[continued from previous message]

130. April 28, 2020
Yahoo reporter Hunter Walker asks Trump a question with false
information in it:

“Overall, South Korea has done five times more tests than the U.S. per capita,” Walker asked Trump during an Oval Office meeting that included
Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.) “Why is that?” “I don’t think that’s true,”
Trump replied.

“That is true,” Walker insisted.

In fact, South Korea’s testing was 11 per 100,000 people and the U.S. is
at 17 per 100,000.

Walker later apologizes in a Tweet: “We have passed South Korea in the
number of tests conducted per capita. I misread the mobile version of
this chart and am sorry about that, @realDonaldTrump.”

131. April 6, 2020
Maggie Haberman, Peter Baker, Katie Rogers and David Enrich at The New
York Times report that “Trump has seized on [hydroxychloroquine] as a
miracle cure.”

In fact, the day before the article was published, the president
repeatedly qualified his support for hydroxychloroquine– as he usually does– and did not call it a miracle cure.


“It may work, and it may not work. But if it doesn’t work, it’s nothing lost by doing it,” said Trump at an April 5 media availability. He also stated, “in case it does work, we want to have it,” and “Now, it may not work, in which case, Hey, it didn’t work. It may work, in which case
it’s going to save a lot of lives. Now, a lot of people say…it has a profound effect. Well, maybe it does and maybe it doesn’t.”

132. May 10, 2020
NBC’s Chuck Todd on Meet the Press used a deceptively edited comment
made by Attorney General William Barr about the case of Lt. Gen. Michael
Flynn. The network later apologized for the error.


133. May 10, 2020
CBS 60 Minutes falsely tweets that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo
“attempted to resurrect a debunked theory that the virus was man-made in China.” Pompeo had said the opposite.

“Look, the best experts so far seem to think it was man-made. I have no reason to disbelieve that at this point,” said Pompeo.

When asked, “Your Office of the DNI says the consensus, the scientific consensus, was not man-made or genetically modified,” Pompeo then
replied, “That’s right. I agree with that. I’ve seen the summary that
you saw that was released publicly. I have no reason to doubt that that
is accurate at this point.”

When asked further, “So just to be clear, you do not think it was
man-made or genetically modified?” Pompeo replied, “I’ve seen what the Intelligence Community has said. I have no reason to believe that
they’ve got it wrong.”

One other flaw with the 60 Minutes tweet is that the news organization
cannot claim to know, first hand, the origin of coronavirus since nobody
from the news agency was present for its birth.


134. June 2, 2020
Mediaite writes an account of demonstrations outside the White House,
quoting numerous reporters as saying tear gas was unjustifiably used.
Fox News host Laura Ingraham said no tear gas was used. Mediaite quotes numerous reporters as “fact checking” Ingraham and concluding she is wrong.

However, the U.S. Park Police releases a report that recounts a litany
of violent acts the protesters had allegedly been committing, including
pelting officers with objects and trying to grab their weapons. The
police confirmed that during the efforts to control the crowd, no tear
gas was used.

“Correct your article, please,” tweeted Ingraham.

As of this posting, Mediate had not corrected its article or reverse fact-checked the apparently false claims about Ingraham and tear gas.

135. June 22, 2020
The New York Times, NPR and others unquestioningly link, as if a fact,
the discovery of a “noose” in a black NASCAR driver’s stall to racism.

An investigation quickly concluded it was a garage door pull rope, and
had been there for months, long before the driver had been assigned the
stall.

136. July 12, 2020
USA Today used a “Fact check” to connect a Trump campaign T-shirt design using an eagle– to a Nazi eagle.

The newspaper later “clarifies” its article to note that “the eagle is a longtime US symbol, too.”


137. Fri. July 17, 2020
On this date, newly-released documents reveal at least nine factual
errors or misrepresentations in a New York Times article by Michael
Schmidt, Mark Mazzetti, and Matt Apuzzo about alleged Trump-Russia
collusion in 2017.

Among other issues, internal notes made by then FBI official Peter
Strzok– but kept secret until this date– contradicted claims in the
Times article including: that Paul Manafort had been picked up
communicating with Russians, that Roger Stone had been investigated by
the FBI, and that Trump advisers had gotten caught communicating with
Russians. Details here.

