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Another zillion mainstream media lies here:

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/03/29/the_medias_top_lies_and_spins_about_covid-19.html

February 28, 2020: Politico published a piece entitled, “Trump rallies his base to treat coronavirus as a ‘hoax.’” Many in the media and Democratic Party echoed this fake news. Trump was in fact calling the criticisms of his administration’s response to the coronavirus the Democrats’ new hoax.
March 5, 2020: CBS News posted a story falsely claiming President Trump told sick people to go to work. If you read the actual quote, he is talking about healthy people going about their business not knowing that they have the virus: “So if, you know, we have thousands or hundreds of thousands of people that get better, just by, you know, sitting around and even going to work, some of them go to work, but they get better.”
March 12, 2020: An Atlantic staff writer upheld the lie that China was “sending aid” to Italy out of goodwill, despite it being disproven by The Washington Post. The shipments in question were exports that had been purchased by Italy and other receiving countries.
March 12, 2020: NBC , NPR , Newsweek , Joe Biden, CNN, and Esquire falsely claimed that President Trump blocked coronavirus testing and rejected WHO coronavirus test kits because lower numbers are good for his re-election.
March 13, 2020: The stock market soared and the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at a record increase after President Trump and his coronavirus task force held a press conference on the government’s response. CNN had only criticisms of the administration’s response with no mention of the stock market gains, according to The Federalist.
March 13, 2020: The Washington Post published an opinion piece that falsely claimed that President Trump closed the White House Pandemic Office. The Washington Post later released an article that fact checked the initial claims from the opinion piece.

March 15, 2020. The Atlantic published a piece, "The Coronavirus Called America's Bluff," that attempted to assert the Trump administration is just as bad as China's Communist Party in its handling of the coronavirus. Keep in mind that China silenced doctors and journalists and lied to the WHO to keep the pandemic under wraps.
March 16, 2020: The Daily Beast took a cheap shot at the president, but worse, it misled Americans when it headlined a story, “President Trump told several governors that they are largely on their own in stocking up on gear such as respirators and ventilators to fight the novel coronavirus.” Other outlets then echoed the phony report. The president actually said, “We will be backing you, but try getting it yourselves. Point of sales, much better, much more direct if you can get it yourself.”
March 16, 2020: CNN falsely claimed that the Trump administration is considering imposing a national curfew.
March 16, 2020: Reuters, The Guardian, Business Insider, and staffers at the New York Times and MSNBC falsely claim that Trump wants to monopolize a coronavirus vaccine.
March 17, 2020: In a tweet, MSNBC analyst Glenn Kirschner suggests Donald Trump is guilty of negligent homicide “for the way he’s mishandled the Coronavirus crisis.”
March 17, 2020: A doctored tweet suggesting that President Trump would withhold federal aid from his critics circulates on Twitter and Instagram, which FactCheck.org debunked.
March 18, 2020: A Washington Post columnist falsely accused Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of delaying the House’s vote on the coronavirus bill. (To its credit, the paper later ran a correction at the top of the column.)
March 18, 2020: Rick Wilson tweets “#BeInfected” in response to a story about First Lady Melania Trump appearing in public health PSA’s on the coronavirus, which he later said was a joke, deriding the First Lady’s #BeBest campaign.
March 19, 2020: NBC News published a story entitled, “Italy has a world class health system. The coronavirus has pushed it to the breaking point.” Despite NBC’s best efforts to fear monger, a quick Google search tells us that Johns Hopkins ranks Italy’s system, in relation to treating the sick and protecting health care workers, as number 54 in the world.
March 20, 2020: The Daily Mail criticized Trump for calling the coronavirus the Chinese virus, dubbing it racist when the outlet itself used the term just two short months ago because the virus did, indeed, originate in China.
March 20, 2020: CNN published a story entitled, “Yes, Of Course Donald Trump Is Calling Coronavirus The 'China Virus' For Political Reasons”.
March 20, 2020: The Atlantic published a piece blaming President Trump’s personality for the coronavirus outbreak.
March 22, 2020: The New York Times changed a headline from, “Democrats Block Action on $1.8 Trillion Stimulus” to one that blames “partisan divide.”
March 23, 2020: Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough tweeted: “There is no public benefit to this briefing. The networks should all cut away.” This tweet came despite recent polling that shows the majority of Americans approve of President Trump’s response to the coronavirus and disapprove of the media’s coverage.
March 23, 2020: A tabloid run by the Communist Party of China posted a video that contained footage of American media outlets and politicians repeating China’s talking points to portray China’s response to the coronavirus as favorable.
March 23, 2020: An NBC Reporter insinuated that President Trump is responsible for the death of a man who consumed fish tank cleaner. You must read further into her thread to get the crucial fact — that what the man consumed was a parasite treatment for fish, not the medical form of Chloroquine that President Trump has discussed. It’s worth noting the salacious tweet alleging President Trump’s responsibility in this received over 34k retweets, while the final tweet in the thread specifying that the toxic ingredient consumed by the man was not actually the medical form of the drug in question got fewer than 3k retweets.
March 24, 2020: MSNBC host Rachel Maddow tweeted that cable news networks should stop covering the President’s coronavirus briefings, propagating that the President is amplifying misinformation. Seattle NPR announced they will stop airing the President’s coronavirus briefings. Coincidentally, networks are wanting to cut coverage of these briefings as President Trump’s approval rating hits its highest level since 2017.
March 26, 2020: Vox published a story “Trump’s reckless promotion of hydroxychloroquine to fight coronavirus, explained”. Vox failed to mention that when Anthony Fauci was asked if he would prescribe hydroxychloroquine he said "Yeah, of course, particularly if people have no other option. These drugs are approved drugs for other reasons."

