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Re:George Orwell’s 1984 is currently the top selling book on... by brennebeck on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @03:09AM (#13479655)
> Every gaffe was reported on and some of it also not true

What wasn't true? Honestly curious as I don't remember any truly spurious accusations against him.

> All of this just for profit and tv ratings. There is also ego in there because who want's to be the last to break a story.

Certainly, but that doesn't discount the validity of the reported incidents.

> We see the same thing happening when a disaster occurs. For example the airport shooting. So much false information is reported just because they have to be the first/exclusive.

Yes and no. I think a lot of that comes from reporting on a developing real-time situation where information is constantly revised. That's rarely the case with speeches or political coverage of this sort.

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Re:George Orwell’s 1984 is currently the top selling book on... by manarth on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @03:53AM (#13479842) 

  I don't remember any truly spurious accusations against him.
The only one I can think of is the MLK story. In 2009, Obama removed a bust of Winston Churchill (lent by the UK to George W Bush after the 9/11 attack) from the Oval Office, returning it to the British Embassy in Washington [1].

Obama had a bust of Martin Luther King on display in the Oval Office.

After Trump's inauguration, a WH press-pool reporter noticed and reported on Twitter that the Churchill bust was back in the office (it was), then added that the MLK bust had been removed (it hadn't, it was simply obscured by a door).

It was never really a story - just a handful of tweets - and the reporter tweeted the correction within an hour [2]. Trump has used this as an example of "media dishonesty:".

[1] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/barackobama/462314...

[2] http://www.snopes.com/mlk-bust-oval-office/

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Re:George Orwell’s 1984 is currently the top selling book on... by mynameishere on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @03:50AM (#13479831)
His obsessive marijuana habit as a youth; his decades-long black nationalist religious associations; his gangster affiliations; his lengthy professional work with convicted terrorists; his family's foreign intelligence connections, etc, etc.

I suspect all of these things were widely reported, yet largely spurious accusations.

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Re:George Orwell’s 1984 is currently the top selling book on... by brennebeck on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @07:15AM (#13480778)
This sounds like you just took the largest aspersions of the last 5 presidents and threw them together. That's intentional, right?
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Re:George Orwell’s 1984 is currently the top selling book on... by cderwin on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @06:25AM (#13480531)
Here's a more in-depth record of some things that have been inaccurately and widely reported[0], and interestingly enough, from a right-wing magazine that refused to support Trump's nomination.

[0] http://thefederalist.com/2017/01/23/mainstream-media-still-b...

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Re:George Orwell’s 1984 is currently the top selling book on... by brennebeck on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @07:08AM (#13480737)
That's a great reference. And very accurately describes the state of the media (broadly speaking).
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Re:George Orwell’s 1984 is currently the top selling book on... by humanrebar on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @04:56AM (#13480112)
There's a meme that Trump is anti-gay or even dangerous for LGBTQ people when he's pretty liberal-to-ambivalent about LGBTQ issues. At least given his statements and positions so far.
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Re:George Orwell’s 1984 is currently the top selling book on... by baddox on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @07:13AM (#13480767)
Only if you don't count virtually everyone he has picked in his administration, starting with his VP.
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Re:George Orwell’s 1984 is currently the top selling book on... by brennebeck on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @07:10AM (#13480746)
While his personal opinions don't seem to be broadcast regularly I don't think this serves as a great example given his choice of VP.
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Re:George Orwell’s 1984 is currently the top selling book on... by flukus on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @05:32AM (#13480271)
Peter Thiel got the same treatment despite being gay and clarifying his position, which wasn't at all unreasonable.
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