Etiquette



DP Etiquette

First rule: Don't be a jackass.

Other rules: Do not attack or insult people you disagree with. Engage with facts, logic and beliefs. Out of respect for others, please provide some sources for the facts and truths you rely on if you are asked for that. If emotion is getting out of hand, get it back in hand. To limit dehumanizing people, don't call people or whole groups of people disrespectful names, e.g., stupid, dumb or liar. Insulting people is counterproductive to rational discussion. Insult makes people angry and defensive. All points of view are welcome, right, center, left and elsewhere. Just disagree, but don't be belligerent or reject inconvenient facts, truths or defensible reasoning.

Friday, April 24, 2020

A Post-News World

Why are most of the media misquoting Trump?

Right. And then I see the disinfectant where it knocks it out in a minute, one minute and is there a way we can do something like that by injection inside or almost a cleaning because you see it gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number (INAUDIBLE) interesting to check that so that you are going to have to use medical doctors with but it sounds interesting to me so we will see but the whole concept of the light the way it kills it in one minute that's--that's pretty powerful. Steve, please.

I had to go to RealClearPolitics to find this because so many of the "news" sources are eliminating the bolded bit.

Now, I don't feel it changes the statement too much, but it sure makes me look foolish if I'm misquoting him to people I'm arguing this statement with.

What the hell is wrong with the "news?"

This is why I've mostly unplugged from it all.

Run RealClearPolitics against your favorite "bias checker" - and if I'm right it comes out as right wing.

While almost every left leaning or traditional media source misquotes him.

Now, call me crazy, but even minor misquotes like this being run by nearly everybody in the "news" gives Trump ammunition against the press.

The press has every reason to avoid this nonsense right now. They need the moral high ground here and they can't get it by taking shortcuts, like aggregating each other from a single source instead of sitting and transcribing his actual words independently. I'm assuming this happened that way, out of expedience rather than malice but how did one misquote get such wide circulation without the press being lazy?


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