By Sophie O’Hara | March 6, 2020
The mainstream media often likes to tout themselves as the all-knowing, all-powerful being that should be the only source that Americans should turn to for information.
But the truth is that they constantly screwing up their facts and figures.
Case in point: Brian Williams on MSNBC recently read off a tweet that claimed Bloomberg spent $500 million on ads, which means he could have given all 327 million Americans $1,000,000 apiece.
Williams’s guest New York Times editorial board member, Mara Gray, agreed enthusiastically with these flawed figures, saying “It’s an incredible way of putting it. It’s true. It’s disturbing.”
The only problem is that that math is wildly inaccurate.
If you apply basic division skills, which many children learn early in grade school, the figure actually comes out to $1.53 per person. Not $1,000,000.
Watch the video:
MSNBC’s Brian Williams reads a tweet: "Bloomberg spent $500 million on ads. U.S. Population, 327 million. He could have given each American $1 million"
NYT Editorial Board Member Mara Gay: “It’s an incredible way of putting it. It’s true. It’s disturbing”
It's $1.53 per person pic.twitter.com/dIiwCESgh8
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) March 6, 2020
Twitter users had some great responses to this blunder, especially comedian Mark Dice, who suggested that they learned their math skills from Andrew Yang.
“They must have learned math from @AndrewYang.”
https://twitter.com/MarkDice/status/1235804222072864768
— Vote Out All Democrats (@DemoOut) March 6, 2020
🤦🏻♀️
— Kambree (@KamVTV) March 6, 2020
“Even worse- MSNBC took the time to crop the tweet and superimpose it into their screen and NO ONE on their set knew it was ridiculously wrong.”
https://twitter.com/oUSA_JEDIo/status/1235860686435016706
The really disturbing part is that not only did Brian Williams and an editor for the New York Times promote this hilariously inaccurate math, but that tweet came from the verified account of Mekita Rivas, a writer for Bustle and Refinery 29.
Pretty scary that three members of the liberal media can promote figures that incredibly inaccurate.
This piece originally appeared on WayneDupree.com and is used by permission.
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