ERROR OR PURPOSEFUL RERUN?
by Sharon Rondeau
(Aug. 20, 2016) — On Saturday evening, a story reporting that Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump did not endorse Arizona Sen. John McCain, New Hampshire Sen. Kelly Ayotte, and Speaker of the House Rep. Paul Ryan from August 2 appeared at the top of the Yahoo! News page.
Beneath the headline of “In Blow to GOP Unity, Trump Refuses to Back Ryan, McCain” are more current stories from Thursday wherein Trump said he “regretted” having chosen certain words to express his views while on the campaign trail.
The article appears just below the featured Olympics headlines, an Obamacare story and a fundraising report on the Clinton campaign.
On August 6, Trump formally endorsed the three GOP congressmen, all of whom are seeking re-election in November.
While weekends are slower days in the news cycle and some articles are carried over from Saturday to Sunday or Friday to Sunday at Yahoo!, the recycling of old, outdated news is generally not done unless it becomes relevant to current events, as in the case of The Washington Post’s interview of Khizr Khan originally conducted in 2005 and republished after Khan’s address at the DNC on July 28, 2016 with an editor’s note.
The Post & Email has observed that Yahoo! News and other mainstream outlets are clearly biased against Republicans and Trump specifically. Yahoo! frequently features editorial columns from The Huffington Post, Esquire, The Week, ABC News, and other left-leaning outlets which masquerade as news and focus on criticizing Trump and much less on Clinton, if at all.
While Trump might receive 3-4 negative stories at the top of Yahoo!’s news page on a given day, Clinton might receive one critical story farther down where it is less likely to be seen. Trump is often depicted in photos, headlines and subheadlines in the photo featured at the top of the column in what is likely intended to be in a negative light.
The story about Trump withholding his endorsement of Ryan, Ayotte and McCain was written by U.S. News & World Report, once a well-respected news outlet which also now noticeably leans left. Its own headline on Saturday night reads, “The Man Who Would Be Caesar” with a photo of Trump from the back addressing a crowd.
Another article farther down the front page is titled, “Should the GOP Dump Trump?”
A search of key words confirms that the dated USN&WR article was republished “5 hours ago” as of The Post & Email’s press time.
Is the reposting of a weeks-old story an error or a purposeful action meant to give a false impression to readers?
At 11:02 p.m. EDT, The Post & Email contacted USN&WR to ask why its outdated story was featured on Yahoo! News on August 20, 2016.
We will advise our readers if and when a response is received.
Update, August 21, 2016, 7:49 a.m. EDT: The Yahoo! News page has been updated and the above-cited article has been removed. Featured at the top is an article titled, “Speech That Put Hillary Clinton on World Stage.” New articles focusing on Trump include “Donald Trump to Black Voters: What the Hell Do You Have to Lose?” “Donald Trump Loses His Chairman,” “Trump’s Attorney: African-American Outreach Efforts Working,” and “Republican Congressman: I Signed Anti-Trump Letter for a ‘Clear Conscience.'”
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The “news” media (aka Government News) is now openly expressing their bias. I have turned to CNN recently, after Trump has give his excellent speeches, just to see how they are covering the event. What I have seen are a bunch of no nothing pundits talking about Trump stories form a month ago. There have even been times when they totally ignore something like his reach out to African Americans and have discussed the Olympics. Of course I do not stay on CNN for a long time, but just want to get a feel for what they are covering, but why discuss “old news” unless they simply can’t bring themselves to report the new truth.
“I think Yahoo (and the rest) protest too much”, is one.
Another would be: “Is the cup half full or is the cup half empty”.
Either way, it’s how one looks at the childish and sophomoric efforts of THE ENEMY (those who are attacking the Constitution; from ISIS to Hillary supporters; from the Loretta Lynch’s and Eric Holder’s of the world (that would be the DOJ and the FBI: the specifics would read as headlines: “FBI Removes the Word ‘JIHAD’ from it’s Teaching Aids”); from the sad and intellectually malnourished who have yet to accept that BIRTHERS are not some sort of social pariah but the “Pathfinders of The Truth”; and from those who, for whatever insane reason, fail to grasp that for every Muslim male within the borders of the USA there is a RPG handy).
Me? I think of it (Yahoo’s cheap ‘temper tantrum’ antics) as a POSITIVE, as in “Good for Trump to withhold support for any RINO”, or as an ENDORSEMENT of Trump’s “so far ahead he doesn’t need — nor want – any backing from any RINO”.
Maybe Yahoo isn’t subtle. Take our television commercials, for instance: the deliberate skewing of portraying the correct percentage of a certain “ethnicity” – and here I thought that America was the ‘melting pot’ of the world — in advertising, one would (erroneously) conclude that we (the USA) are located deep in the Congo. Americans have shown — during the years of Obama – that we lack the gumption to do what’s right over “just laying back and let the enemy in and see what happens” sick attitude: it’s the “America is forever” belief, not understanding that we’re closer than ever before to be but a footnote in history’s “failed countries”.
What we got to do is oversee how the votes are counted, because you can bet your bottom dollar that this election will achieve the “World’s Voter Fraud Record of the Milky Way and, very possibly (most likely) the Universe”.