Patrick says

richwicks says

Who are "the globalists"?

People who profit from outsourcing manufacturing and insourcing mass illegal labor, or from selling to a global customer base.

Or their minions who get funding to cry RACISM and feel better about themselves.

Jeff Bezos is perhaps the classic globalist, richest guy in the world largely through importing Chinese goods.
Apple, because it produces in China and sells here.
Google and Facebook, because the majority of their profits and employees come from abroad.
All of Hollywood, which makes the majority of its profits from abroad as well and bitterly hates traditional American culture.
Every restaurant and bar owner who employs illegals to save on wages (probably the majority).
Maj...

Another good example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Benioff

On September 16, 2018 Marc and his wife Lynne bought Time for $190m.[24]

Benioff supported Hillary Clinton for President of the United States in the 2016 presidential election.[58]

Article is a year old, but totally relevant today:

https://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/2019/february/fmr-cbs-reporter-lara-logan-says-shes-being-targeted-for-calling-out-liberal-media-bias

A former top correspondent for CBS News is calling out the so-called "mainstream" news media for their left-wing bias and anti-Trump agenda. ...

"Michael Calderone, who was at the Huffington Post. I can literally give you the script now; I can tell you who the players are. Joe Hagan, Brian Stelter, it's the same people all the time and they're all saying the same things and... they come after you, they come after me," she said.

"If there are any independent voices out there, if there are any journalists that are not beating the same drum and giving the same talking points, then we pay the price," Logan added.

She accused her critics of failing to honestly engage opposing viewpoints by addressing the substance of an argument. Logan argued that instead, they resort to smear tactics.

"They can't go after the things that matter, so they smear you personally," she said. "They go after your integrity; they go after your reputation as a person and as a professional and they'll stop at nothing."

The backlash against Logan comes after a recent guest appearance on an episode of retired Navy SEAL Mike Ritland's "Mike Drop" podcast in which she noted, "The media everywhere is mostly liberal. But in this country, 85 percent of journalists are registered Democrats."

"Unless you seek out Breitbart on your computer, you're probably not even going to know what the other side is saying," Logan told Ritland. ...

