,000 - just a fraction of Trump's estimate of up to 1.5 million.

    The experts estimate the 470,000 participated in the at the women's march in DC. And when attendance at similar marches in other US states are thrown in, the total protest is estimated to have included from one million to 2.6 million people.

    That makes them the biggest protests since the Vietnam War; and in anyone's language, a passionate pushback to a new presidency...
    Full article at the Sydney Herald link above...
    Everything is self-evident.

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    Originally posted by cogito View Post
    Ah well...

    From The Sydney Morning Herald...



    Full article at the Sydney Herald link above...
    In this case the press tell the truth and get barracked for it. The photographic evidence is clear and Trumps trumpeters have made him a laughing stock by their contradiction of the number of people present at the inauguration ceremony.
    I google because I'm not young enough to know everything.
    Nemo Mortalium Omnibus Horis Sapit

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    • #3
      Originally posted by jembo View Post
      In this case the press tell the truth and get barracked for it. The photographic evidence is clear and Trumps trumpeters have made him a laughing stock by their contradiction of the number of people present at the inauguration ceremony.
      I won't matter. The knuckle dragging morons who voted for him won't believe the media. Every time this happens they'll just label it 'Fake News'.
      Such is life - Ned Kelly

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      • #4
        Originally posted by boxman View Post
        I won't matter. The knuckle dragging morons who voted for him won't believe the media. Every time this happens they'll just label it 'Fake News'.
        Erdogan used the same tactic in Turkey so when the stories and tapes came out about his son having his fingers in so many pies it was fake news and the media was working for the opposition. Spicer rant was groundwork for when Trump Inc starts pulling the strings and gets its 10% of every deal.

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