138. Thurs. July 23, 2020
The Atlantic issues a series of corrections to a false story it
published, “How I Became a Police Abolitionist,” written by social justice activist Derek Pernell who claimed she became scarred and
anti-police because, as a child, she witnessed a police officer shooting
her cousin, a “boy” for skipping a basketball sign in sheet, and that
the police officer wasn’t held accountable. It turns out, it wasn’t a police officer, it was a private security guard; the victim, who was
shot in the arm, was an adult, not a child; and the guard did not escape serious consequences, he was charged with assault.


Dereka Pernell
Photo from Twitter
139. Thurs. Aug. 5, 2020
An AP report about groups named in an FBI affidavit regarding an alleged
Ohio corruption scheme false reported that one named figure, D. Eric
Lycan, is the current counsel for the Republican Party of Kentucky. But
Lycan left that position more than a year ago.

140. Sat. Aug. 8, 2020
Multiple analysts, news outlets, politicians, and advocacy groups
falsely report that President Trump has announced plans to eliminate
Social Security and/or Medicare if he’s re-elected. In fact, the
executive order signed by the president clearly shows a temporary cut in payroll taxes (which fund the entitlement programs) applies to those
earning under approximately $105,000 a year. Others continue paying.
Others in the media, such as the LA Times’ liberal and pharmaceutical propaganda columnist Michael Hiltzik, left false implications, though
stopping short of claiming Trump announced a policy to eliminate the entitlements.


Michael Hiltzik
Photo from Twitter

141. Sat. Aug. 8, 2020
The Washington Post publishes the “Mother of all Corrections,” a 579
word correction of a July 23 article written by food writer Korsha
Wilson. The correction consists of 15 bullet points. Post executive
editor Martin Baron said the paper was “embarrassed by the widespread
errors in this freelance article.”

The article was titled “Black families once lived off their southern farmland. Their descendants are struggling to hold onto it.” The Post acknowledged it “contained many errors and omitted context and
allegations important to understanding two families’ stories.”.


Korsha Wilson
Photo by: Celeste Noche Photography
142. Sat. Aug. 22
AP publishes a fact check that concludes President Trump’s true
statement about an event at the Democratic National Convention was
something other than true.

Trump had tweeted: “The Democrats took the word GOD out of the Pledge of Allegiance at the Democrat National Convention.” AP labelled the true
claim to be misleading even as the news agency acknowledged, “the Muslim Delegates and Allies Assembly and the LGBTQ Caucus meeting, both
Tuesday, left out ‘under God,’ from the pledge.” AP argued that because others Democrats had cited the pledge accurately, Trump’s tweet did not qualify as true.

143. Mon. Aug. 31, 2020
The Washington Post’s Yasmeen Abutaleb and Josh Dawsey publish
allegations in an article entitled: “New Trump pandemic adviser pushes controversial ‘herd immunity’ strategy, worrying public health officials.”

The headline contains no attribution and states the allegation as if
it’s an established fact. The article itself relies on unnamed,
anonymous people.

However, the subject of the allegations, Dr. Scott Atlas, stated in
unequivocal terms that he has never pushed nor spoken to President Trump
about the described strategy, nor has anybody that he knows of.

(If evidence arises showing The Post was correct, after all, this item
will be updated.)

144. Tues. Sept. 8, 2020
Trump critic John Bolton becomes the latest in a series of
on-the-record, firsthand sources to debunk The Atlantic report by
Jeffrey Goldberg that relied upon anonymous sources to claim that Trump
faked the cancellation of a helicopter trip to a French cemetery in 2018
where fallen US soldiers were buried because he didn’t want his hair
messed up by the weather, and that Trump referred to the dead troops as “losers” and “suckers.”

Multiple news outlets repeated the claims.

“That was simply false. I don’t know who told the author [Jeffrey
Goldberg] that,” said Bolton who was in the room in Paris when the
decision was made. “The president assented to the recommendation that he
not go. It was a very straight weather call.”

Shortly after the initial report, the White House denied the allegations
and released documentation also showing there was, indeed, a weather cancellation, and that the call was made by military officials.

