{"id":65487,"date":"2017-12-20T11:00:41","date_gmt":"2017-12-20T17:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=65487"},"modified":"2017-12-19T21:07:15","modified_gmt":"2017-12-20T03:07:15","slug":"the-wapo-fake-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=65487","title":{"rendered":"The WaPo:  Fake News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That story that Trump has instituted a list of &#8220;banned words&#8221; at the CDC?<\/p>\n<p>The one <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/health-science\/cdc-gets-list-of-forbidden-words-fetus-transgender-diversity\/2017\/12\/15\/f503837a-e1cf-11e7-89e8-edec16379010_story.html?utm_term=.3b854bfeac63\">the\u00a0<em>WaPo\u00a0<\/em>reported<\/a> on?<\/p>\n<p>You mig<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/politics\/cdc-director-says-there-are-no-banned-words-at-the-agency\">ht as well be reading\u00a0<em>Buzzfeed<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The terms are \u201cfetus,\u201d \u201ctransgender,\u201d \u201cvulnerable,\u201d \u201centitlement,\u201d \u201cdiversity,\u201d \u201cevidence-based\u201d and \u201cscience-based,\u201d according to a story\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/health-science\/cdc-gets-list-of-forbidden-words-fetus-transgender-diversity\/2017\/12\/15\/f503837a-e1cf-11e7-89e8-edec16379010_story.html?utm_term=.3b854bfeac63\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">first reported<\/a>\u00a0on Friday in The Washington Post.<\/p>\n<p>But Fitzgerald said in a series of tweets on Sunday said <em>[Note to correspondents at PBS:\u00a0 check your work.\u00a0 Sic. Ed]\u00a0<\/em>there are \u201cno banned words,\u201d while emphasizing the agency\u2019s commitment to data-driven science.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oh, there was substitution suggested&#8230;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A group of the agency\u2019s policy analysts said senior officials at the CDC informed them about the banned words on Thursday, according to the Post\u2019s report. In some cases, the analysts were reportedly given replacement phrases to use instead.<\/p>\n<p>But in follow-up reporting, The New York Times cited \u201ca few\u201d CDC officials who suggested the move was not meant as an<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/12\/16\/health\/cdc-trump-banned-words.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0outright ban<\/a>, but rather, a technique to help secure Republican approval of the 2019 budget by eliminating certain words and phrases.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In other words, it was\u00a0<em>internal\u00a0<\/em>PR.<\/p>\n<p>I know a few reporters. I know they try hard to get facts, even partisan facts &#8211; sometimes even partisan facts that jostle their own partisanship &#8211; correct.<\/p>\n<p>But people who believe the mainstream legacy media doesn&#8217;t operate from systematic political bias are starting to rank down there with moon landing deniers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That story that Trump has instituted a list of &#8220;banned words&#8221; at the CDC? The one the\u00a0WaPo\u00a0reported on? You might as well be reading\u00a0Buzzfeed. The terms are \u201cfetus,\u201d \u201ctransgender,\u201d \u201cvulnerable,\u201d \u201centitlement,\u201d \u201cdiversity,\u201d \u201cevidence-based\u201d and \u201cscience-based,\u201d according to a story\u00a0first reported\u00a0on Friday in The Washington Post. But Fitzgerald said in a series of tweets on Sunday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[372,263],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fake-news","category-narrative-for-sale"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65488,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65487\/revisions\/65488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}