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Provable lies, distortions, and omissions on NPR and in the NY Times


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2020 Apr 7, 5:19pm   8,525 views  176 comments

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Perhaps there should be a daily counter-propaganda "newspaper" online dedicated solely to exposing the daily lies, distortions, and omissions on NPR and in the NY Times and similar globalist propaganda outlets.

For each lie, distortion, and omission, there should be:

1. an archived quote with a screenshot or transcript in the case of NPR
2. proof of the lie, distortion, or omission with references others can check
3. an explanation of how the lies, distortions, and omission further the globalist agenda of impoverishing US citizens by outsourcing their jobs and insourcing illegals

It would require dedicated people working full time, because the mainstream media produces lies, distortions, and omissions at such a great rate. So funding is an issue, but perhaps could be covered by advertising, donations, and subscriptions.

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69   rigidmember   2020 Apr 16, 9:39am  

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.
71   Tenpoundbass   2020 Apr 16, 9:55am  

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.
72   Patrick   2020 Apr 16, 10:48pm  

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.
73   marcus   2020 Apr 16, 10:51pm  

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Turns out we were something like the 38th country to stop flights from China. BFD.
74   WookieMan   2020 Apr 16, 10:59pm  

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.
75   Patrick   2020 Apr 17, 8:30am  

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.
76   Patrick   2020 Apr 17, 8:40am  

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
77   Tenpoundbass   2020 Apr 17, 8:54am  

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.
78   HeadSet   2020 Apr 17, 1:39pm  

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?
79   Patrick   2020 Apr 17, 8:32pm  

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.
83   Patrick   2020 Apr 19, 12:11am  

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.
84   MisdemeanorRebel   2020 Apr 20, 7:51pm  

BIG IF TRUE.

85   Patrick   2020 Apr 20, 9:20pm  



Let's see if he's right.
86   Patrick   2020 Apr 20, 9:27pm  

(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?
87   HeadSet   2020 Apr 21, 7:21am  

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.
88   WookieMan   2020 Apr 21, 7:34am  

HeadSet says
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.

Bingo!!! This isn't going away as a virus. It will probably be with us for decades regardless of a vaccine. A good amount of people pass because of the flu, HAVE been vaccinated. We're at the death count of the average flu roughly right now WITHOUT a vaccine that wouldl likely be 30-40% effective. There's no silver bullet here, it's a god damn virus... nature and all that (maybe manufactured).

We're at the point in this where people are asking a POTUS to stop a fucking hurricane(s) as a weather event. I hope people are seeing how retarded they sound.... The people all negative on this are asking the equivalent of asking one human to stop a hurricane and pretend like that is even possible. Stupidity has no bounds at this point. Open. The. Fuck. UP.
89   theoakman   2020 Apr 21, 7:48am  

Apparently the new talking point is that the protestors should become victims of Darwinism. If this were Ebola, they might have a point. A biology teacher (yes a high school bio teacher) that I used to work with posted a meme that says:

"If you don't want to quarantine, that's ok" -Charles Darwin

Now...this is stupid on many levels. Given that the fatality rate among people below age 20 is essentially zero...this has nothing to do with survival. I endanger myself more commuting to work everyday in New Jersey down Rt 78 where I've been run off the road at 80 mph. The fatality rate doesn't rise much going all the way up to age 60. And...given that we are finding a ton of evidence of how many people are asymptomatic....those fatality rates are dramatically decreasing. Young people protesting has nothing to do with Darwinism and this is a classic example of a left leaning high school biology teacher not being able to even apply a simple concept that they are paid to teach. The only thing Darwin would say is that this virus does take out the weak and unhealthy.

Darwin might argue that we allow this to run through the population as quickly as possible to establish herd immunity prior to it mutating.



These types of messages should be targeted a few people....overweight people, people with heart disease, blood pressure, or diabetes. And elderly.

This virus is not super deadly. The only reason I am in support of this temporary lockdown is because the virus is rapidly transmissive and it runs through us very fast and reaches those that are susceptible. That being said...our current course is completely unsustainable economically and we will basically have the summer (where transmission is likely to decrease) to get our asses in gear. People will have to resume work with masks on. Susceptible population will have to shelter in place. Social distancing should still be practiced. And once we can vaccinate this (which I believe will be by the winter), this is just going to be another virus on the list.