Bolton and others also said Trump did not call fallen soldiers names
during the meeting in question or at any time that they ever heard.

When Fox News’ Jennifer Griffin sought to confirm The Atlantic story,
she came back with what she called “confirmation” of the anonymous
claims, yet reported a different set of details. Griffin said that
according to her anonymous sources, once the weather cancelled Trump’s helicopter trip to the cemetery in France, he declined the option to
drive there by car.

Griffin also said her sources heard Trump call living generals, not
fallen US soldiers, names back in the US at a different time and place.
She said Trump told the generals at the Pentagon that they were “losers” and babies.”

Later in interviews, Goldberg acknowledged a key point of his story may
be wrong, admitting that there could have been a weather cancellation of
the helicopter trip. In all, 21 on the record sources disputed
Goldberg’s original claims. However, The Atlantic has not issued a correction.

https://twitter.com/JonathanTurley/status/1303125135570931717?s=20

(If evidence comes to light showing that The Atlantic was correct after
all, this post will be updated.)

145. Mon. Sept. 21, 2020
Newsweek falsely reports that a particular Catholic group associated
with Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett inspired The Handmaid’s
Tale, “set in the fictional Gilead, where women’s bodies are governed
and treated as the property of the state under a theocratic regime.”

Later, Newsweek corrects its story.


146. Fri. Oct. 9, 2020
Politico’s “Playbook author” Anna Palmer tweets out the “breaking news”
that President Trump lost the Nobel Prize, after apparently (mistakenly) believing his nominations were for this year rather than 2021.

https://twitter.com/apalmerdc/status/1314500362733268992?s=20

147. Sat. Dec. 19, 2020
The New York Times award-winning podcast “Caliphate,” turns out to be centered on a man who told false stories about killing for the Islamic
State. The Times returns the prestigious “Peabody Award” the podcast
series won for the false reporting in 2018.

148. Wed. Dec. 30, 2020
A senior political reporter at The Huffington Post, Jennifer Bendery,
falsely states that Vice President Mike Pence is wrong to claim that “millions” of Americans have been vaccinated for coronavirus… even as Bendery simultaneously acknowledges the number is in the millions.


149. Sun. Jan. 10, 2021
The New York Times misidentifies a shirtless man outside a broken window
at the Capitol as a Trump supporter. In fact, the Times didn’t do a
basic fact check of its assumptions.

The shirtless man was a credentialed journalist for The Daily Caller who
had reportedly removed his shirt after getting maced in the chaos. The
Times issues a correction.

https://twitter.com/elivalley/status/1348481465496035329?s=20

150. Thurs. Jan. 14, 2021
Numerous reporters falsely transcribe or refer to a falsely transcribed interview with a Republican senator, Tommy Tuberville of Alabama, to incorrectly claim he wants to delay Biden inauguration.

The accurate transcript makes clear that Sen. Tuberville was speaking hypothetically while accepting the inauguration date.

https://www.mediaite.com/news/prominent-reporters-spread-out-of-context-quote-claiming-sen-tommy-tuberville-wants-to-delay-biden-administration/

151. Saturday, Jan. 16, 2021
CNN’s Jim Sciutto, Wolf Blitzer, and others report a man had been
arrested at a checkpoint to a locked-down zone of the Capitol prior to Biden’s inauguration carrying fake credentials, an unregistered handgun,
and 500 rounds of ammunition.

However, it turns out the man was not an insurrectionist with fake
credentials and an unregistered handgun; he was a security contractor
with an inaugural credential who was working an armed security job with
Capitol Police and authorized to have a firearm, which was licensed in Virginia.

He was released from custody with officials saying they considered him
no threat to public safety.

152. Monday, March 11, 2021
The Washington Post corrects its false story (an “exclusive”) that
quoted then-President Trump as pressuring a Georgia elections
investigator to “find the fraud,” and that she would be a “national hero” if she did, and alleged it “could amount to obstruction.”

As Breitbart News pointed out, the Post story “relied on information
from a single anonymous source, described as ‘an individual familiar
with the call who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the conversation’.”

More than two months after that report, the facts show Trump did not the
quote, after all.

