{"id":59362,"date":"2016-12-07T16:56:54","date_gmt":"2016-12-07T20:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=59362"},"modified":"2016-12-07T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-12-07T21:00:00","slug":"denzel-washington-blasts-media-for-selling-bs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=59362","title":{"rendered":"Denzel Washington blasts media for selling &#8216;BS&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->BY JUDY KURTZ<br \/>\nThe HILL<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"590\" height=\"332\" src=\"http:\/\/launch.newsinc.com\/?type=VideoPlayer\/Single&#038;widgetId=1&#038;trackingGroup=69016&#038;playlistId=19132&#038;siteSection=thehill2300_nws_pol_sec&#038;videoId=31713243\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" noresize marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>He was at the center of a fake news story, but Denzel Washington says it&#8217;s the mainstream media that&#8217;s selling &#8220;BS.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you don&#8217;t read the newspaper, you&#8217;re uninformed. If you do read it, you&#8217;re misinformed,&#8221; Washington, the star and director behind the new film &#8220;Fences,&#8221; told ITK at the\u00a0Wednesday\u00a0premiere inside the National Museum of African American History and Culture.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Fences,&#8221; based on an award-winning play of the same name, also features Viola Davis and centers on the life of a black family in 1950s Pittsburgh. It is set to be released on Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>Washington was the subject of a phony story earlier this year that falsely claimed he was switching his support of then-Democratic presidential nominee <span class=\"rollover-people\" data-behavior=\"rolloverpeople\"><a class=\"rollover-people-link\" href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/hillary-clinton\" data-nid=\"188224\">Hillary Clinton<\/a><\/span> to GOP White House hopeful <span class=\"rollover-people\" data-behavior=\"rolloverpeople\"><a class=\"rollover-people-link\" href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/donald-trump\" data-nid=\"261287\">Donald Trump<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>One of the effects of &#8220;too much information,&#8221; the 61-year-old Oscar winner says, is &#8220;the need to be first, not even to be true anymore.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So what a responsibility you all have \u2014\u00a0to tell the truth,&#8221; Washington exclaimed to the pack of reporters gathered on the red carpet.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In our society, now it&#8217;s just first \u2014\u00a0who cares, get it out there. We don&#8217;t care who it hurts. We don&#8217;t care who we destroy. We don&#8217;t care if it&#8217;s true,&#8221; Washington continued.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Just say it, sell it. Anything you practice you&#8217;ll get good at \u2014\u00a0including BS.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/in-the-know\/in-the-know\/309142-denzel-washington-blasts-media-for-selling-bs\">http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/in-the-know\/in-the-know\/309142-denzel-washington-blasts-media-for-selling-bs<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}