Post by nighttimer on Feb 15, 2017 13:39:49 GMT -5
Whether it's intentionally fake news from those sketchy websites that try to look legit, or mainstream news sources like the NYT or CNN, or more slanted "reporting" from rags like Slate, it is a naive perspective to think this is just a joke that people "fall for". This is serious stuff, and it's feeding the anti-Trump hysteria and probably bringing people down in the process. Which appears to be the purpose of it.
We can't deny that in this age of Twitter and the internet, outright lies, blatant misrepresentation, exaggerations, or even mistakes or bad research fly far and wide before being identified as bullshit, if it ever is. And by then, damage is done. This is a real problem.
2016
Slate blogger Miz Cracker won first place in the NLGJA Excellence in Journalism Awards from The National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association, for Excellence in Column Writing
Andrew Kahn and Jamelle Bouie won in the Online Media Caucus of the International Studies Association Awards' "Best Visual Post" category for The Atlantic Slave Trade in Two Minutes
Jamie Kalven won a Polk Award for Local Reporting for "Sixteen Shots," a Slate investigation based on the autopsy results of Laquan McDonald, a black teenager shot and killed by Chicago police in 2014
Phil Plait won the David N. Schramm Science Journalism Award for his article on a supermassive black hole
2015
Slate’s editor-in-chief Julia Turner was named among FOLIO’s Top Women in Media in 2015 in the Industry Leadership category
Slate’s “The Year of Outrage” was named a winner in the 2015 Digiday Publishing Awards for the “Best Use of Multimedia for Storytelling”
Jordan Weissmann’s piece on Katz’s deli, “The Ur-Deli,” was featured in the 2015 edition of the Best Business Writing anthology from Columbia University Press
Lexicon Valley won in Podcast Movement 2015 in the “Education Podcast” category
June Thomas and Mark Joseph Stern were both winners in the 2015 NLGJA Excellence in Journalism awards for their work in Outward, Slate’s LGBTQ blog
Amanda Hess and L.V. Anderson won first place in “Blogs” and “Features” in the 2015 Newswomen's Club of New York - Front Page Awards
Jamelle Bouie was named among Forbes’ “30 Under 30” in 2015
SlateCUSTOM won a 2015 Digiday Content Marketing Award in Best Branded Content for its work on behalf of the John Templeton Foundation
2014
Slate’s gabfests won a People’s Voice Award in the 2014 Webbys
Slate’s Political Gabfest won “Favorite Political Podcast” in the 2014 iTunes Listener Contest
Laura Helmuth’s “Two lives: Why are you not dead yet?” won a 2014 American Health Care Journalists Award
SlateCUSTOM won a 2014 Communicator Award for Roadshow for Growth under “Integrated Campaign”
Katy Waldman won a 2014 Emma award from the National Women's Political Caucus
“Don’t Jump!” by Liza Gross won a 2014 American Society of Journalists and Authors award
It must be nice to have a ready-made scapegoat to blame for all the ills of the Trump circle jerk. Darn that libbrul media and their insistence on reporting the truth! Yeah, it must be nice to have a go-to whipping boy you can dump on whenever you don't like how things are going for your orange-colored Il Duce. It's as lazy a cop-out as a Black person blaming racism for all his shortcomings or a woman saying sexism is the only thing holding her back.
Sometimes it is and sometimes it's the fault of the person starting back at you in the mirror. Trump's worst enemy is Trump. Most of his wounds are self-inflicted.
Stick to your right-wing echo chamber of biased blogs, propaganda sites like Breitbart, skewed news like Faux News and all those right-wing talk shows you probably have preset on your car radio, celawson. That way you can live happy and in harmony in that little bubble of confirmation bias you've built for yourself. You can pretend this Administration isn't a scandal away from Articles of Impeachment being introduced, that the Kremlin doesn't have its hand up Trump's ass, that you're getting the Real Deal instead of spin and talking points that you take from your bubble there and regurgitate here.
You won't know the truth of what's really happening, but hey, that doesn't seem to be something you're all that interested in anyway.