Current Event 1

(only watch first couple of minutes)

CNN (Cable News Network) is the number one American news channel that definitely has the reputation of leaning left on most topics. One topic that seems to never leave the headlines is President Donald Trump. If you have ever watched CNN they usually never have anything good to say about President Trump. Lately CNN has been covering President Trump's daily whitehouse briefings about the coronavirus pandemic. At one of these briefings President Trump was commenting on how they learned disinfectants can kill the virus and his exact words were "and then I see the disinfectant where it knocks it out in one minute. Is there a way we can do something like that by injection inside or almost a cleaning ... it would be interesting to check that” (Valinsky 2020). After this comment was made media outlets such as CNN and MSNBC (claims to be left wing) were scrambling to spread fake news and make their headlines say something along the lines of President Trump suggesting that we inject ourselves with disinfectant to combat the coronavirus, when that isn't what he said at all. The key part of this comment he made you have to look at is when he said “something like that by injection inside.” He wasn't telling people to shoot up with lysol, he was basically saying it would be nice if we could inject something,like a drug, that could mimic what these disinfectants do to the virus. CNN and other left wing media outlets changed up his words just enough to give them a headline in their favor. Then once this Information got to social media the fake news spread like a wildfire, and most people when they read that headline probably believed it without fact checking it themselves. Eighty-six percent of Americans who receive most of their news from social media, won’t fact check their sources (Brown 2017). This just goes to show how any major biased news outlet giving out false information can still be very influential to the general public.