Building trust in media

14th Amendment: Validity of Debt Shall not be Questioned

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After the Civil War, Southerners objected strenuously to the fact that Union debts were repaid, while Confederate debts were repudiated. Fear that Congress might lack the votes to pay interest on the debt or repay principal, due to Southern obstinacy, led to the addition of an obscure clause to the Fourteenth Amendment preventing this from happening. It states: “The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned.”

When Republicans came very, very close to defaulting on the debt 10 years ago, a number of legal scholars argued that the Fourteenth Amendment and the president’s inherent constitutional authority could be used by President Obama to simply ignore the debt limit and sell whatever bonds were necessary to finance the spending Congress had already authorized. These included Garret Epps of the University of Baltimore, Michael Abramowicz of George Washington University, Eric Posner of the University of Chicago and Adrian Vermeule of Harvard, Neil Buchanan of the University of Florida and Michael Dorf of Cornell, Jacob Charles of Duke University, and numerous others. Former President Bill Clinton agreed.

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#3. Add Color / Entertain

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Jack Nicholson: You Can’t Handle the Truth.

With CiteIt, writers can evoke the Jack Nicholson line:

You can’t handle the truth! — by pulling in the context from a YouTube video.

This contextual citation doesn’t provide factual context, but rather helps the reader recall a favorable memory.

“They’re eating the dogs, they’re eating the cats”

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Color / Entertain

After the Trump-Harris debate, the internet responded with songs and remixes of the Trump line

  • CiteIt offers the reader the comfort of maintaining their focus within the article, while allowing them to sample media they are curious about.

VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS:  ..  And I’ll tell you something, he’s going to talk about immigration a lot tonight even when it’s not the subject that is being raised. And I’m going to actually do something really unusual and I’m going to invite you to attend one of Donald Trump’s rallies because it’s a really interesting thing to watch. You will see during the course of his rallies he talks about fictional characters like Hannibal Lecter. He will talk about windmills cause cancer. And what you will also notice is that people start leaving his rallies early out of exhaustion and boredom. And I will tell you the one thing you will not hear him talk about is you. You will not hear him talk about your needs, your dreams, and your, your desires. And I’ll tell you, I believe you deserve a president who actually puts you first. And I pledge to you that I will.

DAVID MUIR: Let me just ask, though, why did you try to kill that bill and successfully so? That would have put thousands of additional agents and officers on the border.

FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: First let me respond as to the rallies. She said people start leaving. People don’t go to her rallies. There’s no reason to go. And the people that do go, she’s busing them in and paying them to be there. And then showing them in a different light. So, she can’t talk about that. People don’t leave my rallies. We have the biggest rallies, the most incredible rallies in the history of politics. That’s because people want to take their country back. Our country is being lost. We’re a failing nation. And it happened three and a half years ago. And what, what’s going on here, you’re going to end up in World War 3, just to go into another subject. What they have done to our country by allowing these millions and millions of people to come into our country. And look at what’s happening to the towns all over the United States. And a lot of towns don’t want to talk — not going to be Aurora or Springfield. A lot of towns don’t want to talk about it because they’re so embarrassed by it. In Springfield, they’re eating the dogs. The people that came in. They’re eating the cats. They’re eating — they’re eating the pets of the people that live there. And this is what’s happening in our country. And it’s a shame. As far as rallies are concerned, as far — the reason they go is they like what I say. They want to bring our country back. They want to make America great again. It’s a very simple phrase. Make America great again. She’s destroying this country. And if she becomes president, this country doesn’t have a chance of success. Not only success. We’ll end up being Venezuela on steroids.

Source: ABC News Transcript

 

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#4. Defend against Critics / Attack Offenders / Gatekeepers

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“Not The Free Speech That I Know Of”

Stacy Plaskett In a hearing on the weaponization of government, Congressional Delegate Stacy Plaskett took issues with Robert F. Kennedy’s statements about Covid 19 vaccinations saying: this is not the kind of free speech that I know of

 

 

Defense:

CiteIt writers could build a reputation for being on the cutting edge of accountability in a way that surpasses what legacy media can match.

This accountability edge could be wielded by writers as a shield against critics and gatekeepers who call them so-called journalists and accuse them of  using cherry-picked out of context data

Cut off one’s nose to spite one’s face

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Have you every wondered the origin of the phrase: “cut off one’s nose to spite one’s face“?

Here’s the historical background:

Viking conquerors led by the sons of Ragner Lothbroc, King of Sjaelland and Uppsala (parts of modern Sweden and Denmark), conquered Norway and landed in East Anglia, sailed to the mouth of Tweed River, and sacked and burnt Coldingham in 870.  As the army approached, Æbbe persuaded her  to disfigure themselves by cutting off their noses and upper lips to avoid rape.