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harpua74

(49 posts) Mon Oct 21, 2024, 10:40 AM Oct 2024

Competing Headlines & Media Spin/BS

The media really went into a BS frenzy this weekend between outlets like the AP playing along with Trump's MCDs cosplay (claiming he WORKED a shift and served customers without noting the store was closed and it was staged - something they KNEW) to crap like the coverage of Trump at a NFL game.

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Competing Headlines & Media Spin/BS (Original Post) harpua74 Oct 2024 OP

The Gazette is right-center, so their take isn't surprising. TwilightZone Oct 2024 #1

I heard the chants of USA was for a veteran who was there and that they did not Bev54 Oct 2024 #2

TwilightZone

(28,836 posts)

1. The Gazette is right-center, so their take isn't surprising.

Reply to harpua74 (Original post)

Mon Oct 21, 2024, 10:50 AM

Oct 2024

As for Trump, he was both cheered and booed, as several accounts noted, so media outlets can pretty much pick and choose how they want to cover it.

This is nothing new, by the way. Media outlets have put a local/political spin on events as long as media outlets have existed. I'm not sure why this always seems to be surprising to some.

Bev54

(13,517 posts)

2. I heard the chants of USA was for a veteran who was there and that they did not

Reply to harpua74 (Original post)

Mon Oct 21, 2024, 12:00 PM

Oct 2024

even show Trump on the jumbotron.

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