"The problem is the weight of all these organizations on one side of the political spectrum. When you turn on your computer, or you walk past the TV, or you see a newspaper headline in the grocery store, if they're all saying the same thing, the weight of that convinces you that it's true. You don't question it – because everyone is saying it."

Logan acknowledged that her candour amounted to career suicide. She also noted that the hostility coming from members of the mainstream media served as evidence that her claims of left-wing media bias are on point.

"It's obvious, right, because you get targeted. It's the same group of people. They're already starting to target me again now and I was expecting it. I know they're gonna come after me again. The same people come after you."

She was raped by a gang in Egypt while reporting there:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8216027/Former-CBS-News-reporter-Lara-Logan-recounts-Cairo-gang-rape-slams-coverage-assault.html

It would be interesting to know if this made her more realistic about Islam, or if she already understood the true nature of Islam before being raped.

Islamic law allows and encourages all Muslim men to rape any non-Muslim woman they please, at any time:

https://www.raymondibrahim.com/2016/02/11/the-muslim-mans-sexual-rights-over-non-muslim-women/

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/covid-19-almost-cured-chris-cuomo-of-journalism

COVID-19 almost cured Chris Cuomo of journalism
by Becket Adams
April 14, 2020 07:15 PM

CNN’s Chris Cuomo suffered a sort of existential crisis this week, confessing outright during a radio interview that he considers what he does for a living to be soul-crushing and devoid of any real meaning.

Unfortunately, his moment of clarity lasted not 24 hours before he performed a full backtrack, claiming he never said the things he said about CNN, his job, and journalism.

“I don’t like what I do professionally,” the cable host said Monday during an interview on SiriusXM. “I don’t think it’s worth my time.”

He added, “I don’t want to spend my time doing things that I don’t think are valuable enough to me personally. I don’t value indulging irrationality, hyper-partisanship.”

There must be a lot of reporters who know that what they are doing for the mainstream media is only political fraud and propaganda. Maybe more of them will start to tell the truth.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1250013815812603906.html

1/ And @nytimes continues to slide further into fiction this morning with this gem: the US needs “foreign doctors” because hospitals “are scrambling to address a shortage of medical professionals... (and keep) a full supply of health care workers.”

2/ Meanwhile, back on planet Earth, hospitals are desperately laying off employees because they’re so empty:





4/ But I can only keep asking: What are @nytimes @washingtonpost etc doing? Why are they going to such lengths to keep driving unfounded - and at this point actively counterfactual - narratives for as long as possible?

I agree. Trump tells it like it is regarding the chinese and other countries taking advantage of the US.
But with trumps 99% bullshit bullhorn going on 24/7, people have come to not believe whatever he says, and thus miss out on the bits of truth that do come out.

Patrick says

Trump will at least tell the truth about China's devastation of American manufacturing.

https://spectator.us/mainstream-media-take-tara-reade-seriously/

The Times’s handling of the Reade accusation stands in stark contrast to how the newspaper covered allegations of sexual misconduct against then-Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh in 2018. ...

The media’s deference to Democrats over their accusers on issues of sexual assault and misconduct has played out numerous times over the past few years. ...

t’s perhaps an even bigger slap in the face to share an accusation and discover that the so-called arbiters of truth in the media are covering for their politician of choice...

The NY Times is not a newspaper. It is just a propaganda platform for Democrats/globalists/racists who hate white people.

Y says

trumps 99% bullshit bullhorn going on 24/7

Got an example of said bullshit?

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You want people to feel sorry for you ?

Onvacation says

Y says

trumps 99% bullshit bullhorn going on 24/7

Got an example of said bullshit?

Lol, yes, the reality is the media's bullshit horn going on 24/7 about Trump.

Just directly watch Trump's press conferences and then compare it to what the press says about them.

HEYYOU says

richwicks & Patrick,

Fuck Dems & Reps.
I'm an Independent.

