Cenk Uygur
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How The Media Spreads Trump's Lies
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May 4, 2019
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6:38Now PlayingIt looks like mainstream media is helping Trump spread his misinformation. John Iadarola, Jayar Jackson, and Francis Maxwell, hosts of The Young Turks, break it down. MORE TYT
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"Major media outlets failed to rebut President Donald Trump's misinformation 65% of the time in their tweets about his false or misleading comments, according to a Media Matters review. That means the outlets amplified Trump's misinformation more than 400 times over the three-week period of the study -- a rate of 19 per day.
The data shows that news outlets are still failing to grapple with a major problem that media critics highlighted during the Trump transition: When journalists apply their traditional method of crafting headlines, tweets, and other social media posts to Trump, they end up passively spreading misinformation by uncritically repeating his falsehoods.
The way people consume information in the digital age makes the accuracy of a news outlet’s headlines and social media posts more important than ever, because research shows they are the only thing a majority of people actually read. But journalists are trained to treat a politician’s statements as intrinsically newsworthy, often quoting them without context in tweets and headlines and addressing whether the statement was accurate only in the body of the piece, if at all. When the politician’s statements are false, journalists who quote them in headlines and on social media without context end up amplifying the falsehoods."
Hosts: John Iadarola, Jayar Jackson, Francis Maxwell
Cast: John Iadarola, Jayar Jackson, Francis Maxwell
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