I'm Not Crazy! Press is Gaslighting Us
Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2017 6:05 pm
A few weeks ago, I mentioned a WP article that headlined something like "Trump picked a guy who once prayed for rain for his cabinet", and proceeded later in the article to make fun of the guy for being Christian, because the press oddly hates Christianity. I was later mocked for this because the article had a completely different headline and a different text from what I remembered, but the article contained no edits or retractions.
But a recent AP article has been more widely distributed, so this time there's proof that the media are changing their articles, headlines, text, completely rewriting them and leaving no edit or retraction tags behind to show it. Just pretending that the new article is the original. This is extremely disturbing.
First, the AP article as it is now can be found here.
Current text in Spoiler:
This article is dated Feb 18, yet the original tweet that happened just before the article was published happened on Feb 17, that article was linked by Claeyt on the 17th, and the Daily Wire did an analysis of that article on the 17th. The Daily Wire article, linking to the above link, quotes completely different words from what the article now contains, and a completely different headline from that of the AP article.
So, what did the AP article say originally? Well unlike the previous WP article, this one went viral. It has long been a practice of smaller news outlets to run articles and news clips from larger outlets and that helps us here, because the AP might have stealth changed their article and removed the original from their website, but they couldn't remove it from other people's websites. The original text and headline of the article can be found on many small news sites like this one or this one.
So, the original text is this:
This is an incredibly disturbing thing. As Claeyt insisted before, they HAVE to put the retractions and notifications of edits in their articles. And yet, it looks like they've realized that they really don't. Ethically, they must, but if they decide they don't need those ethics anymore, if they just start changing their history as they please because they want to insist they were never wrong or lying, how are we to trust them at all?
But a recent AP article has been more widely distributed, so this time there's proof that the media are changing their articles, headlines, text, completely rewriting them and leaving no edit or retraction tags behind to show it. Just pretending that the new article is the original. This is extremely disturbing.
First, the AP article as it is now can be found here.
Current text in Spoiler:
This article is dated Feb 18, yet the original tweet that happened just before the article was published happened on Feb 17, that article was linked by Claeyt on the 17th, and the Daily Wire did an analysis of that article on the 17th. The Daily Wire article, linking to the above link, quotes completely different words from what the article now contains, and a completely different headline from that of the AP article.
So, what did the AP article say originally? Well unlike the previous WP article, this one went viral. It has long been a practice of smaller news outlets to run articles and news clips from larger outlets and that helps us here, because the AP might have stealth changed their article and removed the original from their website, but they couldn't remove it from other people's websites. The original text and headline of the article can be found on many small news sites like this one or this one.
So, the original text is this:
This is an incredibly disturbing thing. As Claeyt insisted before, they HAVE to put the retractions and notifications of edits in their articles. And yet, it looks like they've realized that they really don't. Ethically, they must, but if they decide they don't need those ethics anymore, if they just start changing their history as they please because they want to insist they were never wrong or lying, how are we to trust them at all?