New York Post said "Trans marathoner Glenique Frank offers to give back medal after beating 14K in female category" which, just like the Fox News example, is "true", but grossly misleading. Glenique did the race in 4 hrs 11 min, was 6,159th in the female category, and got a "finisher's medal". Ugh.
This is what I’ve been trying to tell people and everyone denies it. MAGA is obsessed with trans issues & that’s what brought them out to vote for republicans and what they are still talking about when the world is being destroyed by Trump. Democrats need to address this issue in a common sense way
Fox has been editing news stories to fit the narrative they want to project to their listeners from day one. If a news article comes from Fox, I usually skip it because I know they doctored it and it's not factual.
I always assume that Fox is pushing propaganda, and other Media skimp on the facts and data. It is not just 'if it sounds like BS', but rather, assuming that I probably going to have to do some more lifting in order to get the full context. Personally it is sad seeing Fox viewers self lobotomize.
But aren't both things true? It simply depends on your perspective. There is undoubtedly a slant, but all news organisations do this to some degree or other?
Is this the new FOX 'News' trick to stop them being sued? Tell a blatant lie that serves the propaganda message, posted (probably) in a very prominent position to stir up the base. Then post a correction (probably hidden deep down on the site/page) so that they cannot be accused of lying/deception?
Heads Up, MAGA: You’re in Love with a Psycho
Maybe this’ll be the fine solution, maybe we’ll find a way. But we’re far too lost, gotta find love. You’re in love with a psycho, and there’s nothing you can do. Tu amor es muy loco. You’ll never be without it. Songwriter: Sergio Lorenzo Pizzorno
There is a reason John Stewart accurately called fix "news" BULLSHIT MOUNTAIN many years ago. It has gotten infinitely worse since then. They are basically a propaganda arm of the dumplicans and the gqp crooks and liars.
Another Riley Gaines-style complaint. "I left with no trophy" whine about nothing. You tied for 5th place and was actually given a trophy. 5th place! If it was 1st or even 3rd, OK. But 5th place. Not news. Just a whiner.
Back in the days of the Soviet Union, there was a joke about a two-person race that Pravda covered as "The Soviet runner came in second; the American finished next to last."
This is a real-life version of that.
Large marathons like this would do well to create more categories to compete in. It would show inclusion, and the conservatives could no longer claim it was about protecting women. They'll still be mad about transgender individuals getting anything. Would kill the claim it's about "fairness".
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Framing and context is everything.
Will "legacy" media
A) Stop facilitating spin as *news"
&
B) Call out news colleagues for lies and faux-framing?
Legacy media is as guilty of "truthiness" as the blatant lies of the sources they "quote".
We have to think critically, each of us.
Maybe this’ll be the fine solution, maybe we’ll find a way. But we’re far too lost, gotta find love. You’re in love with a psycho, and there’s nothing you can do. Tu amor es muy loco. You’ll never be without it. Songwriter: Sergio Lorenzo Pizzorno
https://www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/news/riley-gaines-i-left-there-with-no-trophy-after-tie-with-lia-thomas-kentucky-standout-disappointed-with-ncaa/
FNN for Fascist Nonsense Network because it sure ain’t News
This is a real-life version of that.