Let's see:
- repetitive mindless bashing of Reps/Cons
- glee for violence
- void of logic or coherency
- occasional bashing of Dems, just as mindless
- antisemitic
- full of vile, heart attack waiting to happen.

Sounds like far left to me.

Patrick says

Why are they going to such lengths to keep driving unfounded - and at this point actively counterfactual - narratives for as long as possible?

Thanks for posting this. Backs up my real world narrative that hospital staff are LOSING their jobs. Not even in demand in most places. There's nowhere near enough sick patients without kids breaking bones playing sports, car accidents, shootings, etc. I wouldn't be shocked if there are hospitals that go under/BK during a fucking PANDEMIC! AAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!

Onvacation says

Got an example of said bullshit?

MSM lies, Trump bullshits as a good used car salesman which he is. When he talks about "being the best" or "build a wall" or whatever, that is bullshit usually. There is an interesting book about this topic:

On Bullshit is a 1986 essay, reprinted as a 2005 book, by philosopher Harry G. Frankfurt which presents a theory of bullshit that defines the concept and analyzes the applications of bullshit in the context of communication. Frankfurt determines that bullshit is speech intended to persuade without regard for truth. The liar cares about the truth and attempts to hide it; the bullshitter doesn't care if what they say is true or false, but rather only cares whether their listener is persuaded.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Bullshit

I'd say that we expect politicians to be sleazy scumbags, but what is somewhat not expected is that media are even worse sleazy scumbags.

rd6B says

I'd say that we expect politicians to be sleazy scumbags, but what is somewhat not expected is that media are even worse sleazy scumbags.

Lol, yes. Trump is no saint, but the media is far worse. They make Trump look like a paragon of virtue by comparison.

It drives the media crazy that they have lost the power to control presidents by threatening to print bad things about them. They've used all their ammo and just look bitter and foolish now.

Booger says

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(WHY WAS THIS LABELED PERSONAL ?)

That is weird. We all know that it's a terrible misrepresentation. They couldn't find a graphic of people lined up at grocery stores, becasue it isn't actually happening, so they used a random photo of people lined up at a grocery store, from a totally different situation.

THats some seriously unethical journalism right there. Even worse than when what's his name pretended the water was as deep where he was standing (actually kneeling) as it was elsewhere within a few hundred yards.

Patrick says

They make Trump look like a paragon of virtue by comparison.

Hahaha. TDS.



Some of us still know what being truly unethical means.

Patrick says

It drives the media crazy that they have lost the power to control presidents by threatening to print bad things about them. They've used all their ammo and just look bitter and foolish now.

The Media right now is the point in the Chuck Norris Movie when the Bad Guy begins throwing his pistol at Chuck's face because he's out of ammo and he's about to get taken down.

NoCoupForYou says

CNN exists only as a propaganda tool now, not as an actual source of journalism.

WookieMan says

Patrick says

Why are they going to such lengths to keep driving unfounded - and at this point actively counterfactual - narratives for as long as possible?

Thanks for posting this. Backs up my real world narrative that hospital staff are LOSING their jobs. Not even in demand in most places. There's nowhere near enough sick patients without kids breaking bones playing sports, car accidents, shootings, etc. I wouldn't be shocked if there are hospitals that go under/BK during a fucking PANDEMIC! AAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!

This is happening, I know it first hand. Hospitals in SF are starting to furlough workers because their census is too low. Meaning there are not enough patients to justify the staffing they had been running with prior to Covid pandemic. In addition the spike in Covid patients never arrived.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/04/exclusive-images-boy-used-youngest-coronavirus-victim-uk-portugal-belgium-photo-2017-boy-ireland/

The image is of Conor Wilmot, a 13 year old Irish boy who died in 2017. Conor’s pictures are being used in reports about the identity and nationality of the youngest Muslim COVID-19 victim in the UK, Portugal and Belgium.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/04/vdare-founder-files-5-million-lawsuit-new-york-times-libel-article-smearing-rep-steve-king/

Anti-immigration website VDARE’s founder Peter Brimelow has filed a $5 million lawsuit against the New York Times for libel over an article in which they referred to the website founder as an “open white nationalist” in an effort to slime Rep. Steve King.

