". . . first tell the truth; then you point out what the lie is and how it diverges from the truth. Then you repeat the truth . . ."
See source of this statement below . . . it's how to deal with Trump and his team's lies.
"In 2019, The Media Has to Do Better in Calling Out Trump's Shit"
Being objective doesn't mean letting liars lie.
By Dan Sinker Jan 5, 2019
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a25741262/media-trump-lies-2019/
"Trump’s Lies Are a Virus, and News Organizations Are the Host"
Journalists have become complicit in spreading the president’s falsehoods and conspiracy theories. Here’s how they can do better.
Derek Thompson Staff writer at The Atlantic Nov 19, 2018
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/11/should-media-repeat-trumps-lies/576148/
"The news media today face an epistemic crisis: how to publish the president’s commentary without amplifying his fabrications and conspiracy theories.
One flashpoint came several weeks ago, when President Donald Trump told Axios reporters that he planned to use an executive order to end birthright citizenship because, as he put it, “we’re the only country in the world where a person comes in and has a baby, and the baby is essentially a citizen.”"
Was Trump truthful? Was he lying? No, and yes!
"As many journalists quickly pointed out, this was multilayered malarkey. The president was proposing an unconstitutional means of obliterating the Fourteenth Amendment on the basis of a falsehood; more than two dozen countries in the Western Hemisphere have unrestricted jus soli laws, like the U.S. Axios was treating as fact a haphazard plan, in search of an impossible outcome, justified by a false assertion."
"Joe Scarborough: Media Has Nothing To Apologize For, "Why Would Donald Trump Lie About Russia?""
[IT'S AN OBVIOUS FLAW IN TRUMP'S CELEBRATIN ABOUT MUELLER REPORT - WHY DOES HE LIE SO MMUCH ABOUT RUSSIA?]
Posted By Tim Hains On Date March 26, 2019
"How the media should respond to Trump’s lies: State of the Union edition"
A linguist explains how Trump uses lies to divert attention from the “big truths.”
By Sean Illing@seanilling sean.illing@vox.com Updated Feb 5, 2019, 9:00pm EST
https://www.vox.com/2018/11/15/18047360/trump-state-of-the-union-speech-2019-george-lakoff
"I spoke to Lakoff last year about how the media should deal with Trump’s lying. A lightly edited transcript of our conversation follows.
Sean Illing
Can you lay out for me in simple terms how President Trump manipulates the media?
George Lakoff
He manipulates the media by constantly tweeting and saying more and more outrageous things. The media says, “Well, we have to cover the president. We have to repeat what he says.” But there is no real reason this has to happen. Journalists could, if they choose to, ignore the president’s tweets.
Sean Illing
What, then, would you have reporters do? Ridiculous or not, what the president of the United States tweets or says has real-world consequences, so it’s not quite that simple.
George Lakoff
I wrote a book called Don’t Think of an Elephant, which makes the point that if you negate a frame, you activate the frame. When Trump says something and people working in the media deny it, they’re helping him. But they don’t realize that they’re helping him.
There’s another possibility. Journalists could engage in what I’ve called “truth sandwiches,” which means that you first tell the truth; then you point out what the lie is and how it diverges from the truth. Then you repeat the truth and tell the consequences of the difference between the truth and the lie."
What is the right amount of exposure to give to Trump and his surrogates?
Who should the media allow to speak - Conway spins everything. Sanders literally lies, Miller is heinous . . .
The media that invites in the Trump people or allow Trump to speak must be prepared to catch and check every lie, fake story, false narratives as it is spoken. Propaganda must be met immediately with unequivocal truth, facts, and honesty.
DO NOT USE TRIBAL TALKING POINTS! DO NOT MEET LIES WITH LIBERAL BS!
Immediate response is essential, smack lies down!
"Trump’s campaign manager shares a Times article to reveal what the media is hiding"
By Philip Bump April 15, 2019
". . . Parscale [A Trump campaign manager] fills some of his time running a sort of ad hoc communications effort in the style of Donald Trump Jr.: pushing out pro-Trump talking points on social media and disparaging the president’s perceived opponents.That’s a group that includes the media. So, on Monday afternoon, Parscale offered this. [Tweet]
Tax cuts are real, many in the media just doesn’t want you to know. The truth doesn’t fit their destructive narrative. This is just another collapsing lie in their web of lies. https://t.co/YarlvsVWL5
— Brad Parscale (@parscale) April 15, 2019
Parscale’s tweet has the structure of the sort of political tweet we see a lot these days, with requisite disparagement of the press and a link meant to bolster the case. But for several reasons, his tweet simply makes no sense.
The first and most obvious internal contradiction to the tweet is that Parscale claims that “many in the media just doesn’t [sic] want you to know” that “tax cuts are real,” proving his point by linking to the New York Times. The Times, we will note, is part of the media."
Lies and false narratives, of course, do not make sense usually. Pascale has too much time on his hands, but enough time to make himself look stupid.
". . . hard-pressed to identify media outlets that said the tax cuts weren't happening.There was a surge of conservative outcry a few months ago when people began discovering that their tax refunds were smaller than expected. In mid-February, the average refund was down 16 percent from the 2017 filing year. When the average was up slightly soon after, it was touted by some as proof that the media was lying about the effects of the tax bill signed into law by Trump in late 2017.
As of the most recent IRS update, the average refund is down 1.1 percent compared with last year."
Ooops. I guess we thought the GOP Tax Reform helped us. I guess it did not help.
