Rollingstone has a piece about the NBC ‘Meet the Press’ host coming to see that an American President in the name of Donald Trump has been using an old Russian political technique ….
Disinformation….
Todd will do his December 29th show to talk about how Donald Trump AND now increasingly more Republicans have bent the truth to fit Trump’s advantage….
And how the media has advanced Trump’s version of reality vs the actual reality….
Rolling Stone: What made you decide to devote an entire show to the topic of disinformation and fake news?
Chuck Todd: For the last two or three years we’ve been pondering a social media special like this. Last year we focused on climate change. But had we not done climate change, we were in the social media world thinking about what it was doing to our politics. And then you realize it’s the misinformation. This is bigger than social media. The Ukraine story for me really crystallized it. And for good or bad, our show has been at the forefront of this. The first Sunday of the Trump administration is when the phrase, “alternative facts” was debuted. It was on Meet the Press Rudy that Giuliani used the phrase “Truth isn’t truth.” So look, whether we’d liked it or not, our platform has been used, or they’ve attempted to use our platform to essentially disseminate, or to sort of, what I would say, is lay the groundwork for this.
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And it’s clearly an epidemic. And I think that even if a special like this is only seen by people who already believe we have a problem, it is a reminder. I’m a big supporter of something called the News Literacy Project. My fear is the next news consumers: How will they know truth from fiction? How will they have the tools to discern from this?
I think our biggest problem going into 2020 is that we have two sets of standards simply on political advertising. If you choose to advertise on cable or television, on linear television, there’s a certain set of standards on fact that you have to surpass in order to get your ad on television. Not the case on social media. And we have seen the Trump campaign literally use two different ads — one that allows them to say their misinformation about Biden in the areas that they can. So part of this is putting it all in one place as almost as an educational exercise, if you will, to show we have a systemic issue here….
“More” Republicans?
How about Most Republicans?Very few Republicans even bother to challenge their Leader any longer .and even their criticism is muted usually.
It’s all about the “librul” media.Its remarkable how reporting what their Leader actually is shown saying or tweeting has become “fake news.”
The only thing “fake” are the blatant Lies being spread by Republicans.The so called Ukraine interference in the ekections is a good example.Not a scintilla of evidence that anything happened.None, yet Republican politicians like Ted Cruz have been spreading this Lie and wanting an “investigation.”Of what?
It’s still all about,”get them “libruls.”