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Turns out we were something like the 38th country to stop flights from China. BFD.

marcus says

Turns out we were something like the 38th country to stop flights from China. BFD.

Flights are still coming and going. There's just no demand for people to travel right now. Just check flight aware and you'll see flights coming in from China. Mostly goods, but a few passenger flights. Trump just stopped non-essential travel incoming to the US. If he was the first or last it really doesn't matter either. This virus has been so politicized for no reason it's making people look like tards because it's basically harmless outside of nursing homes.

https://spectator.us/new-york-times-world-health-organization/

Donald Trump announced this week he intends to halt funding for the World Health Organization over the group’s suspicious relationship with China. Doubtless you’ll be shocked to hear that the establishment media quickly fell in line to defend one of its favorite globalist institutions, regardless of its actual effectiveness. The New York Times, fresh off picking apart the woman who has accused Joe Biden of sexual assault, scraped together an article defending the WHO’s response to the coronavirus outbreak in a stunning display of revisionist history.

‘The World Health Organization, always cautious, acted more forcefully and faster than many national governments’, declared the Times‘s standfirst, which prompted Cockburn to spit out his double-roast espresso. ‘While it made mistakes, there is little evidence that the WHO is responsible for the disasters that have unfolded in Europe and then the United States.’

The article offers a textbook case of missing the forest for the trees. The Times repeatedly allows supporters of the WHO to make excuses for its litany of failures during the early outbreak, such as failing to label COVID-19 a global health crisis and infamously tweeting on January 14 that the virus could not be spread through human-to-human transmission. WHO advocates admit that the organization was too trusting of China, but don’t mention that the WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus accused Trump of potentially creating ‘more bodybags’ after the president criticized China for lying about its number of cases and deaths as well as allowing people to travel outside of the country after it became clear the outbreak was not contained. Tedros has also praised China’s ‘transparency’. If the WHO was duped by China, wouldn’t they acknowledge that Trump was calling the CCP out for spreading misinformation? Alas, it appears not. And the Times doesn’t even bother to consider why.

To: textsitefeedback@npr.org
Subject: NPR article on glowing squid

https://text.npr.org/s.php?sId=820707276

Why does this article not mention migrant workers, racism, or sexism? Surely there must be some way to work those in. Maybe the squid are racist? They come in varying colors after all.

Please, be more consistent. NPR has a nearly 100% record of including these issues in all of its reporting. With just a little more effort, it could be 100%.

Patrick

Patrick why bother, I gave up on NPR 100% when Trump got elected.
They were the only thing I listened to in the car. They have always been Liberal bias, and I didn't listen to them to hear the choir preach to me.
I used to listen to them, because by following NPR, no matter how creepy, gay, or in the gutter they went. They were the bellwether for legislation that Democrats in Washington was going to push next. One month NPR is gushing over 8 year old drag queens, and middle age Liberal Men's right to exploit them and groom them for that lifestyle.
The next month some Fucked up Gay Commie Congress fucker, is pushing their right to do so, while labeling who ever is repulsed by it, a White Nationalist, which literally means Hitler.

It was painful to listen to, but it was necessary for my own sanity, so that I knew where this stupid shit coming out of Washington is coming from. AOC types aren't that criminally dynamic, this shit was coming from tax funded Pros, a partisan political think tank posing as a Tax funded Radio station.

But through out the 2016 election cycle, they changed the only thing they reported was misinformation on Trump and his supporters.
They drove me away from listening to NPR to listening to WOID, Brian Mudd, Rush Limbaugh, and Hanity.
Now I know why Liberals hate them so much, they are the only ones telling the truth on Talk Radio.

marcus says

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Turns out we were something like the 38th country to stop flights from China. BFD.

