In the chaos of late-breaking news, some sources may report facts before they’ve had a chance to entirely vet them. It’s an unfortunate practice, but hey, when lots of big news is happening at once, a few things can get lost in the shuffle. Reporters correct them, and all is well.
This happened last Friday. Amidst the news that Donald Trump’s former security advisor Michael Flynn had been arrested and would plead guilty to a charge of lying to the FBI, it made commoners and media alike wonder who would be next to play ball with the Russian investigation. On live TV, ABC News correspondent Brian Ross said that Flynn would testify that when he was a candidate, Trump had told him to contact Russian operatives. That’s a pretty incriminating notion…and as it turns out, one that wasn’t totally true. (Trump would have been president-elect at the time, which is still bad, but different.)
ABC issued a correction on the air and on its website and suspended Ross. Old news, moving on. This was not enough to satiate Sean Hannity.
Hannity seems to think that the news media is complicit in trying to take down Trump with a bunch of lies and “fake news,” as evidenced by the sloppy reporting of ABC, and that only he and his Fox News brethren are telling the truth. “It proves what we have been saying on this program since ’08: Journalism is dead in America,” Hannity said.
People on Twitter, however, seem to think that the real fake news is coming from Hannity.
Sean Hannity, killing journalism since 2008.
He won't stop until journalism is nothing more than 30 million elderly white men screaming at clouds for being so liberal and smug. https://t.co/I5EY2XYqL5
— Finjerk (@finjerk) December 5, 2017
Sean Hannity, killing journalism since 2008.
He won’t stop until journalism is nothing more than 30 million elderly white men screaming at clouds for being so liberal and smug.
https://twitter.com/ubersein/status/938078806388113409
This is the epitome of hypocrisy. At least ABC News suspended him and Brian Ross apologized. Fox News allows Hannity to spew falsities & foment anger. This is why civil political discourse is a thing of the past.
How funny the spewer of fake news and seriously bias crap news thinks journalism is dead!! Hannity is nothing more then a loud mouth commentator! Sad puppet Hannity Loses It Over ABC News' Michael Flynn Error: 'Journalism Is Dead' https://t.co/7w8dPrzkkB
— blue lady hawke (@witchesway65) December 5, 2017
How funny the spewer of fake news and seriously bias crap news thinks journalism is dead!! Hannity is nothing more then a loud mouth commentator! Sad puppet Hannity Loses It Over ABC News’ Michael Flynn Error: ‘Journalism Is Dead’
https://twitter.com/Michell95134268/status/938092713974616064
Why does this man still have a job
https://twitter.com/dschartrand/status/938086792200273920
Sean Vanity is not news. It’s GOP propaganda
Dear Sean Hannity, Fox News and Fox News watchers,
Pointing your finger at MSM outlets who fire people for violating journalist ethics is stupid and hypocritical as it gets.
#1 It shows they are professional
#2 Fox/Hannity never admits to making a mistake they just double down— Cyrano Knows Things (@Cyranos_Nose) December 5, 2017
Dear Sean Hannity, Fox News and Fox News watchers,
Pointing your finger at MSM outlets who fire people for violating journalist ethics is stupid and hypocritical as it gets.
#1 It shows they are professional
#2 Fox/Hannity never admits to making a mistake they just double down
& how many times has he admitted fault, gotten suspended or even gotten the facts right? He is a conspiracy theorist not a journalist.
— Amber (@specsnsmiles) December 5, 2017
& how many times has he admitted fault, gotten suspended or even gotten the facts right? He is a conspiracy theorist not a journalist.