Along with the green screen trickery we saw this morning, here are a few more ways the people who bring us our weather news got fooled today. CNN, as it always does during big stories, immediately called upon dozens of correspondents, contributors and experts to go over the grim news The pause has potentially left the public in the dark about updates to scientific research and public health issues like flu outbreaks Kennedy minimized and denied controversial things he had said in podcasts, conferences or TV interviews, even though the senators quoted him directly Karoline Leavitt took digs at the press, announced a seat for ‘new media’ and seemed to reestablish the combative dynamic of the last Trump presidency In the latest episode of ‘The Poynter Report Podcast,’ IFCN director Angie Drobnic Holan points to X’s fact-checking system as a cautionary tale
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