Woah: WaPo Purposely Misquoted Clay Travis, He Secretly Recorded the Conversation

[Cathoholic]

Yet another example brought to by the Fake News Industrial Complex.

It is funny because (often CNN-loving) news snobs will carp about news outlets like Breitbart, LifeSite and even FoxNews.

This kind of exposure of Fake News from WaPo
and elsewhere in the Fake News Industrial complex routinely occurs
(the most obvious is spending almost three years of nightly lead stories about a phony Russian Collusion narrative that we all witnessed).

Yet the leftists nationwide are almost silent about it.
Yet carp about Breitbart etc.

You would think they would be too embarrassed to do that but not at all.

Woah: WaPo Purposely Misquoted Clay Travis, He Secretly Recorded the Conversation​

Posted at 7:00 pm on September 7, 2020 by Bonchie

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FILE – In this Feb. 27, 2008 file photo, The Washington Post building in Washington is shown. The Washington Post Co. reported a 69 percent jump in third-quarter profit Friday, Oct. 30, 2009, as its newspapers trimmed their losses and its cable TV and education divisions held steady. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, file)

Sometimes you get caught red-handed. That’s exactly what happened to The Washington Post in relation to a recent hit piece written about Outkick’s Clay Travis. Travis is also a regular on Fox Sports and has built quite a following the last several years as a no-nonsense, non-woke sports commentator.

The 2300 word screed in question purposely misconstrued the interview with Clay Travis. There are actually multiple examples of him being taken out of context, having the meaning of his words changed, and a direct made up quote at one point. He lays out all of them in his article for his site Outkick.com. Be sure to go there for the full story. . . .

Whoa: WaPo Purposely Misquoted Clay Travis, He Secretly Recorded the Conversation – RedState

 

[Cathoholic]

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WASHINGTON POST STRIKES OUT IN HIT PIECE ATTEMPT​

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As soon as the Washington Post told me they wanted to do a story on Outkick I knew what was coming.

The usual far left wing smear job to try and make me — and Outkick — look awful.

Been there, done that.

In fact, all of you knew what was coming as well. As a prelude to the story I polled you guys on Twitter and asked if I’d be painted in a positive light. . . . .

. . . 30k of you voted in my Twitter poll and a whopping 94% of you said the story wouldn’t paint me — or Outkick — in a positive light. The public is not dumb, they know the sports media has picked a side and I’m not on the “right” side so I don’t get positive media coverage.

I know this too.

But the reason I agreed to participate in the story was because I thought you guys would enjoy a behind the scenes perspective to illuminate just how biased hit pieces like this are. So I decided to record every minute of my conversation with the Washington Post reporter and post the portions of our conversation he decided to use as quotes to demonstrate how fundamentally artificial and devoid of context those quotes truly were.

The Washington Post’s story about Outkick is just shy of two thousand three hundred words and is on the front page of the Thursday edition of the Washington Post sports section. Do you know how many of those words are direct quotes from me?

94 words. . . .

. . . Putting how minimal these quotations are in context, the transcript of my conversation with the Washington Post was 28 single-spaced pages.

28 pages!

We talked for over an hour nearly a month ago.

That’s tens of thousands of words. The Washington Post picked less than 100 of them and lifted those quotes out of context and placed them in a negative light in their story. Now there are many flaws and outright lies in the piece written about me yesterday . . .

. . . My point here is pretty straightforward: the Washington Post’s profile of me is fundamentally dishonest.

Which use of quotes do you think gives a better sense of me and Outkick? My own words responding to the actual questions of the Washington Post that I’ve just published here or the quotes they pulled out of context to write a piece designed to denigrate me, Whitlock, and the site?

It’s important to read the news aggressively and realize that you’re being propagandized, often without knowing it. Even in “news” pieces that claim to be devoid of politics. This wasn’t an opinion piece written by a columnist. This is the work of a supposedly “objective” and “unbiased” reporter who is just there to give you the news right down the middle. . . .

Washington Post Strikes Out In Hit Piece Attempt | OutKick

 

[Maximian]

Could you please set out what he said, compared with what it was reported he said? I cannot find it in the article

 

[Cathoholic]

I never claimed we don’t do any politics. I specifically responded to a question about why we had so much politics

The first quote above: “I’m in regular touch with the White House press office,” Travis said in an interview. “I have a lot of fans in the White House,” doesn’t appear in our interview. I suppose it could have come from another source, but it’s sourced as if it came from an interview.

There are actually multiple examples of him being taken out of context, having the meaning of his words changed, and a direct made up quote at one point. He lays out all of them in [his article]

(Washington Post Strikes Out In Hit Piece Attempt – OutKick)

Today, without notifying me at all, @washingtonpost put a note at the bottom of their article acknowledging they’d misquoted me. Think about how many people they’ve done this to who didn’t have the time or resources to tape their own interview & have a transcript.

