Trump contributed to newspaper shooting (2018)

Rob Cox of Reuters got the facts wrong in Capital Gazette shooter (Jarrod Ramos).

Rob Cox of Reuters was tweeting in response to the Capital Gazette shooter (Jarrod Ramos), and said, "this is what happens when [Trump] calls journalists the enemy of the people". Only the gay black man shooter had sued the newspaper for defamation in 2012 and lost in 2015, and was doing it over that, and it had nothing to do with Trump.

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Created: 2018-06-28

The shooter had references Charlie Hebdo and two Virginia TV journalists shot on air, which happened in 2015, well before Trump announced his campaign.

Rob did delete his tweet and apologized later, and Reuters said, "bad boy"... but was not punished or fired for blatant bias.

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Reuters isn't usually quite as biased and partisan as the AP is, but that's a bar that a drunk could trip over. Still, here's some examples of their stories where they either failed Journalism 101, or they succeeded at Dishonesty 101. Even when the organization isn't bad, their feeders for content are.

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While the term goes back 100 years, the history is summed up well in a Sharyl Attkisson. While our media has always had false narratives and bad stories that are Fake News, we didn't use the term "Fake News". We called it liberal media bias or journalistic incompetence, but it's been around since the first liberal got sloppy somewhere back in Roman times.

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While the term goes back 100 years, the history is summed up well by Sharyl Attkisson.

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Reuters isn't usually quite as biased and partisan as the AP is, but that's a bar that a drunk could trip over.

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