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


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2021 Apr 10, 10:02pm   129,476 views  1,306 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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790   Patrick   2023 Jun 26, 11:34pm  

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/really-bad-optics-monday-june-26?publication_id=463409&post_id=131159728&isFreemail=true


In the early hours on Saturday, government-affiliated reporters labeled the Wagnerian dustup a Russian “Civil War.” The Atlantic ran one of my favorites of the headlines, which by no means was the only one:




Russia didn’t slide into Civil War very far! ...

The New York Times, which on Saturday ran no fewer than SEVEN separate top-of-fold stories celebrating Putin’s imminent fall, any second now, was reluctantly forced by the rough pace of current events to display a much more muted tone this morning:




Uh oh. I guess the Weekend Civil War didn’t really help Ukraine that much. The Times’ sub-headline, above, glumly admitted, “The Ukrainian Army is encountering an array of challenges.” An array! An “array of challenges” is even worse than just regular challenges.

If the Times admitted THAT, you know it’s got to be BAD. The best news that diligent Times reporters could scrape together was the alliterative headline suggesting “Ukraine COULD Capitalize on Chaos,” maybe, who knows, plus a 12-minute audio podcast where some talking head opined about “How the Wagner revolt challenges Putin’s power.”

But does it, though?

Now begins the great face-saving, the re-spinning, the narrative un-weaving, the shucking-and-jiving by all the corporate media reporters and expert shills who on Saturday ran with hot takes that the situation in Russia was REALLY SERIOUS and Putin was teetering on the brink of finally being deposed by the brave, democracy-loving, freedom-fighting Wagner forces (freedom fighters who were long labeled as war criminals, as of Thursday afternoon at least, but never mind, they would again be war criminals by late Sunday afternoon). ...

So, we’ll keep waiting to find some clarity, and in the meanwhile enjoy corporate media mocking itself.
791   Patrick   2023 Jun 27, 10:47am  

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/media-meltdown-tuesday-june-27-2023?publication_id=463409&post_id=131401181&isFreemail=true


Our media is a laughingstock. You literally can’t believe anything they say these days. I feel like we should apologize to the Russians for mocking their Soviet-era newspaper ‘Pravda’ back in the day. Now we know what it feels like.

Russian President Putin gave a speech yesterday about the uprising. As usual it was credible and coherent. Unlike someone else’s speeches, but I digress. I’ll link it (it’s not too long), not because I “love Putin” but because our corporate media won’t print a single word.

http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/71528

Honestly, it baffles me that, after building Putin up into the ONE REASON for this entire conflict, our media proceeds to black out everything the man has to say about it. How can they possibly justify that? If everything Putin says is a lie, expose him as a liar every time he talks. The media’s ONE JOB is to inform us about newsworthy events, not carefully curate the information we are exposed to so that we won’t think wrong.

It’s a time of war and the government-controlled media is deliberately deceiving us. That’s arguably treason. ...

I have a modest proposal. How about this? How about we end the era of the state secret. Maybe we need to decide, once and for all, that a huge undercover secret government military-industrial apparatus is antithetical to a ‘small-R’ republican form of government.

Look at it this way — we gave it a solid try, but it didn’t work out. Let’s move on.
792   Patrick   2023 Jun 27, 10:53am  

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/media-meltdown-tuesday-june-27-2023?publication_id=463409&post_id=131401181&isFreemail=true


Speaking of western intelligence involvement, I haven’t had the time to quite work this up yet, but dots are coalescing. I find very interesting the collective timing of the massive rush Saturday-morning rush by corporate media to label the Wagner uprising a “Civil War.” Nearly every corporate media outlet had at least one long-form piece ready Saturday morning when events had unfolded in Russia over Friday night.

Including outlets that don’t usually report breaking news, like The Atlantic magazine. How was all of that possible without outside coordination?

Remember, the New York Times had no fewer than SEVEN articles ready to go first thing Saturday morning, all written by different reporters. Then yesterday we found out that our intelligence agencies briefed Congress earlier in the week about the expected uprising.

The CIA and Congress knew about Wagner ahead of time. Which means corporate media knew ahead of time.

They wrote the Russian Civil War narrative AHEAD OF TIME.

It sure looks to me like Saturday morning’s media blitz was a CIA psyop on the American people. The goal perhaps was to help manufacture a color revolution in Russia on the strength of Prigozhin’s popularity, or at least, what the intelligence agencies believed about his popularity.

Boy, were they wrong. Nobody cares about Prigozhin.

I wonder what else we’ll discover going forward.
793   Patrick   2023 Jun 27, 4:59pm  

https://notthebee.com/article/actor-jim-caviezel-slams-the-mainstream-media-for-their-lies-about-trump-and-covering-up-hunter-bidens-crimes


The way thigns are gonna be done now- it's gonna be changed from this point on. There's gonna be a new direction in this country.

People aren't buying the media like they used to. Because they, you know, the stuff that happened on Hunter Biden laptop. Okay. Two years you told us not true. Okay, I believe you, you're the media. Then it's true.

And then for 7 years we learned that Donald Trump is a Russian spy. Well, that's wrong. Thank you media for telling us that. Durham report drops, he's not a Russian spy. ...

80% that you told us is all false. So the public is all going, "No, you don't have the power you used to."
796   richwicks   2023 Jun 30, 2:40am  

Patrick says


Our media is a laughingstock. You literally can’t believe anything they say these days. I feel like we should apologize to the Russians for mocking their Soviet-era newspaper ‘Pravda’ back in the day. Now we know what it feels like.


I hope you realize that everything that is called "reliable sources" is propaganda.