Here is what WaPo did . . .

This story has been updated to reflect that Travis, in an interview with the Washington Post, said he has a lot of “listeners” in the White House, not a lot of “fans.”

Not much but something.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2020/09/03/clay-travis-trump-college-football-coronavirus/

 

[gam197]

He did not secretly record it. He specific;;y told the interviewer he was recording the whole interview.

Washington Post : So I guess before sort of like as we start, so you, I don’t like it’s totally your prerogative to record it. I’m just like, are you planning to then release it or what?

Clay Travis : I have found that I like to do live media, right. So if I’m going to talk for 20 or 30 minutes, I would rather do it live so that everybody can hear it entirely in context. If I give a long interview answer to a question and one sentence gets pulled out, and everybody’s like, “Oh, my God, Clay, Travis said x,” and I’m like, well, actually, when you look at the context of it, it’s not exactly as it was portrayed. I want the context…

Washington Post: So it’s like, don’t quote me out of context. And I have the receipts to prove it. And then also potentially, I want to share it with my audience.

Clay Travis : 100% percent.

He says during the interview, “The reason why I am recording” is I like to do live. You would think this would have cautioned the interviewer to quote him properly. In the interview, Clay Travis did a whole segment in his interview on inviting any candidate from Biden, Kamala Harris, and a host of other candidates who have been invited on but only to talk about sports-related information.

The interviewer asked why democratic candidates do not go on and Clay Travis said he does not know why as they have been invited. He said we may be a democratic majority in hiring because he does not ask or look at politics. He does an open show with many different callers. He gets the Times and Wall Street Journal and thoroughly reads daily. His show is about sports.

 

[TMC]

Could you please set out what he said, compared with what it was reported he said? I cannot find it in the article

I never heard of Travis before this thread, but it looks like he is not actually accusing the Post of misquoting them. He is complaining that they did not quote him enough - he wanted more of his own words in their article. That seems more like a complaint about how much press he got, not about accuracy.

 

[gam197]

I never heard of Travis before this thread, but it looks like he is not actually accusing the Post of misquoting them. He is complaining that they did not quote him enough - he wanted more of his own words in their article. That seems more like a complaint about how much press he got, not about accuracy.

I think he wanted more of a general interview. If you listen to his 1+ hour interview he loved the WaPo sports section and does talk about a lot of different things but makes it clear he tries to be fair. He does have his own options but tries to keep the show focused on sports and does invites many guests but only to talk about sports.

I am sure when he read the title of the WaPo piece it kind of threw him. “Trump and the right love Clay Travis. The fight over college football is sealed.”

Clay Travis is pro-choice, anti-death penalty and voted twice for Barach Obama and never once voted Republican according to wikipedia.

 

[Maximian]

Well the way journalists normally distort the news is by selective quotations and selective reporting. The entire BLM furore only blew up because essential facts about the case were omitted.

 

[Dovekin]

Travis is as guilty of “selective quotations” i his condemnation of the Post as the Post is in its article.

The final quote used in the article came at the end when I said, “I don’t see anything that is immediately political,” while scrolling through all the current articles on Outkick.

Later Travis provides the full quote:

And here’s the final paragraph of the Washington Post piece.

“Regardless, Travis insisted that politics won’t get in Outkick’s way. Because, he claimed, Outkick doesn’t do politics.

“I don’t see anything that is immediately political,” he said one day in August, scrolling through the day’s headlines. Had he scrolled a little further he would have found that week’s “Outkick Election Pollwatch” and a story headlined, “President Donald Trump on Joe Biden’s VP Options.” Both stories quoted only one person, Trump, from an interview he gave to Travis.”

It does not reflect everything he said for that particular question, but what the Post does say is accurate. Mostly Travis seems to object to the Post doing its job, wishing he could appear unedited like he does on his radio show.

 

[gam197]

Travis is as guilty of “selective quotations” i his condemnation of the Post as the Post is in its article.

The final quote used in the article came at the end when I said, “I don’t see anything that is immediately political,” while scrolling through all the current articles on Outkick.

Read on in the Red State article and listen to what Clay Travis actually said in the audio.

Is that an accurate reflection of what I said at all?

Of course not.

I never claimed we don’t do any politics. I specifically responded to a question about why we had so much politics on the site by looking at the site and reading all the stories that we’d published on the day he was asking those questions.Most of our articles have nothing to do with politics. Sure, if you look, you can find articles like the ones he referenced. And what’s the point, that we shouldn’t publish an article about the President of the United States opinion on college football when he came on my radio show and gave it?

 

[Annie]

No, he is saying that the quotes they used did not accurately reflect what he meant in context.