9/6/2024
The problem is that’s not what Vance said, and the context was ‘ripped from the headline,’ for lack of a better term
It’s the Democrats/Biden/Harris/Pelosi/Schumer/Obama government who have put the new media in this position when they weaponized the whole shebang.
Plain and simple.
They lie and they lie and, therefore, the media being lefties string along to get along since they are paid on the side to work with the Democrat Marxists.
No different with the polls – everything is slanted to the left. So readers just laugh and say to themselves – THEY ARE LYING. It is at the point that anything the media publishes we laugh at because we know it is not true.
That’s is where we are in our public discourse – dismiss everything the media publishes.
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Opinions, like this piece, are important, and civil debate (if that still exists) is required, but we can’t gain the backing of our readers if the ‘trusted’ news people are more concerned with their own political bias and clicks.
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Op-Ed By Brian Burns, Publisher of TFP. Left-Wing Media Continue To Slam Ohio Sen. JD Vance After AP Fixes Flub Over ‘Fact Of Life’© Tampa Free Press
I have worked in this business for many years—too long sometimes, I think. I have been through (and fought) rounds and rounds of layoffs and the dreaded non-paid leaves of absence—or what corporations and holding companies like to call “vacations.”
Growing up on the newspaper side of media and falling in love with the very premise of facts and keeping communities informed. How important is that? Very.
But today, it has changed.
(But the public continues to get the lies by misrepresentations by the left media. You can’t believe what they say. Plain and simple.)
For some, it’s not about facts but bias, clicks, social media posts, and time on site.
“Just get the clicks; we are drowning,” an editor yells across the newsroom as the threat of more cuts looms.
When the mantra was, “Get it first, but first, get it right.” The times were better. But today, it’s get it. While newsrooms worldwide are wondering how to stay staffed, maybe, just maybe, if we went back to facts and not bias, we could help mitigate confusion and inform readers so they can make decisions based on facts. What a concept.
Take a look at a recent article published by the Associated Press titled ” JD Vance says school shootings are a ‘fact of life,’ calls for better security.”
What a statement to say on the heels of the violent massacre at the hands of a 14-year-old boy in Georgia. Right?
(That is what the left media do if you want to make Vance look bad – part of the left’s strategy. Nothing new for the lefties – go for the jugular.)
Related video: Vance, Harris spar on social media as Vance calls school shootings in America ‘a fact of life’ (WLWT Cincinnati)
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Vance, Harris spar on social media as Vance calls school shootings in America ‘a fact of life’,
The problem is that’s not what Vance said, and the context was ‘ripped from the headline,’ for lack of a better term.
Vance did, however, emphasize the need to enhance school security, acknowledging that it is a “fact of life” that shooters often target schools.
“What’s really going to solve this problem—and I don’t like to admit this,” Vance said. “I don’t like that this is a fact of life. But if you are a psycho, and you want to make headlines, you realize that our schools are soft targets. We need to bolster security so that if a psycho wants to walk through the front door and harm children, they can’t do it.”
Axios jumped on board and published a piece highlighting VP Kamla Harris’ criticism of Vance’s remark but later added an editor’s note, stating the article was updated to provide “further context” on Vance’s statement. But the damage is done.
(That is the way they work – do the damage and then go back and apologize.)
Despite Vance’s comments calling for increased school security, the Harris campaign’s official X account, Kamala HQ, falsely accused him of dismissing the tragedy of school shootings and attacking gun safety reforms.
“J.D. Vance responds to the deadly shooting in Georgia by saying school shootings are just ‘a fact of life’ and attacking common sense gun safety reform,” Kamala HQ wrote on X.
Democratic California Governor Gavin Newsom also criticized Vance, accusing him of being indifferent to the deaths of children in schools.“J.D. Vance: School shootings are just ‘a fact of life,’” Newsom remarked. “Kids are being killed, and he’s shrugging his shoulders. Remember that in November.”
Do you see what happened here?
The AP later updated its headline to read, “JD Vance says he laments that school shootings are a ‘fact of life’ and calls for better security,” but did so without including an editor’s note about the change.
The Associated Press also deleted its original tweet about Vance’s remarks approximately 90 minutes after posting it. The revised tweet provided proper context, stating that Vance “laments that school shootings are a ‘fact of life’ and calls for stronger security measures to prevent further violence.”
“This post replaces an earlier post that was deleted to add context to the partial quote from Vance,” the AP clarified in a late Thursday night post on X.
But again, the damage is done, and AP author moves on to the next ‘gotcha’ piece? Is this how this works?
It won’t work for long, as even in the age of X and cable news commentators (often mistaken for news anchors), the nation wants and needs facts, and credibility still goes a long way.
Opinions, like this piece, are important, and civil debate (if that still exists) is required, but we can’t gain the backing of our readers if the ‘trusted’ news people are more concerned with their own political bias and clicks.
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