Daily Report
Trump’s credibility problem on Iran
This article describes the recent conflict between Israel and Iran, along with Donald Trump and the United States’ possible intervention. Throughout the article, the author claimed that the Trump administration has credibility problems. He included multiple quotes from Donald Trump himself and from his Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard. The quotes were compared to eventually find contradictory information about Iran’s development of nuclear weapons. While the article uses multiple sources and different quotes to boost its reliability and credibility, it does insert some inherent bias on behalf of the author about Donald Trump in general. The author states, “Trump over the years has proven anything but careful about the things he says,” and “Trump often seems to say whatever’s politically expedient at a given point in time.” The author also heavily pointed to Trump manipulating intelligence to purposely lie to the American people. Some of these comments were a little unnecessary in telling a truly unbiased/neutral story. When a journalist lets their own opinions bleed into their writing, the presentation of the information is skewed. This is why I think this CNN news article is troubling and contributing to misinformation.
