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C’mon, this is too easy.

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The sheer hypocrisy and dishonesty of so many of the industry's operators

Mike Hosking, in a column about media dishonesty, spreads misinformation:

From a media perspective, if the election of Trump has shown nothing else it has exposed glaringly the sheer hypocrisy and dishonesty of so many of the industry's operators...

And our most recent and perhaps best example is the photo of that distressed, some might say distraught child, that has been flashed around the world over and over again as an example of a kid who was snatched from its parents who had entered America illegally.

In that photo was the poster child of all that was wrong with what Trump was doing. Look at that face, that anguish, that fear, the child who didn't have a clue where its mother and father had been taken and whether they would ever be reunited.

And yet, as it turns out, that child was never taken from its parents at all.

And yet, the media never claimed it had been. From Snopes, which obviously Hosking or The New Zealand Herald never bothered to read:

Media outlets have consistently reported that the girl was never separated from her mother, and that information was reiterated when U.S. Customs and Border Patrol stated that the pair had not been separated.

For more evidence Hosking didn’t go beyond his right-wing headline source when creating his column, he states this:

The child was doing what a lot of kids that age do, cry. For who knows what reason, but the reason we do know is it wasn't because they had been separated from their parents.

But he would know if he read CNN’s original piece about the image:

Agents were searching people before they were taken into vans to be driven to a processing center. John Moore, a Getty photographer and Pulitzer Prize winner, took the picture after the toddler's mother set her down.

"One of the last people to get on the bus was the mother of this child and her daughter together," he told CNN's Ana Cabrera. "And when they went to body-search (the mother) against the vehicle, they asked her to put down her child. And right then, in that moment, the little girl broke into tears.

Hosking’s column is illustrated with the TIME magazine cover, showing the child on a red background with Trump standing over her – an obvious allusion rather than a factual representation of something that had actually happened.

Hosking’s column tomorrow: despite what the dishonest media may have you believe, this dog was never in any danger!

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A poll showing 65% of Aucklanders support cycleways didn't sit well with Mike "drives a Lamborghini" Hosking, so he created his own, unscientific Facebook version. And it's currently at 77% support for cycleways.

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An Alfa Romeo 4C tried to kill Mike Hosking - Lifestyle - https://goo.gl/XoVYbt - #4C, #Alfa, #Auto_Insurance, #Hosking, #Kill, #Lifestyle, #Mike, #Romeo

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Mike Hosking crashes $140,000 sports car - https://goo.gl/dHLUc1 - #Auto_Insurance, #Car, #Crashes, #Hosking, #Mike, #Sports

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Mike Hosking crashes his Alfa Romeo sports car during t... - https://goo.gl/P8u1LH - #Alfa, #Auto_Insurance, #Car, #Crashes, #Hosking, #Mike, #Romeo, #Sports

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