Daily Report
Trump lawyer argues president has the power to fire all women & people over 40 if he feels like it
I’m of the mind that if the headline is misinformative, even if the body of the article more fairly represents the issue, the work should be considered misinformation. We live in an era of pretty much exclusively headline-scanning, and news outlets know this. This headline is written to HEAVILY imply that every single woman/40+ year-old in the general American workforce could be fired. This is not at all the case. This article is about at-will employment within the Trump administration. Additionally, from the evidence provided in the article, the lawyer does not seem to be definitively stating that Trump can do so. The lawyer recognizes that this is a possibility to consider, and concedes that there may be issues of constitutional violation. While this is definitely what the lawyer is implying, there’s not really a strong, concrete stance, it seems. The clickbait-y headline just doesn’t line up.
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Misconstruing a lawyer’s statement to be definitive when it is tentative at best is highly misinformative. It seems clear that the title is meant to stir up rage and contention.