Thursday, September 26, 2019

Media Outlets Cut Out Crucial Parts of Trump Transcript

CNN, MSNBC, NPR, Fox News, the Washington Post, and ABC are among the media outlets that cut out crucial parts of the transcript of the call between President Donald Trump and Ukranian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

CNN twice on Sept. 25 following the release of the transcript cut out 540 words between one sentence in the transcript and another without noting that anything was between the two sentences.

There were no ellipses or any commentary noting the two sentences were not even in the same paragraph in the transcript.

After asking Zelensky for a favor, Trump in the call said: "I would like you to find out what happened with this whole situation with Ukraine, they say Crowdstrike".

At NPR, which is publicly funded, ellipses were placed between the sentence "I would like you to find out about what happened with this whole situation in Ukraine" and "There's a lot of talk about Biden's son" and the rest of the aforementioned sentence.

Fox News' Shep Smith flashed "I would like you to do us a favor though" before saying Trump urged Zelensky to work with Attorney General William Barr and Trump's lawyer Rudy Guliani to investigate Biden, failing to mention Crowdstrike.

The Washington Post, which was accused of running a false story on Wednesday, also cut out the crucial parts of the transcript on the front page of its paper, going from the "Favor" sentence to the "Biden" sentence and omitting the Crowdstrike reference.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/media-outlets-cut-out-crucial-parts-of-trump-transcript_3097282.html

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