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TRUMP SPOKESMAN’S LECTURE ON MEDIA ACCURACY IS PEPPERED WITH LIES
Here are 7 falsehoods and mischaracterizations from Sean Spicer’s debut.
As hundreds of thousands of protesters crowded Washington D.C. streets on Saturday, White House press secretary Sean Spicer stepped into the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room and unfurled a tirade peppered with blatant falsehoods. He then left the podium without taking a single question.
Spicer was sent out to dispute the national media’s reporting on the relatively lackluster attendance of President Donald Trump’s inauguration, a sore topic for the new president. Trump himself addressed the topic in remarks at C.I.A. headquarters earlier on Saturday. Speaking in front of the Memorial Wall of Agency Heroes, Trump said he was shocked by media footage of “an empty field,” saying that, to him, “it looked like a million to a million-and-a-half people.”
“As you know, I have a running war with the media,” Trump said to laughs. “They are among the most dishonest human beings on earth. Right?”
Spicer’s comments were even more acidic. “There’s been a lot of talk in the media about the responsibility to hold Donald Trump accountable,” he said. “And I’m here to tell you that it goes two ways. We’re going to hold the press accountable as well.”
All White House spokespeople spin—it’s part of the job. But it’s one thing to deflect attention from unflattering facts and trying to reframe uncomfortable realities in a more favorable narrative. What Spicer did was markedly different: he listed a number of highly specific and easily verifiable claims.
Here are those claims.
“Photographs of the inaugural proceedings were intentionally framed in a way, in one particular tweet, to minimize the enormous support that had gathered on the National Mall.
Spicer did not identify the tweet in question. Here’s an example of a tweet, which compares images of Barack Obama and Trump’s inauguration crowds, which went viral. It’s unclear how this is “intentionally framed.”
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http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/...statement-lies
Here are 7 falsehoods and mischaracterizations from Sean Spicer’s debut.
As hundreds of thousands of protesters crowded Washington D.C. streets on Saturday, White House press secretary Sean Spicer stepped into the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room and unfurled a tirade peppered with blatant falsehoods. He then left the podium without taking a single question.
Spicer was sent out to dispute the national media’s reporting on the relatively lackluster attendance of President Donald Trump’s inauguration, a sore topic for the new president. Trump himself addressed the topic in remarks at C.I.A. headquarters earlier on Saturday. Speaking in front of the Memorial Wall of Agency Heroes, Trump said he was shocked by media footage of “an empty field,” saying that, to him, “it looked like a million to a million-and-a-half people.”
“As you know, I have a running war with the media,” Trump said to laughs. “They are among the most dishonest human beings on earth. Right?”
Spicer’s comments were even more acidic. “There’s been a lot of talk in the media about the responsibility to hold Donald Trump accountable,” he said. “And I’m here to tell you that it goes two ways. We’re going to hold the press accountable as well.”
All White House spokespeople spin—it’s part of the job. But it’s one thing to deflect attention from unflattering facts and trying to reframe uncomfortable realities in a more favorable narrative. What Spicer did was markedly different: he listed a number of highly specific and easily verifiable claims.
Here are those claims.
“Photographs of the inaugural proceedings were intentionally framed in a way, in one particular tweet, to minimize the enormous support that had gathered on the National Mall.
Spicer did not identify the tweet in question. Here’s an example of a tweet, which compares images of Barack Obama and Trump’s inauguration crowds, which went viral. It’s unclear how this is “intentionally framed.”
read the rest here:
http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/...statement-lies