Although The Washington Post issued a correction, there was no published apology and no information on what action, if any, would be taken
against the reporter who published the false material.

The correction reads:

Correction: Two months after publication of this story, the Georgia
secretary of state released an audio recording of President Donald
Trump’s December phone call with the state’s top elections investigator. The recording revealed that The Post misquoted Trump’s comments on the
call, based on information provided by a source. Trump did not tell the investigator to “find the fraud” or say she would be “a national hero” if she did so. Instead, Trump urged the investigator to scrutinize
ballots in Fulton County, Ga., asserting she would find “dishonesty”
there. He also told her that she had “the most important job in the
country right now.” A story about the recording can be found here. The headline and text of this story have been corrected to remove quotes misattributed to Trump.

153. April 15, 2021
U.S. intelligence dials back a New York Times bombshell. According to
Daily Beast:

It was a huge election-time story that prompted cries of treason. But
according to a newly disclosed assessment, Donald Trump might have been
right to call it a “hoax.”


The story by Charlie Savage, Eric Schmitt and Michael Schwartz claimed
Russians put bounties on US troops in Afghanistan under President Trump.

Newly-released information, according to Daily Beast shows: “U.S. intelligence only had ‘low to moderate’ confidence in the story.
Translated from the jargon of spyworld, that means the intelligence
agencies have found the story is, at best, unproven—and possibly untrue.”


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327 thoughts on “Media Mistakes in the Trump Era: The Definitive List”

GREG GOATLEY
JUNE 10, 2018 AT 2:55 PM
It seems obvious that there is a well coordinated resistance effort to
feed “news’ tips and lies to the national media. It’s likely a continuation of the Clinton campaign which started pushing the Russian narrative the day after the election. ( See Shattered”.) Today’s journalists are lazy. They wait for something to come in over the
transom and just go with it. A good news organization would find the
source of this coordinated effort and those holdovers in the
administration who are leaking.

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ALAN
JUNE 18, 2018 AT 2:06 PM
I do not think it has anything to do with being lazy. These commies are
not playing “fast and loose” with the facts either. Both of these accusations would indicate that these coordinated attacks were
incidental. THEY WERE NOT! You CANNOT have this kind of tsunami of lies
and deception by accident. These worms know that the corrections they
make, if any, get no where near the viral traction of the original smear
piece. This is EXACTLY why Rush calls them the “Drive By” media. This
has been going on at a feverish pitch since the end of the Clinton era.
Now, it has been taken to an unbelievably whole new level.

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KEVIN C HASTINGS
JUNE 23, 2018 AT 9:23 AM
you are very correct. The media today is dominated by communist
ideolgues and has been since the end of WW2. Even the sainted Edward R
Murrows best friend committed suicide when he found out that Hoover
himself was coming to arrest him for consopiring with the Rosenburgs to
sell the Hbomb info to the Russians. Any guesses who told him the FBI
was coming for him? Most of us in our 60s remember what Cronkite,
Blather and Huntley did to undermine our soldiers in Nam, how in 2004
the “media” (Blather, Mary Mapes and the 60 minutes 2 show) tried to use blatant, obvious forgeries in an attempt to undermine Ws re-election,
The “media” is the biggest of all the enemy within, which also includes many “lawyers”(hence judges) and many in academia.

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ROBERT
FEBRUARY 24, 2020 AT 2:06 AM
That’s great info that I’ve never heard before.

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GLENN WEYANT
MAY 15, 2020 AT 3:55 AM
The lying Main Stream Media is the scourge of the earth.

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R S
AUGUST 22, 2020 AT 2:50 PM
The msm is the reason 0bama got elected and still roams free. Hide the
truth, and spin the lies.


MARK EHORAN
MARCH 17, 2021 AT 10:20 AM
Your comment is 100 percent spot on … especially referring to Cronkite
as a traitor …. although you have only touched the surface … Find a copy
of General Giap’s (NVA Commander) book of the war (in English) where in
he describes in detail how Cronkite made him realize he did not have to
win … he just had to kill enough Americans and THE PRESS would get us to quit!

