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How to tell the difference between real news and fake
news? One example is Fox. If you watch carefully, you'll see that Fox
has respected real news broadcasts (for example Fox News Sunday with Chris
Wallace) with separate "entertainment" programs called "opinion news" (for
example Sean Hannity). This mixture gives the impression that "opinion news" is
actual news. It's not. "Opinion news" is information based partly on real news
and partly on what the host and others in that particular broadcast believe --
which may or may not be factual information. It's up to the opinions viewer to
carefully discern which is which, appreciating real news for its accuracy and
perhaps enjoying opinion news for its personal opinions which you may or may not
share. Most standard news broadcasters (for example
nytimes,
NBC, Fox
News,
ABC,
CBS,
CNN,
PBS) specialize in real news. Real news sometimes has mistakes and may include
opinions, yes, but since real news is carefully vetted, real news is something
you can generally trust. Opinions (yours, mine, TV or internet opinions) are
always suspect, even when they might be noted within a standard news broadcast.
Therefore, watch your step and resist getting caught up in unvetted opinions;
instead, look for the facts of any story and elminate the "garbage". For a good
overview of the difference, See 2017 October 20
link below to article by Fox's well-respected Chris Wallace commenting on the
"news side" vs the "opinion side" of Fox (simply using Fox Opinions as an
example, although there are many other news media presenting "Opinion News").
Do "real news" reporters also inject opinion? Of course. But the basics of their
reporting must be carefully vetted for accuracy to prevent the report from
straying into the arena of "pure opinion". It can be tough to distinguish, but
careful study makes it absolutely possible.
February 20: Zakaria:
'Circus' Trump Admin Has Hardly Done Anything Since Inauguration
CNN's Fareed Zakaria went after President Donald Trump over the weekend, calling
his administration a "rocking horse presidency" that has accomplished little in
its first month.
Explaining the "rocking horse" comparison, Zakaria said the White House has been
moving but not making any progress.
"What has he actually done? Hardly anything," said Zakaria, taking issue with
Trump's contention last week that he has accomplished an unprecedented amount in
his first weeks.
April 28: President Donald Trump, reflecting on a first
100 days in office that has featured
no major legislative wins and
low approval ratings, said Thursday he thought the job would be easier.
"I loved my previous life, I loved my previous life. I had so many things
going," Trump said in an
interview with Reuters. "I actually, this is more work than my previous
life. I thought it would be easier."
May 12:
President Trump says if election were held now 'I would win by a lot more than I
did on November 8' [Trump lost the popular vote by 2.8 million ...
That deficit is more than five times bigger than the 544,000 by which George W.
Bush lost to Al Gore in 2000 - the second biggest popular vote deficit in
history for a candidate who has still gone on to become President. ]
"I think we're doing a great job," Trump said.
Just 36 percent of Americans approve of Trump's
performance in a new poll
May 24: Few
of the jobs companies are promising to create in the U.S. can be attributed to a
sudden renewed commitment to USA Inc. inspired by Trump’s “America First”
policies ... with corporate investments of this scale, such plans are typically
months — or even years — in the making, suggesting they long predate the
presidential election.
https://www.snopes.com/everything-donald-trump-accomplished/
June 1: [Trump withdrawing from the Paris
Climate Accord is] a major step that fulfills his campaign promises while seriously
dampening global efforts to curb global warming. The decision amounts to a
rebuttal of the worldwide effort to pressure Trump to remain a part of the
agreement, which 195 nations signed onto. Foreign leaders, business executives
and Trump's own daughter lobbied heavily for him to remain a part of the deal,
but ultimately lost out to conservatives who claim the plan is bad for the
United States.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/01/politics/trump-paris-climate-decision/index.html
August 7: Here's how investors and
workers are doing after 200 days of President Donald Trump ... In his first six
and a half months in office, the President has promised economic prosperity and
a revitalization of American industry.
Trump is right that stocks are at a record, and job creation continues. What's
wrong is the suggestion that this is reversing a decline that was in place
before the new administration took office. ...
September 22: Trump spent much of his speech
(in Alabama) applauding his administration's work -- including its strong
support of the Second Amendment.
With the Trump administration’s
chaos sucking up all the attention, it’s been able to move forward on a range of
its priorities, which tend to be more focused on regulatory matters anyway. It
is remaking the justice system, rewriting environmental rules, overhauling
public-lands administration, and greenlighting major infrastructure projects. It
is appointing figures who will guarantee the triumph of its ideological vision
for decades to come.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/08/what-trump-is-actually-accomplishing/535458/
August 2: The National Foundation for
American Policy in a report out this week notes that “more than 7,000 men, women
and children have died along the Southwest border” over the past two decades.
More than 200 people have died so far this year, and last year the count topped
300. This year there have been 7.8 deaths for every 10,000 apprehensions of
illegal border crossers.
The number of deaths increased by about 80% between 1999 and 2012, even as
apprehensions—a reliable proxy for illegal immigration—plummeted by more than
75%. As a result, a person picking their way across the border is now “5 times
more likely to die in the attempt than 18 years ago,” the report notes. One
reason is that an enforcement crackdown has encouraged people to slip across
more treacherous or remote areas of the southwest.
http://www.ruthfullyyours.com/2017/08/02/
August 2: [Trump's] large-scale disasters do
keep attention focused away from what smaller agencies are doing,
as Ben Carson acknowledged recently.
October 16: ... the President has begun
making as many changes as he can unilaterally. He announced he was ending the
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which protected young immigrants
brought to the US illegally as children.
Last week, he began to chip away at Obamacare with an executive order that
overhauls the insurance system. He chased it with an announcement that the
administration plans to end subsidies to insurance companies that help
low-income Americans pay for health care.
May 24:
Fact-checking Trump, Sanders' claims that House Dems getting nothing done
While defending President Donald Trump's decision to stop work on infrastructure
legislation until House investigations into his administration stop, White House
press secretary Sarah Sanders on Thursday morning
argued on CNN that House Democrats have not accomplished anything
legislatively.
Both Sanders' claim and Trump's are misleading. While the
Democratic-controlled House is pursuing 11 investigations relating to the President, House Democrats
have also passed 235 pieces of legislation since January, including several
major bills. Of those, only a handful have been taken up by the Republican-held
Senate.
