Here's a 'fake news' post the White House liked
According to John W. Schoen from CNBC, The White House staff has a lot on its plate these days – repealing and replacing Obamacare, tax reform, immigration, North Korea and Russia, infrastructure, just to name a few. So they may not have time to actually read everything that comes across their desks before the next tweet or blog post. Case in point: One of the staff's daily duties includes updating a White House blog , called "Your 1600 daily," that rounds up Oval Office memos and news highlights, with links to media reports that often include positive news coverage of the Trump administration.
On Friday, the White House posted a link to what upon first glance appeared to be a favorable review of the Trump's "skinny" budget proposal that would add more than $50 billion in new defense spending by slashing other federal programs. The proposed spending plan included everything from deep cuts in the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) budget to the elimination of federal support for the arts to reduced grants to help states provide housing and social services for the working poor.
Amid the resulting political backlash to the assault on popular programs, the overworked staffer who linked to the Washington Post story with a flattering headline could be forgiven for assuming it provided positive spin on the controversial spending plan. It was, after all, titled "Trump's budget makes perfect sense and will fix America, and will tell us why." But a closer read would have revealed that that article was, in fact, a parody piece lambasting the new budget blueprint.
"Clean rivers and breathable air are making us SOFT and letting the Chinese and the Russians get the jump on us," Post reporter Alexandra Petri wrote about a proposed 30 percent cut to the EPA budget. "We must go back to the America that was great, when the air was full of coal and danger and the way we could tell if the air was breathable was by carrying a canary around with us at all times, perched on leathery, coal-dust-covered finger," she wrote. As of Friday afternoon, the link was deleted from the White House website.
i think your topic was really good and the way you used the graphs made it really simple for me to understand what you were talking about.
ReplyDeleteThank you for using the graph, it is much easier seeing the numbers than hearing them from the TV or the radio. I enjoyed reading your blog.
ReplyDeleteThis is hilarious, but I'm not sure that White House staffer felt that way. I've had this happen to me in the early days of my social media use. I responded to an article that I didn't read, and then felt the burn when I was "corrected" for getting the entire article wrong for intuiting what was in the article via just a title. Lesson learned!
ReplyDeleteThe beginning of your blog is very true a previous congressmen, Mike Flanagan told me about he had a team of aids read the reports for him and turn a 200 page report for example into 30 pages. Those 30 pages would only cover there main points that are important for that congressmen's, not the whole report.
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