Who takes advantage of others' mistakes?

THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 2020

Commander-in-chief hammers Yahoo:
On Tuesday, right there in the White House, Yahoo's Hunter Walker made a mistake.

President Trump was taking questions with Governor DeSantis. Dr. Birx was also present. The mistake went down like this:
WALKER (4/28/20): Mr. President, overall, South Korea has done five times more tests than the U.S. per capita. Why is that?

TRUMP: I don’t think that’s true.

WALKER: That is true. You said this morning that—

TRUMP: I don’t—I don’t think it’s true.

WALKER: The White House said the U.S. passes South Korea on virus testing.

TRUMP: I don’t think it’s true. Who are you with?

WALKER: Yahoo News. And it’s not true per capita.

TRUMP (to Dr. Birx): Do you want to respond to that? Do you—if you have the numbers.
With that, Birx launched one of her long, rambling, way-off-the-point recitations. She didn't speak to the factual claim which President Trump had challenged.

Later, though, Birx had somehow acquired the numbers. At that point, the hammer came down:
BIRX: So, to our Yahoo gentleman, I just want to make it clear that South Korea’s testing was 11 per—per 100,000, and we’re at 17 per 100,000. So—

TRUMP: Right! Are you going to apologize, Yahoo? That’s why you’re Yahoo and nobody knows who the hell you are.

WALKER: If that’s correct— Based on the numbers I’ve seen, that’s not—

TRUMP: That’s why nobody knows who you are, including me. [To different journalist] Go ahead.

BIRX: Just check it again.

TRUMP: You ought to get your facts right before you make a statement like that.
"Right," the president said, as if he actually knew. Clearly, though, no one hates a factual error more than Donald J. Trump!

As far as we know, Dr. Birx's numbers were correct. You can see similar numbers reported by Vox just one day before this fiery White House exchange.

The Yahoo gentleman made a mistake. That said, Trump himself made all kinds of wild misstatements about the extent of our testing just one day before. Here's the difference:

The Yahoo gentleman was massacred by Trump in real time for making this mistake. Luckily, this event wasn't being broadcast in prime time by all three cable channels, but that's where teamwork comes in.

Fox News and the Washington Examiner each posted reports about the Yahoo gentleman's subsequent apology for his mistake. (ABC News and The Hill also reported the troubling incident.)

Trump himself retweeted the Fox News report under this headline:
Yahoo reporter apologizes to President Trump after making false coronavirus test claim in Oval Office meeting
People, Fake News had struck again! In this way, Trump supporters are given a certain picture of the world.

Concerning the various wild misstatements Trump had made the day before, people who found their way to PolitiFact found a "Pants on Fire" assessment of Trump's ridiculous claims. But you had to search it out.

Our point is simple:

Trump makes wild misstatements every day in the week. This was an especially egregious state of affairs when CNN and MSNBC were making a point of broadcasting his repeated wild misstatements to the nation in prime time, night after night after night.

Major news orgs took an amazingly permissive approach to the broadcast of these repetitive nightly misstatements. Even as these repetitive misstatements were being broadcast night after night, no major org created a dedicated newspaper page, or a dedicated cable program, dedicated to their collection and correction.

Let's review:

CNN and MSNBC aired hours of wild misstatements, night after night, for weeks. In the last few weeks, CNN began trying a bit harder to fact-check Trump's endless wild claims, but the overall imbalance of misstatement to correction was immense.

Citizens weren't invited to learn about the president's endless misstatements. The New York Times? CNN, MSNBC? Such orgs didn't much seem to care about the clownishness of this seven-nights-per-week propaganda and disinformation storm.

That said:

Let one reporter make a mistake, as the Yahoo gentleman did, and Trump supporters are told about it all up and down and around. The reporter gets yelled at in real time, after which the outraged reporting and the triumphant tweeting start.

Trump makes wild misstatements all the time; Yahoo made just one. But one team took that mistake and ran.

Across the spectrum, the boys and girls of the upper-end press have mainly just sat there and stared. It's just as we have ytold you for years:

Respect for accurate information plays an amazingly minor role in upper-end journalistic culture. What follows is an anthropological point:

Truth to tell, they just don't seem to care.

