Is Trump more dishonest than the mainstream media?

[Shadow Wolf]

I'm going to be a hardcore "definition Nazi" and point out that "the media" encompasses not just news, but music, radio, movies, books, paintings, social media, anything that is a form of mass communication. Overall it probably is more dishonest than Trump, but to compare Trump to "the media" does technically ask if Trump is more dishonest than many things, including Game of Thrones.
That being said, Trump lies so much he is less dishonest that major cable news outlets (what "the media" has taken to mean in these times of mass ignorance).

 

[DavidFirth]

Hop in.

Hahahahaha, after you.

 

[Quetzal]

Did someone say.... Camelot?

A great documentary!

 

[Nakosis]

People who value integrity.

It's not that hard really to feign integrity. If the media agree with Trumps views, I suspect they'd go right along with it.

The ability to feign is actually more valuable to a politician than integrity itself. Most folks think they can't tell the difference between real integrity and false integrity. A good faker, trust me, you couldn't tell. Then there's those folks who actually do value integrity but have zero ability to give that perception. They could be 100% honest all the time and nobody would believe them.

I've sometimes felt if I valued integrity less, I'd be more successful. Actors, salesmen, lawyers, politicians all make a good living on their ability to feign integrity.

 

[sun rise]

Well, I don't. It's all opinionated jargon, anyway.

There is indisputable bias in some reporting. But it's not "all" that - in some cases there is out and out lying which the right is trying to make a standard way of implementing a 1984-style dictatorship.

 

[DavidFirth]

There is indisputable bias in some reporting. But it's not "all" that - in some cases there is out and out lying which the right is trying to make a standard way of implementing a 1984-style dictatorship.

I don't see anyone trying to do that.

 

[Stevicus]

You don't remember the glamorized coverage of Kennedy?

I was born a month after the assassination. I mostly remember all the talk of the assassination and the various theories about it.

 

[Revoltingest]

I was born a month after the assassination. I mostly remember all the talk of the assassination and the various theories about it.

Whippersnapper!
But I don't remember presidents before Kennedy.

 

[Stevicus]

Whippersnapper!
But I don't remember presidents before Kennedy.

I was born during LBJ's administration, but the first president I remember was Nixon.

 

[Quetzal]

I was born during LBJ's administration, but the first president I remember was Nixon.

No better way to start your understanding of politics!

 

[Sapiens]

Nobody compares with Trump when it comes to lying.

 

[YmirGF]

No better way to start your understanding of politics!

Mine began with JFK. I didn't care much for LBJ.

 

[Stevicus]

No better way to start your understanding of politics!

Yeah. I don't mind saying I had a rough childhood. Abusive family, moving around a lot, new schools, lousy neighborhoods, and NIxon.

 

[Kenny]

You can't really believe anything Trump says, so I would have to say that the MSM is slightly more believable. Sadly though, even they have had a credibility problem for quite awhile. But, I will agree, Trump is in a class all his own.

Reminds me of the previous administration.

 

[Twilight Hue]

Trump simply started the "fake news" craze to personally fight against everything he personally disagrees with; it's ironic how he doesn't refer to anything on Fox News as "fake news".

The only "fake news" comes from Trump himself.

Don't buy into the fake news.

 

[Twilight Hue]

Nobody compares with Trump when it comes to lying.

Lying and twisting the truth.....


Hard to tell nowadays.

 

[Stevicus]

And here I was blaming the voters who weren't smart enough to think for themselves.

Well, yeah, I guess they can blamed as well. Although from what many have been saying lately, the voters are blameless, since they were apparently victims of Yuri's mind control ray.

 

[sun rise]

Whippersnapper!
But I don't remember presidents before Kennedy.

I liked Ike.

 

[metis]

Mine began with JFK. I didn't care much for LBJ.

Ditto, however I voted in a high school mock election for Nixon in 1960.

 

[metis]

Reminds me of the previous administration.

Huh?