Fake News!: Journalism, Bias, & Trump

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The fellas take a deep dive on media bias in the age of Trump. Emotive conjugation, Russia, and The Mooch! …and not a paywall in sight!

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Intro/outro music- Chris Farley’s Ghost by Ghost Features

Time Stamps:

01:15- media bias in history

09:46- media bias today

16:36- Russell Conjugates & Selection Bias

23:50- headlines

28:00- social media & dopamine

33:30- fake news & the Iraq war

38:23- Russia & The election

50:30- the associated press

61:17- what do we do?

65:30- Beanzo has the Scoop!

Sources:

National Guard AP

• http://www.dailywire.com/news/13610/3-most-critical-lies-ap-told-about-supposed-trump-frank-camp
• https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/trump-admin-considers-using-100000-national-guard-troops-for-immigration-raids/&ved=0ahUKEwjW6-z66trWAhVC2oMKHQIuAo8QFgglMAA&usg=AOvVaw0QtCWrcxE4T-E6UaKqjUBP&ampcf=1
• https://www.ap.org/about/our-story/news-values

The Great Clamp Down

• https://apnews.com/5ada25fc57b44a0989e681d6dc2a3daf
• http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/24/epa-department-agriculture-social-media-gag-order-trump
• http://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/transportation-department-social-media-on-hold-234044
• https://www.buzzfeed.com/dinograndoni/trump-usda?utm_term=.rt00rbm4PG#.tnAR4XNMYQ
• https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/01/25/us/politics/some-agencies-told-to-halt-communications-as-trump-administration-moves-in.html?referer=

Debate questions

• https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/11/07/donna-brazile-is-totally-not-sorry-for-leaking-cnn-debate-questions-to-hillary-clinton/?utm_term=.7fdb6c02dfc1
• https://amp.businessinsider.com/donna-brazile-hillary-clinton-wikileaks-2016-10
• https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/the-fix/wp/2016/12/16/trump-keeps-misleading-his-voters-on-the-donna-brazile-debate-scandal/ Olympian detained
• http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/more-mainstream-media-mess-ups-the-muslim-olympian-detained-because-of-president-trumps-travel-ban-was-detained-under-obama/article/2614645

gun law

• https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/latino/jorge-bonilla/2017/02/18/very-fake-news-alert-univision-misrepresented-ssa-gun-rule
• http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/444582/no-gop-did-not-just-repeal-background-check-system-or-give-guns-mentally-ill

Ice raids

• https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/amp/ice-says-california-immigration-sweep-planned-trump-orders-n719706

Tapper, Trump, Canada

• https://www.google.com/amp/thehill.com/homenews/administration/316878-trump-calls-trudeau-to-express-condolences-over-mosque-shooting%3Famp
• https://news.grabien.com/story-tapper-conway-you-want-talk-about-ignoring-terrorism-why-has

FSB sanctions

• http://dailycaller.com/2017/02/04/errors-from-the-press-are-piling-up-in-the-opening-weeks-of-the-trump-administration/?utm_campaign=atdailycaller&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Social

Voter Fraud

• https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/voter-fraud-a-myth-thats-not-what-new-york-investigators-found-1485994200

Solid collection

• http://thefederalist.com/2017/02/06/16-fake-news-stories-reporters-have-run-since-trump-won/

Trump Hangs Up

• http://www.bbc.com/news/video_and_audio/headlines/38842289/australia-pm-malcolm-turnbull-on-trump-call-call-ended-courteously

Russell Conjugation

• https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotive_conjugation

Media Bias

• http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/04/25/media-bubble-real-journalism-jobs-east-coast-215048
• http://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/Media-Bias-Is-Real-Finds-UCLA-6664
• https://www.sciencenews.org/blog/culture-beaker/unbiased-computer-confirms-media-bias

Reddit

• https://www.plannedparenthoodaction.org/planned-parenthood-advocates-missouri/issues-legislation/sb-41-hb-174-fact-sheet
• https://www.reddit.com/r/TwoXChromosomes/comments/6gxwfp/do_you_think_landlords_should_be_able_to_deny/
• http://www.house.mo.gov/billtracking/bills171/hlrbillspdf/0859S.04C.pdf

History of the Press

• https://ethics.journalism.wisc.edu/2011/04/20/the-fall-and-rise-of-partisan-journalism/

Fox lies about Obama

• http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2015/feb/26/fact-checks-behind-daily-shows-50-fox-news-lies/

Russia – Electric Grid

• theintercept.com/2016/12/31/russia-hysteria-infects-washpost-again-false-story-about-hacking-u-s-electric-grid/
• https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/russian-hackers-penetrated-us-electricity-grid-through-a-utility-in-vermont/2016/12/30/8fc90cc4-ceec-11e6-b8a2-8c2a61b0436f_story.html?utm_term=.890a342e977d

Russian bank, secret service

• https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/11/01/that-secret-trump-russia-email-server-link-is-likely-neither-secret-nor-a-trump-russia-link/?utm_term=.e857f446fa47#comments
• https://theintercept.com/2016/11/01/heres-the-problem-with-the-story-connecting-russia-to-donald-trumps-email-server/

Scaramucci

• http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/23/politics/editors-note/index.html

Pew state of the media

• http://assets.pewresearch.org.s3.amazonaws.com/files/journalism/State-of-the-News-Media-Report-2013-FINAL.pdf

Opinion dominates news

• http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2013/03/report-opinion-dominates-msnbc-159571

Social Media Dopamine High

• https://www.ama.org/publications/MarketingNews/Pages/feeding-the-addiction.aspx
• http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.459.5641&rep=rep1&type=pdf

IRAQ

• http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/26/world/from-the-editors-the-times-and-iraq.html

Gawker

• http://gawker.com/gawker-was-murdered-by-gaslight-1785456581

War Made Easy –

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9DjSg6l9Vs
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_coverage_of_the_Iraq_War