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If you think the news industry’s credibility problem is bad now, you haven’t seen anything yet.

It is going to get much, much worse the closer we get to Election Day, if Tuesday’s slipshod news reporting and commentary is any indication.

The New York Times’ Maggie Haberman, for example, tweeted the following falsehood at around 5:30 p.m. Monday evening: “Republican voter registration in NH is down roughly 20k voters from 2016 to now. It’s a reminder that Trump’s increased GOP popularity is in part because in some places, the GOP registration rolls have shrunk.”

This is not only false, but it has been debunked several times. At some point, repeating the lie becomes a choice.

Earlier than that, MSNBC’s Katy Tur, who hosts a politics news show, sought to throw cold water on the strong economic numbers touted by the Trump White House, arguing that the economy is not working for the individual who spends up to 360 months paying off his car loan.

“When I ask people if they’re voting for Donald Trump, I hear about their 401(ks) a lot,” she said during a live broadcast from New Hampshire, “but there are those out that who don't have a 401(k), and there are those out there who this economy is not really working for them.”

Tur added, “They might have a job, but it's not a job that pays their bills. They can get a car but it's a loan that will take 30 years.”

I have no idea what she is talking about. I don’t think even she knows (what else is new?). Car loans can take anywhere between 12 and 84 months to pay off. Who are these people agreeing to 30-year car loans? Follow up question: Are they looking to finance a new car? No reason.

Elsewhere Tuesday morning, CNN’s Cristina Alesci warned viewers to be extremely careful about recently surfaced audio featuring 2020 Democratic candidate Mike Bloomberg proudly promoting the stop-and-frisk policies he championed as mayor of New York City.

After all, the CNN reporter claimed, as we don’t have the full audio of the former mayor’s remarks, we don’t have the full context. This is not true. The full audio of Bloomberg’s comments has been available online since 2015.

“So, here's the thing, important context here," she said, "we don't have the full tape."

Alesci continued, “So, this is obviously snippets that have been released, the podcaster and the writer that released this sound is clearly a Bernie supporter, if you look at his twitter feed, he's very anti-Bloomberg, he's promoting a hashtag ‘#BloombergIsARacist.'"

A simple Google search brings up the full audio, which was posted in 2015 shortly after Bloomberg delivered his address at the Aspen Institute. Also, all that stuff about the alleged political affiliations of the person who posted the audio online Monday evening is irrelevant to the content of the surging 2020 candidate's past remarks.

Lastly, and relatedly, there is NBC News’ Heidi Przybyla, who shared a conspiracy theory at around 7:30 a.m. alleging Moscow is responsible for making the hashtag “#BloombergIsRacist” a top-trending news topic on social media. The hashtag, which is definitely organic, cropped up Tuesday morning following the release of the Bloomberg audio. Przybyla later deleted her tweet promoting the conspiracy theory, which she did not even bother to double-check before sharing with her 145,000 Twitter followers.

For many in this industry, the lesson of the 2016 election does not appear to be, “Do better.” It appears to be, “Resist harder, by any means necessary.”

Buckle up. The 2020 election is going to an absolute mess of disinformation and bogus narratives, and much of it is going to come from the same people who claim to stand against all of that.

Oh, so you mean a normal Tuesday in the news game?

Just because a reporter says it doesn’t make it news. Same is true of scientists.

OP: Those were not "errors"

"If you repeat a lie often enough it becomes accepted as truth." Joseph Goebbels

Only 4 blatant lies in 10 hours? That's probably a pretty accurate day for the lamestream media.

only 4?

wow, they're getting better

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Originally posted by blueye:
"If you repeat a lie often enough it becomes accepted as truth." Joseph Goebbels

"It's not a lie if you believe it" George Costanza

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Originally posted by vandrv:

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Originally posted by blueye:
"If you repeat a lie often enough it becomes accepted as truth." Joseph Goebbels

"It's not a lie if you believe it" George Costanza

It's actually pretty helpful. If you proceed with the premise that every word is a lie from the MSM, you can glean some news by just reversing the context. "Trump is losing" = "Trump is winning." "Bloomberg is a saint" = "Bloomberg is a putz." See how it works?

Big news grabs a lot of it's info from Twatter, and Twatter isn't news, it's social jabber, instead of working the beat and validating sources, it's, print, post, pontificate and apologize....

Most people here have it correct. Our 'media' is broken...it's not getting better. Entities looking to inform you rather than influence you are a quaint relic of our past.