Here Are The News Outlets That Repeated Trump’s Lie About 5,000 Sprint Jobs

December 28, 2016 Oliver Willis Media and Entertainment, Politics 14

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Donald Trump did not get Sprint to bring 5,000 jobs back to the United States.

Sprint announced the plan to hire 5,000 people in April of 2015, and its parent company Softbank has had plans for jobs in the United States for months, long before Trump won.

Trump tried to take credit for this announcement as something that happened after he won the 2016 presidential election.

Many news organizations repeated his absolute lie in their headlines, without checking the facts of his claim and/or pointing out the lie in their headlines. Here they are:

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MissNormaDesmond

I agree with you about many of these headlines, but the NYT hed is completely accurate. Trump did take credit. Saying that he took credit doesn’t at all say that he actually deserved it. Moreover, the story went on to make clear that Trump’s claim was false. So it’s hard to understand why you’re trying to depict them as having done anything wrong. The NYT screws up on the regular, mind you, but not this time.
- Stephen T
  
  The essence of the story, taking undeserved credit, needs to be clear in the headline. That’s the problem.
  - MissNormaDesmond
    
    You know, I keep seeing people complaining about headlines not telling the whole story. They’re not supposed to. You’re supposed to read the article. People seem to be confusing their laziness with some failing on the part of the publication in question. The headline was completely accurate, it did not in any way state that Trump deserved credit, only that he was taking it, which was absolutely true When you say that someone is taking credit for something, the implication is already that they don’t deserve it. Otherwise the hed would simply be “Trump achieved x”, rather than “Trump is taking credit for x”.
    - Teri Simpkins
      
      Headlines are meant to grab attention so that a person will want to read the full story. Too many times lately, they give info that is contradictory to what is in the article. This is partially blamed on the fact that Americans are used to reading in 140-character bites and going no farther. Had the headline read “Trump falsely takes jobs credit” two things would have happened: Trump would have whined about the corrupt press and his followers would have accepted what he said with no complaints. The second headline would have been more accurate but wouldn’t have been read by anyone other than those who dislike Trump.
    - Oliver Willis
      
      That’s not how the world works anymore. http://www.niemanlab.org/2016/12/headlines-matter/
dalancroft

How about: “Trump Takes Credit for Jobs Decision Sprint Made in 2015”?
SillyBilly

I like how fox and the daily puke upped the numbers to 8,000
wayne bennett

That is why he got elected most main stream Media reported every lie he told as fact, the days of real news reporters is long gone,they have all sunk down to the gutter level of national enquirer,globe, and fox “news”.
sukTHEfac

-_-
Jim

Stenography, not journalism.
tryingtopickaname

So…lol…none of you folks actually read into the story on your own and did your own due diligence, instead being predictably content to unquestioningly swallow the pap manufactured by other folks consumed by hate and sore-loserdom. So much more fun to have those tantrums, right? Sprint’s CEO actually confirmed Trump’s statement, folks, Pull your diaper pins out of your soft buttocks and try reading and thinking instead of kneejerk emoting. Sprint CEO affirmed the veracity of Trump’s claim. And…again, try reading,lol…an associated deal with OneWeb was also confirmed, hence the upping of the figures.
- Oliver Willis
  
  This is false. These jobs already existed before Trump’s statement.
Heisenberg

To be fair, the fact that Trump is trying to claim credit for this move is news.
Null Static Void

This article is nonsense. You are essentially repeating exactly what the NYT article said. Trump is trying to take credit for Sprint jobs that were announced before the election. And you claim that the NYT repeated Trump’s lie?
Nice Clickbait though!