{"id":8584,"date":"2018-07-29T10:10:10","date_gmt":"2018-07-29T14:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=8584"},"modified":"2018-07-29T10:10:10","modified_gmt":"2018-07-29T14:10:10","slug":"tweet-for-the-day-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=8584","title":{"rendered":"Tweet for the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Had a very good and interesting meeting at the White House with A.G. Sulzberger, Publisher of the New York Times. Spent much time talking about the vast amounts of Fake News being put out by the media &amp; how that Fake News has morphed into phrase, \u201cEnemy of the People.\u201d Sad!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1023546197129224192?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 29, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<div style='width: 160px; text-align: right; border: 0px; padding: 5px; background: #ffffff; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #000000; line-height: 18px;' class=\"alignright\" style=\"float: right;margin:10px;\" >\n<hr>\n<p><b>&#8220;What you&#8217;re seeing and what you&#8217;re reading is not what&#8217;s happening.&#8221;<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump<\/p>\n<hr>\n<\/div>\n<p>I hope Sulzberger publishes an account of the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Trump seems not to understand that journalism is intensely competitive, that <i>Newspaper A<\/i> loves to catch <i>Newpaper B<\/i> or <i>Network C<\/i> in an error.  When the <i>New York Times<\/i> and the <i>Washington Post<\/i> and <i>CNN<\/i> are all publishing identical accounts it&#8217;s not &#8216;fake news,&#8217; it&#8217;s simply something The Donald doesn&#8217;t want the public to know.  And, of course, Trump&#8217;s pejorative &#8216;fake news&#8217; has morphed into &#8216;enemy of the people&#8217; only in the arid vacuity of his and the Deplorable One-third&#8217;s dysfunctional minds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Had a very good and interesting meeting at the White House with A.G. Sulzberger, Publisher of the New York Times. Spent much time talking about the vast amounts of Fake News being put out by the media &amp; how that &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=8584\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8584"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8584"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8587,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8584\/revisions\/8587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}