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[–] Arrvee 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago (edited ago)
Crap, get an editor.
Sentence fragment. The fragment is not tied to a noun, an "it".
And my English teachers strongly discourage opening a sentence with "And" or "But".
Saying "Deep State" is a normie turnoff. They've seen way too much drug-inspired transparent bullshit talking about the "Deep State" and they're going to assume that this is more of the same when the hostile-controlled NYT and WaPo are not reporting this and the site they've never heard of calls itself "True Pundit" which sounds like "Honest Bob's Used Car Shop" to normies.
More importantly, it may be a factual error. The people named are the most visible public figures of the government. The Deep State is Deep because it is hidden from the surface. It may be incorrect to call them Deep State when they are the most well known figures of the formal state.
Spell check would not have caught that one, but an editor might have.
Dickhead bloggers consider a Twitter inquiry a suitable opportunity to respond. Real journalists use a telephone if they cannot meet the subject in person.
But the sources had no grounds to believe this or else the article would have mentioned it.
The context is missing. Flynn was meeting with the Russians. Page may have been doing the same, given that he had suspicious dealings with Rosneft while he worked for Trump. Manafort had dealings with Russia. Wiretapping them was normal procedure since they were in contact with a foreign power.
Little mistakes like this throw a report into question. If the writers didn't put in the effort to get the grammar right, what mistakes slid through in the actual reporting? People notice.
[–] TheInquisition 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
^ Can't wrap their head around that spying on a political opponent is a huge crime so they have to attack the grammar of the article. Arrvee, look up Watergate.
[–] Arrvee ago
We need normies to believe it to generate the political will to drain the swamp. A good presentation is necessary for normies to believe it. If the presentation is fucked, normies will be disinclined to believe it or anything else the site publishes in the future. People pick up on these little things.
Have you studied MSM propaganda? They print blatant lies, but the presentation is excellent. Their grammar is fine, their sources have authoritative titles, and a dozen similar reports are published in different outlets in the same week. It looks professional, so people trust it. We need to look professional.