Trump cuts aid to three Mexican countries

[Jaga]

Yes, this title sounds ridiculous but this is what happened at FoxNews

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/03/foxs-3-mexican-countries-chyron-message/586195/



And so people noticed, because how could you not, when Fox & Friends briefly displayed a chyron early Sunday morning that declared: “TRUMP CUTS AID TO 3 MEXICAN COUNTRIES.”

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This was apparently an attempt to contextualize the Trump administration’s announcement on Saturday that it would cut aid to El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras—three Central American countries that are not, to be clear, Mexico. Trump had characterized the move in retaliatory terms. “We were paying them tremendous amounts of money, and we’re not paying them anymore because they haven’t done a thing for us,” he told reporters. But Fox characterized it—inaccurately, embarrassingly, tellingly—in a way that seemed to evoke some greater truth about the Trump administration, Fox & Friends, and anyone else who sees immigration and Mexico as synonymous and similarly threatening.
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TheFox & Friends slipup—later corrected, on air, by one of the hosts—suggests with chyron clarity what we can expect from Trump on the subject of immigration in the coming presidential campaign. Trump is a feelings-not-facts kind of guy—it’s why he seems so comfortable with bad information that might feel right to a person in a position of vulnerability, and it’s what makes him such a gifted communicator. It’s not that Trump can read a room, though he can—it’s that he knows and understands every single touchpoint that might make a person react. And that’s why Trump gets the importance of the chyron.

[karl]

Jaga

It would appear of a professional news media would not know their geography until reminded that those states are not Mexico, for that mistake, what else has been false?

This migrant situation is becoming interesting, for to close the USA/Mexican border is simply loose talk, what then for el Presidenti Trump to dream up next? With all critic aside, Mr. Trump is in a tight spot, he has not the backing of many of his party and with this, is the constant pressure for him to fail, from his opposite being the Democratic Party. It make one wonder if either side are forgetting they are working for the American people and the nation they are serving and not to them selves as self serving.

My self do not wish to bring about more critical comments, but with this continuing circus of affairs certainly takes our respective minds off our own troubles..

Karl

[Jaga]

Karl

+++ It make one wonder if either side are forgetting they are working for the American people and the nation they are serving and not to them selves as self serving.+++

I agree. The climate became so political. I also worry that the news agencies are losing their grip on reality and they simply do not understand the world. Such a mistake in FoxNews.... I am not really surprised. I am glad they apologized.