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When Will The Media Start Reporting The News Accurately?
Rep. Meadows Calls Media’s Border Wall Claims a Lie, Posts Pics to Back It Up
If you’re the kind of liberal who enjoys a good chuckle at the expense of President Donald Trump, Wednesday was your lucky day.
According to a Bloomberg report, with the $1.57 billion that Congress gave Trump for the border wall last year, Customs and Border Protection has managed to erect a mere 1.7 miles of new fencing along our border with Mexico.
“The administration recently provided updated information to Congress on the status of its efforts as of April 30, 2019,” Donald Letter, an attorney for the Democratic-run House of Representatives, told a federal judge in a filing, Bloomberg reported.
The information was given to a judge in California hearing a lawsuit by the attorneys general of 20 states, as well as the Sierra Club, to block any wall being constructed with funds not explicitly authorized by Congress.
So, that Bloomberg headline — “U.S. federal wall funding of US $1.57B yields 1.7 miles of fence” — doesn’t look good for the Trump administration.
Beyond the headline, however, the facts are a lot more complex.
Rep. Mark Meadows, the North Carolina Republican who chairs the House Freedom Caucus, noted those facts in a Thursday tweet, complete with pictures.
Just met with @POTUS this afternoon. Reports of only a mile of additional wall being built on the border are misleading and inaccurate. In fact—500 miles of new wall expected to be complete by 2020. Vehicle barriers being upgraded to larger border barrier as well.
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Meadows wrote that “500 miles of new wall expected to be complete by 2020. Vehicle barriers being upgraded to larger border barrier as well.”
That wasn’t the only pushback on how the article characterized the wall construction. The president weighed in, too, as one might expect:
Much of the Wall being built at the Southern Border is a complete demolition and rebuilding of old and worthless barriers with a brand new Wall and footings. Problem is, the Haters say that is not a new Wall, but rather a renovation. Wrong, and we must build where most needed....
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Also, tremendous work is being done on pure renovation - fixing existing Walls that are in bad condition and ineffective, and bringing them to a very high standard!
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“Much of the Wall being built at the Southern Border is a complete demolition and rebuilding of old and worthless barriers with a brand new Wall and footings. Problem is, the Haters say that is not a new Wall, but rather a renovation. Wrong, and we must build where most needed,” he wrote.
“Also, tremendous work is being done on pure renovation – fixing existing Walls that are in bad condition and ineffective, and bringing them to a very high standard!”
According to The Daily Caller, an unnamed senior administration official told the news outlet that Bloomberg didn’t get its facts straight regarding the court filing.
“The Bloomberg article is wrong,” the official said. “The 1.7 miles are part of a 14-mile project specific to the San Diego Sector at a cost of $131 million (FY18 dollars).
“There are currently over 120 miles of new or replacement wall being constructed, and to say only 1.7 miles is completely false and misleading.”
Is President Trump keeping his promise on border wall construction?
Meanwhile, a Thursday report from Customs and Border Protection obtained by the U.K. Daily Mail indicated that 42 miles of wall had been completed with 110 miles being constructed.
“Since January 2017, approximately 205 miles of new and replacement border barriers have been funded through the traditional appropriations process and via Treasury Forfeiture Funding, of which approximately 42 miles have been completed to date,” the report read.
“According to a chart in the report, the sections of wall that are funded and in varying stages of contracting and completion include 86 miles of ‘new primary wall’ and 24 miles of ‘new levee wall.’ Also included are 68 miles of ‘replacement primary wall,’ 144 miles of ‘replacement vehicle wall’ and 14 miles of ‘replacement secondary wall,'” the Mail reported.
The report also suggests that 336 miles of wall are funded in total, both through congressional appropriations and Pentagon funding.
But that doesn’t quite sound as good to liberals as 1.7 miles of new fencing for $1.57 billion, does it?
That’s the problem with the wall: It’s one of the multitude of policies that the media seems to have tacitly taken a position on. All “objective” reporting then originates from that perspective.
That’s why we “know” the wall is ineffective, that it’ll never get funded, that it’s way over budget and that none of it is being constructed. Therefore, the numbers cited in the Bloomberg article will continue to be “known,” no matter how true they may be.
The headline may not have looked good for Trump, but the facts that undergirded it don’t look particularly good for whoever wrote it.
Thursday, March 22, 2018
YouTube Enters The Censorship Era
YouTube Bans All Gun Demonstration Videos
YouTube
YouTube is entering the gun control debate with a new ban on videos which demo firearms or link to websites selling firearms or firearm accessories.
The move to ban firearm demos dovetails with the media platform’s desire to “prohibit videos with instructions on how to assemble firearms.”
Ironically, guns built at home have not been part of the mass public attacks that have drawn national attention over the past months and years, but guns acquired at retail via background checks have been.
Bloomberg reports that YouTube issued a statement in coordination with new prohibitions, saying, “We routinely make updates and adjustments to our enforcement guidelines across all of our policies. While we’ve long prohibited the sale of firearms, we recently notified creators of updates we will be making around content promoting the sale or manufacture of firearms and their accessories.”
The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) said YouTube’s policy shift is “worrisome.” They fear that “educational content” may now be lumped in with prohibited firearm videos and everything lost together.
NSSF observed:
We suspect it will be interpreted to block much more content than the stated goal of firearms and certain accessory sales. We see the real potential for the blocking of educational content that serves instructional, skill-building and even safety purposes. Much like Facebook, YouTube now acts as a virtual public square. The exercise of what amounts to censorship, then, can legitimately be viewed as the stifling of commercial free speech.
YouTube’s new prohibitions come just days before students around the nation convene for the march for gun control.
Thursday, December 7, 2017
Once Again The Media Lies
Huckabee Sanders Vindicated: Bloomberg and WSJ Walk Back Deutsche Bank Subpoena Story
The Associated Press
Several major news organizations were forced to provide corrections or clarifications on stories that initially claimed investigators had subpoenaed Donald Trump’s financial records from a German bank.
After an initial report about a subpoena from the German daily Handlesblatt, Bloomberg, The Wall Street Journal and other news outlets reported that Deutsche Bank had received a subpoena from Special Counsel Robert Mueller targeting Trump and his family’s bank records. Those reports were disputed by White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders and Trump’s personal lawyer.
“We confirmed that the news reports that the special counsel had subpoenaed financial records related to the president are completely false,” Sanders said during the White House’s daily press conference. “No subpoena has been issued or received. We have confirmed this with the bank and other sources. I think this is another example of the media going too far and too fast and we don’t see it going in that direction.”
“We have confirmed that the news reports that the Special Counsel had subpoenaed financial records relating to the president are false. No subpoena has been issued or received. We have confirmed this with the bank and other sources,” Trump lawyer John Dowd wrote in an email.
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Instead of targeting Trump or his family’s records, the subpoenas were aimed at records that pertain to people or organizations affiliated with the president, according to the corrected stories.
Bloomberg and The Wall Street Journal have since issued corrections or clarifications about their stories. “An earlier subheadline said a subpoena from special counsel Robert Mueller’s office requested data and documents about President Trump’s accounts. The subpoena concerns people or entities close to Mr. Trump,” the Wall Street Journal said.
AFP reported late Tuesday that the subpoena sought information about Paul Manafort, the former Trump campaign official who was indicted in October.
The corrections and clarifications come just days after ABC News suspended investigative reporter Brian Ross after he falsely reported that former Trump administration official Michael Flynn had said he was told to make contact with Russian government officials when Trump was still a candidate. Instead, the alleged instructions to contact Russians came after the election, when Trump was president-elect and his team was transitioning into power.
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