Mistakes were made!!

[DesotoCountyDawg]

In a statement released Thursday evening, Cherry Health CEO Tasha Blackmon admitted that mistakes were made.

https://www.woodtv.com/news/grand-rapids/cherry-health-admits-good-faith-mistakes-in-cbs-debacle/

 

[mstateglfr]

So they say it was effectively a re-enactment of how busy the testing site can get.
That's odd. A re-enactment should be listed as such for news coverage.

I'm sure this has caught like wild fire within the conspiracy crowds.

 

[J-Dawg]

What a weird story. What is there to gain from that? And yes, I read where they were trying to show how busy it was or could be. But news outlets foregoing the truth for a shock-and-awe production is exactly why Americans from all ends of the spectrum distrust the media.

 

[Jeffreauxdawg]

No way around it... That's fake news. Literally.

 

[TaleofTwoDogs]

For those you staged this incident, it was all about shock value, making the optics for the camera. I didn't see the CBS broadcast of this segment so I can't comment on the narrative by the CBS reporter but if it was spun in a negative way and they knew about the staging then they should be held accountable for fake news.

 

[PineGroveBully]

I suspect this will get minimum attention but had a certain network done this they would have been lambasted. I wonder how many times CBS called out POTUS for exaggerating crowd sizes.

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[RocketDawg]

One has to wonder how often such deceptions are thrust upon the viewing audience.

This brings to mind the Weather Channel guys during a hurricane - I think it was Mike Seidel, standing astride in a pose, fighting against the hurricane force winds - then just over his shoulder a couple of guys go strolling by.

Another was a news woman in a canoe, rowing through "deep" flood waters - then two guys walk into the picture and you can see the water is only a couple inches deep. The canoe was bottomed out and not even moving.

A cynical person would have to wonder just how much news that we see broadcast is believable.

 

[WilCoDawg]

I’m sure Project Veritas will somehow, yet again, be vilified for exposing the truth. Funny how that happens to take the attention away from the horrors and lies they expose.

 

[ToxicTimberDawg]

You may feel like a conspiracy theorist and lots of folks here will call you Tin Foil but go do some research on this subject. Twitter is good. You can find some stuff on YouTube but it mostly has been censored.... this example and the examples you gave are literally very common, particularly on a national news outlet level. I'm sure the conservative leaning outlets do it to some extent, as well. Factual news with no slant does not exist.

 

[thatsbaseball]

Compared to other media BS of the last few years this absolutely a nothing burger

 

[xxxWalkTheDawg]

One has to wonder how often such deceptions are thrust upon the viewing audience.

This brings to mind the Weather Channel guys during a hurricane - I think it was Mike Seidel, standing astride in a pose, fighting against the hurricane force winds - then just over his shoulder a couple of guys go strolling by.

Another was a news woman in a canoe, rowing through "deep" flood waters - then two guys walk into the picture and you can see the water is only a couple inches deep. The canoe was bottomed out and not even moving.

A cynical person would have to wonder just how much news that we see broadcast is believable.

i always get a chuckle at this one too.
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[PineGroveBully]

Biased news isn’t a new phenomenon. In what was possibly the nastiest election in U.S. history fake stories were planted in the newspapers that caused hatred between persons who were once good friends. And I’m not talking about Trump v Clinton in 2016. I’m speaking of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson in 1800. That election sewed pure hatred. I’m glad the two friends made up and repaired their friendship before they both died on July 4th, 1826.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/09/17/party-time/amp

 

[patdog]

One has to wonder how often such deceptions are thrust upon the viewing audience.

Every day. Every single day. Mainstream news (and I include Fox) is propaganda, not news.

 

[GloryDawg]

One has to wonder how often such deceptions are thrust upon the viewing audience.

This brings to mind the Weather Channel guys during a hurricane - I think it was Mike Seidel, standing astride in a pose, fighting against the hurricane force winds - then just over his shoulder a couple of guys go strolling by.

Another was a news woman in a canoe, rowing through "deep" flood waters - then two guys walk into the picture and you can see the water is only a couple inches deep. The canoe was bottomed out and not even moving.

A cynical person would have to wonder just how much news that we see broadcast is believable.

They have been doing it for ever.

 

[TaleofTwoDogs]

Biased news isn’t a new phenomenon. In what was possibly the nastiest election in U.S. history fake stories were planted in the newspapers that caused hatred between persons who were once good friends. And I’m not talking about Trump v Clinton in 2016. I’m speaking of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson in 1800. That election sewed pure hatred. I’m glad the two friends made up and repaired their friendship before they both died on July 4th, 1826.

This is very true, throughout our political history there has been considerable amount of animosity between the political parties and reported by the local printed press. The difference today is that internet based social media has exasperated the problem and it's reach is everywhere not isolated in a small area reached by print media or telegraph. Technology carries a burden of responsibility but is hard to control in a free society.

 

[Big Sheep81]

Somebody's Cherry got popped**

 

[DesotoCountyDawg]

I was finding the humor in them saying “Mistakes were made” then the actual story.

 

[dickiedawg]

From my reading of the article, this is not a case of the media exaggerating a story but the health center being filmed staging it so it looked busier than it was.
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“Blackmon would not discuss publicly whether any employees involved were disciplined. She confirmed that neither she nor the CBS News crew was aware of the spur-of-the-moment decision to add staff to the line that was made by a Cherry Health employee.”

Now, whether you believe that quote or not is up to you, but blaming the TV station is disingenuous.

 

[THE Bruce Dickinson]

Biased news isn’t a new phenomenon. In what was possibly the nastiest election in U.S. history fake stories were planted in the newspapers that caused hatred between persons who were once good friends. And I’m not talking about Trump v Clinton in 2016. I’m speaking of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson in 1800. That election sewed pure hatred. I’m glad the two friends made up and repaired their friendship before they both died on July 4th, 1826.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/09/17/party-time/amp

Adam's last words were asking if Jefferson was still alive. Fought so hard just to outlive him. That's a true competitor

 

[PineGroveBully]

You are correct, but his official last words were “Thomas Jefferson survives.” With little communication in those days he didn’t know that Jefferson had actually died 5 hours earlier.