31 comments:

  1. Here's the difference: The Yahoo gentleman was massacred by Trump in real time for making this mistake.

    Trump isn't criticized for his mistakes?

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  2. "Across the spectrum, the boys and girls of the upper-end press have mainly just sat there and stared."

    Somerby describes the nightmare scenario that keeps reporters from jumping on Trump's errors. What if they are wrong?

    Somerby thinks the reporters should all have the facts (which change hour by hour) at their fingertips so that they can challenge Trump no matter what he chooses to talk about. It would be nice if they could do that, but people are human and our minds are not computers. So we all live with the fact that sometimes we get it wrong. When it is so embarrassing to get something wrong and so likely it can happen even when you feel sure about some fact, who is going to want to stick their neck out? Not someone with a job or a reputation to protect.

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  3. Dear Bob, Our Beloved Commander may have misspoken a couple of times, sure. He's a humyn being, after all.

    But your goebbelsian soros-dembot hack made no mistake, obviously. What he did was a clear provocation. He hoped to confuse Our Beloved Commander and generate another wave of ridicule and hate-mongering.

    Hoisted on his own petard, poor dembot. Serves him right.

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  4. Poor Trumplebum!
    Why everybody always picking on him.

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    1. Such a courteous gentlemanly type. Haters gonna hate. Right David? Right moo moo.

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  5. Responsibility is for chumps.

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  6. “Trump makes wild misstatements all the time; Yahoo made just one. But one team took that mistake and ran.

    Across the spectrum, the boys and girls of the upper-end press have mainly just sat there and stared. It's just as we have ytold you for years:

    Respect for accurate information plays an amazingly minor role in upper-end journalistic culture.”

    That’s a little unfair. There is PolitiFact, there is the Washington Post’s Fact Checker database, updated with the coronavirus lies, among others.

    If you google “Trump Coronavirus lies”, you get article after article in all the major news outlets listing his lies and fact checking them.

    Trump obviously feels under assault from the “Fake News”, and it’s his nature to lash out triumphally when some reporter somewhere makes a mistake.

    He likes to give the impression that a single reporter’s mistake shows how the entire news media is Fake News. And that sounds a bit like Somerby’s complaint.

    One ought to be careful generalizing about something as vast as “the media.” There are still some good reporters out there. Most of the factual information we have comes from some media source or other.

    I think the problem isn’t so much a lack of accuracy in the (mainstream?) media, but rather a question of emphasis, a “bothsiderism” if you will, particularly in the political reporting.

    As an example, there wasn’t much factually wrong with the coverage of Hillary’s emails; it’s just that it was hyped, and, like the Uranium One story, contained more insinuation (“clouds and shadows”) than wrong information. And as far as opinion columns, it isn’t a question of fact if Maureen Dowd thinks Al Gore isn’t manly, for example. That’s her (unhelpful, stupid) opinion.

    There have been plenty of exposés about Trump’s taxes, his frauds, his lies, etc, which seemed to generate little “discussion” (to phrase it like Somerby), including here at TDH. Although, to be fair, the media has been filled with such things.

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    1. "He likes to give the impression that a single reporter’s mistake shows how the entire news media is Fake News."

      Meh. No, not the entire news media; he only talks about the establishment zombie media.

      And they are not "Fake News". The term "Fake News" is reserved in your zombie-speak for the reporting of the Official Enemies of your zombie cult, especially if the reporting is accurate.

      Your lib-zombie establishment media are, plain and simple, goebbelsian propaganda: crude hate- and fear-mongering.

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    2. Hey broken-record bot,

      Time to put your money where your mouth is (that's an American saying) and join your zombie cult in Lansing Michigan.

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    3. The Washington Post fact-checker is a pretty slapdash job. Among media critics it's a bad joke. They've protected the reputations of people lying about Iraq, trying to cut social security, smudged the healthcare discussion several times etc.

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  7. If you want to get the blogger to pay attention to you, perhaps spell his name right?

    Just a suggestion for next time.

    Nah, I'm just funnin' ya. It doesn't matter how you spell his name since TDH doesn't read his commenters. For exactly the reason given in the last line of your comment.

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