CNN is not fake news

I presumed you knew the difference between false, or misleading, news and fake news. Just as you probably know the difference between a mistake and deception (i.e. a lie). If the intention of article was to discredit Trump, you need to provide factual evidence. If you can't then it's nothing more than conjecture. Please stick to the facts and if you're going to make any claims, please provide evidence. The twitter post reads "Trump joined his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe in feeding fish, emptying the whole box of food into a koi pond." In fact, Trump was with Abe, he was feeding fish and he indeed emptied a box of food into a koi pond. If these are facts, it's impossible for it to be fake news. Facts and fake news are mutually exclusive. Let's move forward into the article itself: "President Donald Trump took a moment out of his whirlwind Japanese trip to connect with nature and feed some fish, but after a few delicate scoops, he resorted to a grand gesture met with some laughter. The moment happened as Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe headed to lunch. The leaders were escorted to a dining room that overlooks a koi pond at Akasaka Palace. Moments later, aides opened two large screen doors and the leaders emerged holding two small wooden boxes filled with fish food. As an aide clapped loudly, Abe and Trump tossed spoonfuls of fish food into the pond. Then, with a look of enjoyment, Trump quickly poured his entire box of food into the pond. The move got Trump some laughs, and a smile from Abe, who actually appeared to dump out his box of food ahead of Trump. The two leaders then sat down for lunch. Trump was at Tokyo's Imperial Palace for a greeting with Japan's 83-year-old Emperor Akihito before settling down for meetings and lunch with Abe, who has become Trump's closest partner in Asia as he confronts an increasingly hostile North Korea. The two men spent much of Sunday at informal engagements in and around Tokyo, lunching on hamburgers at an exclusive country club before playing nine holes of golf. In the evening they were joined by their wives for dinner at a high-end eatery in the Ginza district. In his public appearances so far, Trump has sought to cast himself as a highly successful chief executive, touting the US economy while taking credit for a streak of hiring by American companies." Aside from a few adjectives, this is all objective and factual...so, again, it doesn't meet the standard of fake news. When objectively looking at the tweet, title, article and video, CNN stuck to the facts...they did not include personal sentiment, opinion or anything that can be viewed as subjective. As for CNN focusing on Trump, he's our president. They're reporting on him feeding fish (as absurd as that sounds...but you choose this example). You mention 95% of the people didn't read the full article. Please provide evidence. If i made the claim '95% of readers actually read the article' you'd ask me to provide evidence. Again, please stick to the facts. As for the video itself, and why it was used, you need to understand how journalism works. For the tweet, the video content was provided by a CNN photo journalist...the person behind the camera was employed by CNN (we know this because the video is uncredited). The video used in the article was taken by Jim Watson. Jim, who is employed by Agency Franc-Presse, sold the video to CNN via Getty Images. We know this because he is credited with the video within the article. If you're not familiar with Getty Images, it's a stock photo agency that most, if not all, major news networks use when needing photos and videos for their news articles. Back to Twitter....since Twitter is used to report the news contemporaneously you would have to prove the photojournalist, the journalists (Kevin Liptak and Veronica Rocha) and the editor all conspired to make the president look bad. Since they didn't know Trump was going to dump the food, and twitter is used contemporaneously, they would have needed to conspire almost immediately and acted within seconds. However, this conspiracy is proven false since CNN purchased the video from Getty and actually used it...talk about one bad oiled conspiracy machine. So to say CNN tweeted that to intentionally discredit Trump, with the aforementioned elements in place, is inaccurate. To answer the questions you asked: - Why did they crop out Shinzo Abe dumping out food? It wasn't cropped. Two different photo journalists. -Why not include the full video, and avoid all of this? Because they didn't purchase the Getty Image until after the fact and in order to quickly report on the event, they used the CNN photo journalist's video. Again, CNN's photo journalist didn't know Trump was going to dump the food so zooming in on him (again, before he dumped the food) was arbitrary and innocent. - Why even make news of this? Question for another debate....but, again, this is the example you decided to use. - Why caption/label it the way they did? I agree, it could have been captioned differently, but it's not 'fake news.' -Even though they included the sentence about Abe "appearing" to dump out food, the overall purpose was still to mislead readers. You still haven't provided evidence of intent. You're argument is based on theory and subjective speculation. If I were to make a claim, it would be fair for you to ask me to provide evidence. Again, 'fake news' is the publication of false information with the INTENT to mislead the reader.