So what are you saying? That there are 37 countries with leadership more xenophobic and anti-Chinese racist than Trump?

https://therightscoop.com/dan-crenshaw-decimates-wapos-jennifer-rubin-for-anti-trump-coronavirus-hit-piece/

Dan Crenshaw schooled Washington Post opinion columnist Jennifer Rubin today after she wrote a hit piece against Trump entitled “Trump’s inaction has a staggering toll” ...

STOP. REWRITING. HISTORY.

Instead of attempting to spin the public into a hateful, frightened frenzy, let’s try reporting some facts with the correct context. ...

On March 3rd, the day after you claim Trump should have shut our economy down, this is how the WHO downplayed the virus:

“COVID-19 spreads less efficiently than flu, transmission does not appear to be driven by people who are not sick” ...

Would the America public really have accepted millions of jobs destroyed for a virus that had infected just 102 people by March 2? Especially considering Italy would not lock down until March 10th, Spain on March 14th, and the UK on March 23?

A bit of context is in order here. ...

Not sure where the magic COVID-19 testing switch is. The truth is that long-standing regulations - in place for decades - prevented us from doing so.

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/mar/23/dan-crenshaw/did-fda-regulations-slow-testing-coronavirus/

First, you argue that we should have shut down the economy weeks before we did. Then, you argue that the shut down, resulting job loss, and economic devastation are his fault too.

Which is it? You can’t have it both ways. ...


Your analysis makes it seem like our government deliberately decided not to buy more PPE. The truth is there was a global production shortage when China began stopping exports, and demand soared. This is still happening. ...

When it’s all said and done, this bad-faith analysis isn’t fact-based and lacks important context. Hating Trump is not an excuse for lazy argumentation and emotional reasoning.

Now, more than ever, we need critical thinking and productive deliberation.

OK, Crenshaw for president after Trump finishes his second term.

Excellent videos from Crenshaw:

https://therightscoop.com/watch-dan-crenshaw-releases-fantastic-video-debunking-the-lefts-covid-19-narrative/

https://thefederalist.com/2020/04/17/what-the-msm-wont-tell-you-about-democrats-voter-suppression-in-the-wisconsin-election/

On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher criticized media coverage of the coronavirus by stating that “nonstop gloom and doom … gives Trump the chance to play the optimist, and optimists tend to win American elections.” ...

He added, “Everyone knows Corona is no walk in the park. Because you literally can’t walk in the park. But at some point, the daily drumbeat of depression and terror veers into panic porn.” And “you don’t have to put hot sauce on a jalapeno.”

Maher concluded, “We need the news to calm down and treat us like adults. Trump calls you fake news, don’t make him be right.”

Too late. Trump is right, the news is fake.

BIG IF TRUE.

Let's see if he's right.

(cross posted from another thread because it's a classic example of media spin to make any good news about Trump look bad)

https://www.wsj.com/articles/hydroxychloroquine-and-other-autoimmune-drugs-dont-fully-protect-against-coronavirus-early-data-suggest-11587222001 (paywall!)

Hydroxychloroquine and Other Autoimmune Drugs Don’t Fully Protect Against Coronavirus, Early Data Suggest

Dozens of people taking hydroxychloroquine and other treatments for chronic rheumatologic diseases have become infected with Covid-19, according to an analysis of emerging data that is a sign the drugs may not protect people from the new coronavirus.

More than five dozen people with chronic ailments like lupus and rheumatoid arthritis were taking medications such as hydroxychloroquine before being diagnosed with the coronavirus, according to data compiled by the Global Rheumatology Alliance, a coalition of rheumatologists,...

Damn, is that some impressive negative spin or what? Doesn't "Fully" protect.

So that means it does protect to some degree. Why isn't that the title?

Doesn't "Fully" protect.

Neither does a vaccine "fully" protect. In fact, a flu vaccine is only about 1/3 effective. So I guess the author of "Hydroxychloroquine and Other Autoimmune Drugs Don’t Fully Protect Against Coronavirus, Early Data Suggest" would condemn vaccines as well.