Editor: Philip Ragner | Tactical Investor
Seven Most Discrediting Media Screw-Ups of 2016
The mainstream media was arguably the biggest loser of the 2016 presidential election. Time and again, the press engaged in unprecedented hackery in order to advance an agenda, and time and again they screwed up — big league.
The man responsible for causing most of the myriad unforced errors from the press corps was Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, now the president-elect. Trump drove the media crazy — crazy enough to make mistakes. They took their eye off the ball so much, they forgot what game they were playing.
The mainstream media was arguably the biggest loser of the 2016 presidential election. Time and again, the press engaged in unprecedented hackery in order to advance an agenda, and time and again they screwed up — big league.
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The man responsible for causing most of the myriad unforced errors from the press corps was Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, now the president-elect. Trump drove the media crazy — crazy enough to make mistakes. They took their eye off the ball so much, they forgot what game they were playing.
“Outside of the Civil War and World War II, and including 9/11, this may be the most cataclysmic event the country has ever seen.” Full Story
The press’ credibility problem took a turn for the worse this year.
Instead of adjusting adeptly to Trump’s easy relationship with the truth and his tendency to abuse members of the news media, a significant number of political journalists and commentators tripped over themselves to repeat every bit of gossip, thinly sourced claim and half-cocked rumour.
These stories fell short of the most basic function of political journalism in that they failed to provide readers with a clear and indisputably accurate picture of what is really going on at the White House and Congress. These botched reports also further diminished the public’s already dwindling trust in the press.
This isn’t to say all coverage of the Trump administration was trash. Rather, it’s to say an unusually large number of 2017 stories, tweets and headlines turned out either to be overhyped, inconclusive, misleading, half-true or flat-out false.
Starting in order of most recent, here is our catalogue of this year’s shoddiest political reporting beginning Jan. 20, 2017: Full Story
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