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Originally Posted by edslunch
I kind of see what he's saying though. Different news outlet choose to put more or less (or even no) emphasis on different news stories. Golfing and security expenses are stories on CNN but not Fox. Fox covers the cheering crowd in Florida, others focus on the size of the crowd. Is one over-reporting or one under-reporting?
Leaving aside incorrect or misleading information, which I do think comes more often from the right, the choice of which facts to present and emphasize does follow a left right split. Facts are not left or right but can be used to support either viewpoint.
Having said that Trump is a very easy target for anyone not on the right, the news writes itself.
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I see what your getting at and would agree with you in the bush/Obama days. Fox presented a skewed but sort of credible criticism of Obama (some commentators were trash but the news coverage was skewed but reasonably true)
Now Trump blatently lies, crowds are back to the fence, and they aren't back to the fence. So covering how big his crowds are is just false. Security expenses shouldn't really be a story but they are for every administration remember Obama going to a baseball game was blown out of proportion.
As for Golf again quit lying, if trump plays a round of golf a week, who cares, the reason it became news was the lie.
So I think if Trumo wouldn't just blatently lie or attack the various pullers of government his coverage would much more resemble Obamas with Foz and MSNBC flipped. And then he would be right to go after non-genuine coverage.
However when day one you send out your press secretary to spout out verifiable lies you have lost all ability to criticize the coverage you receive.