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American journalism is officially dead. "Reporters" are now activists, overtly biased.


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2021 Apr 10, 10:02pm   89,763 views  1,081 comments

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/the-cbs-scandal-you-may-have-missed-because-of-the-60-minutes-hit-job-on-ron-desantis/ar-BB1ftBVU

The CBS scandal you may have missed because of the 60 Minutes hit job on Ron DeSantis

The news network has published an article advising major companies on ways to "fight" Republican-backed voting laws. The report’s original headline read, “3 ways companies can help fight Georgia's restrictive new voting law.” Naturally, the story itself contains several tips on how businesses can protest Georgia-style legislation.

This is not journalism. This is political advocacy, and it’s all done in service of a traditional beneficiary of the press’s ethical lapses.

Imagine, for a moment, if one of the three major networks published a story advising businesses on how to “fight” ultra-permissive abortion laws. It’d be unthinkable. Yet, here, is CBS doing exactly that sort of politicking, but for bills such as the one passed recently in Georgia.

Perhaps realizing it had strayed headfirst into political advocacy, CBS amended the report’s headline eventually, softening its tone into something decidedly less partisan.

The headline as it appears online now reads, “Activists are calling on big companies to challenge new voting laws. Here's what they're asking for.”

In a way, this is actually worse than the original. At least in the original, CBS had the guts to declare its allegiance outright. The amended version chooses instead to hide behind “activists” to push an obvious political position.

As for the report itself, it remains unchanged. It still outlines various ways in which businesses can “fight” voting laws championed by Republican legislatures. It is still just as partisan as the day it first published.

“Do not donate," the report recommends. "Activists said companies should immediately stop making donations to Barry Fleming and Michael Dugan, the Georgia Republicans who co-sponsored the voting changes."

It continues, naming and shaming major businesses such as Delta and Home Depot for donating to Fleming and Dugan.

"Ending political donations is one of the most immediately impactful steps a company can take to sway lawmakers," the article reads.

The article also says companies can help fight Georgia-style voting laws by producing ads that "help stamp out efforts nationwide to pass voting laws similar to Georgia's," including in Arizona and Texas.

"Activists say it isn't enough for companies to issue tepid public statements in defense of voting rights," the CBS report reads. "Instead, companies should launch television and social media ads that oppose efforts in Georgia, Arizona, Texas and other states considering voter restrictions."

Companies, the story continues, can also support the coercive monstrosity known as the “For the People Act."

"If passed,” the CBS report reads, “the act would create same-day and online voter registration nationwide. It would also require states to overhaul their registration systems. The act seeks to expand absentee voting, limit the states' ability to remove people from voter rolls, increase federal funds for election security and reform the redistricting process.”

Though the CBS article is several days old, you likely missed it amid the network’s other major ethical lapse, when it promoted the lie that Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis rewarded a grocery chain with an “exclusive” deal to distribute coronavirus vaccines as part of a “pay for play” scheme involving political contributions.

If you missed all of this voting law boycott business when it happened, you can be forgiven. After all, CBS’s “report” on DeSantis is possibly the worst political hit job since Dan Rather went on-air with forgeries of former President George W. Bush's National Guard service record.

It’s obviously not a great situation when one media scandal is obscured by a concurrent scandal and all by the same newsroom. If there are adults still left at CBS, now would be a good time to take back control.


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626   Patrick   2022 Nov 26, 11:28am  

Twitter now seems to be adding the ability for the public to summarize the bullshit in corporate media stories:

https://nitter.pussthecat.org/Not_the_Bee/status/1595994522886234112





This is very good!

Dark6Light
@Engineer_Psych
Nov 25
Replying to @michaelmalice
Community notes is answering all the basic questions I have when I read stories from the mainstream media
631   HeadSet   2022 Nov 29, 8:43am  

This is the Associated Press published in newspapers nationwide article about the Buffalo shooting:



No MSM article anywhere describes the Walmart shooter as Black. At best, they put a picture a few days later on an interior page.
632   Patrick   2022 Nov 30, 10:42am  

https://nitter.pussthecat.org/DailyCaller/status/1597762397921738752#m


Daily Caller
@DailyCaller
17h
Tucker Carlson: "Xi Jinping sent tanks into a major city last night in order to put down protests...Virtually no American media outlets even acknowledged that happened...Could it be that the American news media is covering for the government of China?
633   Patrick   2022 Dec 3, 5:34pm  



Except they weren't vile or baseless at all.

They were the truth, and journalists suppressed the truth to favor the party of corruption and chaos.
638   Patrick   2022 Dec 6, 10:43am  


Bill Brasky
@Polkameister
16h
Canadian National media 4 day news story summary:

Alberta Sovereignty Act - 17
Elon Musk Twitter expose of MSN Biden laptop fraud - 0
Blacklock's Media being banned from Ottawa PPG? - 0
Anti-Danielle Smith stories in general - 11
Polling supports invoking Emergency Act - 7
643   stereotomy   2022 Dec 9, 8:22am  

Patrick says

https://sinfest.xyz/





Patreon has banned him - I guess he's hitting too close to the mark.

https://nitter.pussthecat.org/TatsuyaIshida9

645   Patrick   2022 Dec 13, 9:54am  





They are not conservative. They are just SANE. They formerly were just like other journalists, but returned to reality. From the far left, that looks conservative.
649   richwicks   2022 Dec 17, 12:43pm  

Patrick says

https://babylonbee.com/news/government-warns-that-with-elon-owning-twitter-they-will-only-control-97-of-the-media




I would strongly caution against people expecting Elon Musk, the world's BEST government welfare whore (hands down), expecting him to allow true free speech.

There's several people I follow, and ALL of them are banned from Twitter. ONE thinks he may have been unbanned. When they are all unbanned, then I will give him the benefit of doubt.
653   Patrick   2022 Dec 19, 10:08am  

https://babylonbee.com/news/journalists-warn-of-frightening-trend-where-rules-apply-to-them




"It's not fair that we're being treated the same as other people," sobbed Washington Post reporter Taylor Lorenz. "I'm literally shaking with rage."

The troubling trend came to a head this past week as several journalists who had endangered a man's life were then made to endure a Twitter suspension, just like any other person. "It is absolutely unacceptable to silence the press like this," said Taylor Lorenz, still sobbing. "We journalists are supposed to be able to invade other people's privacy and put their lives at risk, while no one is allowed to do the same thing to us. I am deeply troubled by the sudden expectation for the press to follow the same rules as any common citizen."

While journalists have repeatedly expressed concern over their loss of recognition as a source of truth, having to now suffer the consequences of their own actions has confirmed their deepest fears. "This is exactly like the Kristallnaacht, the opening salvo of the Holocaust," cried Taylor Lorenz, grabbing a third box of tissues. "The government, led by Elon Musk, has handed me a one-week Twitter suspension merely for stalking people like prey. He might as well be firing up the gas chambers."

At publishing time, sources report that Taylor Lorenz had continued sobbing, drenching her 55th birthday cake with tears.

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