Media on 'Alternative Facts': 'We've Gone Full Orwell'

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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> From: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne () warpspeed com>
> Date: January 23, 2017 at 9:46:39 AM EST
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> Subject: [Dewayne-Net] Media on 'Alternative Facts': 'We've Gone Full Orwell'
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> [Note:  This item comes from friend Mike Cheponis.  DLH]
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> Media on 'Alternative Facts': 'We've Gone Full Orwell'
> Reporters react to White House's first presser: 'These are not normal times’
> By Rob Quinn,  Newser Staff
> Jan 23 2017
> <http://www.newser.com/story/237240/dan-rather-slams-orwellian-use-of-alternative-facts.html>
>
> (Newser) – Dan Rather has been in the news business for longer than most of Donald Trump's aides have been alive and 
> he says the weekend's goings-on were like nothing he has seen before. In a Facebook post, the former CBS anchor slams 
> adviser Kellyanne Conway for the "Orwellian" use of the phrase "alternative facts," press chief Sean Spicer for 
> "bullying and lying" in his first White House appearance, and Trump himself for boasting about the size of inaugural 
> crowds "before the stars of the fallen CIA agents," the Hill reports. "These are not normal times," Rather writes, 
> calling for reporters to ask congressional Republicans about what they plan to do about "lying from the White House." 
> "Facts and the truth are not partisan," he writes. "They are the bedrock of our democracy." In other coverage: 
>
>    • Twitchy reports that sources have told reporters at New York magazine and the New York Times that Saturday's 
> press conference may have been a "trap" for Spicer. The sources say Spicer was RNC chief Reince Preibus' choice, not 
> Trump's, and the president described the press secretary's performance Saturday as "terrible.”
>
>    • The New York Times reports that many others in the media reacted with alarm to a standoff developing with the 
> Trump administration this quickly. In Sunday's coverage, many outlets described Spicer and Trump's statements as 
> "lies" or "falsehoods," the Times notes.
>
>    • In a single press conference, Spicer managed to kill off the traditional way of reporting on a president, writes 
> Margaret Sullivan at the Washington Post. But "journalists shouldn’t rise to the bait and decide to treat Trump as an 
> enemy," she writes. They should remember that their mission is to hold public officials accountable and "dig in, 
> paying far more attention to actions than to sensational tweets or briefing-room lies—while still being willing to 
> call out falsehoods clearly when they happen.”
>
> [snip]
>
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