Patrick says


80% that you told us is all false. So the public is all going, "No, you don't have the power you used to."


It's higher than 80%. No information is given out by corporate media other than maybe sports scores or possibly the weather, and they even lie about that. Canada is burning because of "climate change", they say - it's arson. What do "reliable sources" report that is true? Name some. Think carefully about this. They are lying about everything from foreign policy to the reason for protests.
797   DOGEWontAmountToShit   2023 Jun 30, 7:30pm  

Patrick says






The internet has eclipsed TV, I think.
798   Patrick   2023 Jun 30, 7:41pm  

There's a big difference:

TV is strictly one way, from the CIA to you.

The internet at least has the potential of being multi-directional, where random individuals can communicate with each other, just like we are doing now.

But yes, Google, Facebook, and Twitter (even now) are being used as deadly weapons against humanity.
801   Patrick   2023 Jul 7, 3:52pm  

https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/kitten-corner-debunking-the-debunkers


jeepers you guys, it looks like the new york times is still saying that “covid-19 vaccines do not prevent transmission of the disease” is “debunked claims from vaccine skeptics!”




...




but jeez i hope nobody tells the CDC, because it seems like probably that would hurt their feelings…



804   richwicks   2023 Jul 8, 11:19pm  

Trollhole says


The internet has eclipsed TV, I think.


Internet allows us to learn, just about anything, television doesn't.

Philo Farnsworth invented the television expecting it to be an educational tool. He saw it as a failure to such an extent that when his son asked him why they didn't have one, he supposedly said:

There's nothing on it worthwhile, and we're not going to watch it in this household, and I don't want it in your intellectual diet.


He was a true genius, it's a pity he died in 1971. I doubt he even know ARPANet was invented. The Internet can be as bad as television, but ONLY as bad. It can't be worse, provided it's 2 way. Anything you encounter which is one way, is just the same old shit, if you can't comment, and you can't learn from other independent people, it's worthless.

Commenting is the best thing ever. I learned more about the world from individual people commenting on news articles than I could have ever learned just reading news articles. People will point out bullshit in a second when they see it.
810   HeadSet   2023 Jul 18, 5:41pm  

Patrick says






Yep, as warned by Lewis Carol long ago:


811   Patrick   2023 Jul 20, 8:08am  

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/triple-standards-wednesday-july-19?publication_id=463409&post_id=135273232&isFreemail=true


Narrative alert! Bloomberg ran a narrative-baking story yesterday deceptively headlined, “US Suspends Wuhan Institute Funds Over Covid Stonewalling.” ...

Bloomberg also reported that HHS’s Office of Inspector General conducted an audit earlier this year that determined the NIH failed to effectively monitor its awards and subawards, harming the agency’s “ability to understand the nature of research conducted and identify problem areas.” In other words, Bloomberg is setting up an excuse for NIH to “not know” what was going on with the money it gave Wuhan.

See? The NIH wasn’t deliberately funding gain-of-function research. They just trusted the Wuhan lab and forgot to check what it was using the money for.

In other words, the NIH is admitting to the lesser crime of negligence, rather than of being up to its filthy neck in gain-of-function research and being nabbed in a Chinese biolab bathroom with its pants down.

This was a narrative-crafting article. Bloomberg is helping stitch together a fairytale about how the virus leaked from a shoddily-run lab. It was negligence all around, just one of those things. The conclusion will be that we need to tighten up the procedures and fund the agencies even more so that they can do their jobs properly.
813   Patrick   2023 Jul 22, 10:49am  

https://notthebee.com/article/did-you-hear-about-the-officer-who-stopped-a-muslim-terrorist-from-shooting-up-a-street-fair-in-fargo-this-week


Did you hear about the officer who stopped a heavily-armed man named Mohamad from shooting up a street fair in Fargo last week?

Did you hear about the shooting in North Dakota? No? Why not?

Don't we have national news corporations?

821   Patrick   2023 Jul 29, 3:51pm  

https://vigilantfox.substack.com/p/rfk-jr-exposes-big-pharmas-control


RFK Jr. Exposes Big Pharma’s Control Over the TV News

There are only two countries that allow pharma ads on TV: one is the United States, and the other is New Zealand.

“75% of the advertising revenues in the nightly news come from pharmaceutical companies,” reported Kennedy.

Kennedy produced a documentary about vaccines and presented it to Fox News. Then Fox News executive Roger Ailes told Kennedy, “This is like a red line for us.” “If one of my hosts, like Cavuto or Sean, allowed you on to talk about this issue, I would have to fire them.” ...

“Anderson Cooper is getting a $13-million-a-year salary. But if you actually look at the revenues, probably 70 or 80% of that is coming from Pfizer,” commented Kennedy.

“So, who is he really working for? Is he working for the public interest? I don’t think so. And it’s not that Pfizer is writing his scripts and dictating stuff, but he knows where the boundaries are of what he can and cannot say.”

This interview was censored and taken down by YouTube, but you can still watch it here:

https://twitter.com/VigilantFox/status/1685397533315526656
826   Patrick   2023 Aug 2, 12:57pm  

https://www.euphoricrecall.net/p/32-ideas-for-32-years?publication_id=323684&post_id=135485126&isFreemail=true


What modern journalism has become. The internet’s digital tsunami of information and emancipation of authorship shattered the traditional newspaper business model and the elite-controlled dispensation that had long endowed newsrooms with a sacrosanct authority as a gatekeeper to knowledge with a monopoly over dissemination and agenda-setting. To survive, the mainstream media has pivoted from journalism to tribalism; the goal isn’t to inform readers, it’s to confirm what they already believe.

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