IS IT FAKE NEWS – FAKE OPINIONS OR FAKE HEADLINES
1st Amendment of the U.S. Constitution = Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
I think we can all agree that freedom of speech and the press is critical to maintaining a free and strong democracy. President Trump labels different News agencies fake news. My question; is it fake news, fake opinions or fake leading headlines.
Q: Why do so many media outlets in America have different headlines then those of other countries? Our news media claims it is under attack. Do the Main Stream Media really report, or do they treat us like ignorant children and just tell us what to think?
Let’s check a few negative headlines –
NEGATIVE HEADLINE: AMERICAN PRESS = In G20 photo, Trump couldn’t shove his way to the front and center of world leaders.
THE BACK STORY = they fail to say even in the remainder of the article that your position in the photo is predetermined based on your length in office which is why French President Emmanuel Macron was positioned to the far right of all others.
NEGATIVE HEADLINES: AMERICAN PRESS = Once Dominant, the United States Finds Itself Isolated at G-20 =&= World Leaders Move Forward on Climate Change, Without U.S. =&= G-20 shut Trump out on climate, strike deal on trade =&= G20 closes with rebuke to Trump’s climate change stance =&= The G20 proves it. Because of Donald Trump, the world no longer looks to America for leadership
The articles go on to say how Trump was left isolated as others discussed trade and prepared a statement on global warming.
THE BACK STORY = In a gallop survey of Americans in 2016 – 31% felt the economy was number one – and 3% felt that climate change was the big issue. As Trump said he is President of the U.S. and not of the world. The Paris Climate Accord was non-binding anyway so Trump refused to speak in favor of it. Regarding trade, Trump negotiated separate deals. Trump signed a Natural Gas deal with Poland and made Europe aware that U.S. NG is available to replace Russian NG. Trump also negotiated an aggressive trade with Great Britain because of Brexit.
You get the picture of the NEGATIVE headlines so now let’s check some others.
POSITIVE HEADLINES: FOREIGN PRESS = New boy Trump is sidelined in G20 family photo – because protocol puts the longest serving leaders in the middle (but he gets to bond with France’s Macron) =&= Trump wins key climate, trade concessions at stormy G20 =&= Trump defines soaring vision =&= Ignore the Trump haters. His defense of Western civilization is right =&= Donald Trump predicts ‘very powerful’ trade deal with UK.
THE BACK STORY = The EU accommodated Washington’s wish to “work closely with other countries to help them access and use fossil fuels more cleanly and efficiently.” =&= Trumps speech in Warsaw on the eve of the G20 summit was one of the finest and most consequential by a Western leader since Ronald Reagan’s “tear down this wall” etc. =&= If you doubted Trump has what it takes to make America great again listen to his brilliant Warsaw speech …. Most remarkably, he singled out for praise the unique moral virtues of Western civilization and referenced God ten times etc.
AMERICAN PRESS = what is their deal? Do you ever wonder why they no longer just report the information? In Iraq the village Elders would collect several different papers each and compare what each said about a story to determine the truth. Americans would never put that much effort into getting the truth. Americans read headlines and assume that to be the story so headlines do matter. Will Americans ever be able to trust a single source for information?
HISTORY: Remember the November 9, 2009 Ft. Hood shooting by MAJ. Nidal Milik Hassan? (NOTE: Hassan had numerous e-mails with American-born jihadist cleric Anwar al-Awlaki) As soon as I heard of the Ft. Hood attack and who the shooter was I assumed it was an Islamic Terrorist attack, not the Pentagon and the Obama administration, they labeled it (WORKPLACE VIOLENCE). Remember when the Obama administration coined the phrase (MAN CAUSED DISASTER) to replace the term for terrorism. According to our enlightened leaders the term “terrorism” was simply promoting a “politics of fear”, so we were told not to use that term any longer.
CONTROLLED FUTURE = TODAY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS STYLE BOOK WAS RELEASED: The style of the Associated Press is the gold standard for news writing. The 2017 version states not to use terms like “PRO-LIFE” instead use anti-abortion. Do not use “MIGRANT or REFUGEE” instead use people struggling to get to (name the location). Do not use “TERRORISTS or ISLAMIST” instead use the term militant.
WE NEED TO BE CAREFUL: In the beginning pollution was going to cause another “ICE AGE”. Then it changed to “GLOBAL WARMING” and Al Gore made 100’s of millions of dollars with his movie; An Inconvenient Truth. When those predictions failed the term was changed to “CLIMATE CHANGE”. In fly over country we refer to climate change as the weather. So America, be careful of the elitist and their PC correctness.
Remain true to yourself and call it what it is, whatever that is.