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G. ALISTAR
JANUARY 23, 2019 AT 3:01 PM
Hmm, I think the d moderate media w not into hiding for eight years
during Obama’s presidency. All that rest and they woke up ready to go
with their fake news in Nov 2016

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D SIMPSON
FEBRUARY 25, 2020 AT 12:28 AM
“Lazy” must be an euphemism, or that is what I want to believe. Because:

The lady wrote this, and it is a brilliant point in her list of
intelligent observations.

(JOURNALISTS) “.wrote news articles in the style of opinion pieces and
from an omniscient viewpoint as if they were somehow in the mind of
Trump. For example, they reported, “Every time FBI Director James B.
Comey appeared in public, an ever-watchful President Trump grew
increasingly agitated that the topic was the one that he was most
desperate to avoid: Russia.”

I have seen far too much of this sort of fantasy with talking heads
across the spectrum of media. My own philosophy calls the source a
‘negative motivation generator.’ It’s the part of your brain that talks loudest when you hate someone or what they seem to be, to you. You can’t think of a positive motivation for what that someone does, you can only
give credence to that which casts a negative light.

This woman is not just smart, she’s brilliant. And lucky for us, determined.

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GLENN WEYANT
MAY 15, 2020 AT 3:49 AM
Your fourth paragraph goes right to the heart of the matter. That
negativity will be more pronounced in a spoiled or abused individual.
Thank you.

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L. TRIESCH
MAY 27, 2020 AT 11:02 AM
Very well stated. Agree!

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CAMERON B. FORD
FEBRUARY 27, 2021 AT 8:29 PM
Well said. I, too, noticed.

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DIANA K ALMY
JUNE 11, 2023 AT 12:46 PM
Totally agree; she is smart, brilliant and determined!

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ANTSEY
MAY 12, 2020 AT 10:19 AM
BINGO !!!! TRUMP 2020 and beyond.. MAGA. Mt. Rushmore awaits.

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RACHEL MARTIN
MAY 13, 2020 AT 12:44 PM
?

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KAYE BAIRD
MAY 21, 2020 AT 8:54 PM
The Parr that sickens me the most is that people on social media still
tout, especially, the Russia collusion lies as fact. MSM in this country
should be outlawed. Wht they have done to President Trump is criminal.


LEFT8NTRIGHT
JULY 18, 2020 AT 3:43 AM
Absolutely! Well stated! What are the chances of every “mistake” not one
of them was in Trump’s favor. But all of them damaging? I would say I
would have a better shot at winning the lottery with a ticket found on
the side of the road. Or Nancy Pelosi coming across in an interview as
someone who has a grasp on her sanity and a handle on reality.

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CAMERON B. FORD
FEBRUARY 27, 2021 AT 8:30 PM
If you or I made that many “mistakes” at work, we’d be collecting unemployment.

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REGGIEVVDDS
JULY 21, 2020 AT 8:50 AM
Alan is spot-on; however, journalists are also lazy. Twitter is real to
them. They were brought up to believe that myth.

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NAN
AUGUST 20, 2020 AT 6:35 AM
Hey here’s a little light reading for y’all :)

Here’s the Republican lead Senate Select intelligence report on Russian Active Measures and interference into the 2016 election report. It’s
almost 1000 pages, so I have not had time to review the ENTIRE thing but
it’s pretty damning and could make great material for a spy thriller.

I think you’ll find the information quite enlightening!!

https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/documents/report_volume5.pdf

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TOM
JUNE 9, 2021 AT 3:59 PM
ABSOLUTELY Alen.

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TONY VERREOS
JULY 3, 2021 AT 5:27 AM
Exactly!

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DUDLEY C LIGHTSEY
JUNE 18, 2018 AT 6:02 PM
Now that is a reporter

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CHRISTINE SEIDLER
MAY 11, 2020 AT 6:44 PM
This is the most thorough honest reporting I have seen in years. What a
great job !!!

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WAYNE B (RAIN)
JUNE 18, 2018 AT 11:03 PM
The link to the book is still wrong, it is missing a : after https

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MICKEY WALKER
JUNE 19, 2018 AT 2:46 AM
Fully Agree. Trump is making America Great Again and cleaning the Swamp
a little at a time.

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