People keep saying "this is not like the flu". All indicators are, it is no more deadly. They can't put together that the flu would do the same thing if we didn't have any immunity or vaccinations. They might be more correct in saying that the effect on society and danger exceeds that of the flu right now.
91   Patrick   2020 Apr 24, 8:38am  

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2020/03/30/twitter-removes-jair-bolsonaros-tweets-about-chinese-virus/

Twitter took down two tweets from Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, citing its policy against misinformation related to the Chinese coronavirus, despite refusing to take down misinformation from Chinese officials about the virus last week.

The deleted videos consist of videos of Bolsonaro discussing the Chinese virus with Brazilian citizens, emphasizing the need to balance concern about the pandemic with economic reality. ...

Responding to a request for comment, a Twitter spokeswoman cited the platform’s new rules against misinformation, which Breitbart News reported on earlier this month. According to the spokeswoman, the rules cover content that “could be against public health information provided by official sources and could put people at greater risk of transmitting COVID-19.”

However, as Breitbart News reported last week, Twitter has not clamped down on misinformation about the virus posted by Chinese officials, even after U.S. lawmakers have brought it to their attention.
92   MisdemeanorRebel   2020 Apr 24, 8:41am  

Great example of a Chinese Propaganda piece:

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/western-relations-with-china-after-covid19-by-chris-patten-2020-04

Handwave away China concerns as long term, auxiliary concerns, but blame Trump.
93   MisdemeanorRebel   2020 Apr 24, 8:44am  



All of China has total deaths half that of just the Madrid Area of Spain? BULLSHIT.

94   CBOEtrader   2020 Apr 24, 8:55am  

death by bullet to the head is NOT corona virus.
96   marcus   2020 Apr 25, 12:07am  

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I doubt it, but I understand the cult members such as Adams wanting to defend their loyalty to great leader.

Closer to the truth :

97   Patrick   2020 Apr 25, 11:48am  

What primarily drives support for Trump is the relentless hate for Trump in the press regardless of what he does.

To effectively oppose Trump instead of increasing and hardening support for him, it would help tremendously to at least try to look impartial and not driven purely by irrational implacable hatred.

It's kinda basic psychology, but all the Trump haters overlook it because they are literally whacking off to hate every day. They are addicted to their daily masturbatory hate. And this is a huge benefit to Trump, who looks much better with this kind of nutty opposition than he would otherwise.
98   marcus   2020 Apr 25, 12:00pm  

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Patrick says
It's kinda basic psychology, but all the Trump haters overlook it because they are literally whacking off to hate every day


I think you've got it backwards as to where the really toxic hate lives in all of this. It's not like this country wasn't politically polarized before 2016. And it's not as if Trump Cultists didn't vote for a political figure that was 100% guaranteed to take us toward being more polarized. Many centrists and liberals despise Trump for many reasons that were very clear before he was even elected (losing the popular vote).

The idea that Trump Cultists would be less forgiving of everything Trump if their political enemies weren't constantly reminding them of who he is, what he says and what he does? Give me a break. The Trump Cultists would be just as much of a cult of personality, and they would be would be repeating the same nonsense about how great of a President he is 24/7. Some people just have too much pride.

Look, I get it. Trump Cultists have their reasons for undying loyalty to Trump.

They voted for Trump and they want to be right.

Isn't that kinda basic psychology ?
99   Patrick   2020 Apr 25, 12:09pm  

@marcus Please try to keep it about the topic and not about any other user personally.

The point is that the rabidly insane levels of hate for Trump actually garner him a lot of support.

Is that true? That's what we should be debating.

We want the same things, more or less, but we disagree on how to get there, that's all.
100   Patrick   2020 Apr 25, 12:15pm  

Tim, Please try to keep it about the topic and not about any other user personally.

Does the hate for Trump increase his support or not?
101   marcus   2020 Apr 25, 12:30pm  

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Patrick says
@marcus Please try to keep it about the topic and not about any other user personally.


Patrick says
but all the Trump haters overlook it because they are literally whacking off to hate every day. They are addicted to their daily masturbatory hate.



Okay, deal. You're not talking about me here, and I'm not talking about you when I say Trump cultists above. Or am I ?
102   Onvacation   2020 Apr 25, 12:31pm  

Tim Aurora says
What you consider as hate is disdain for his childish and stupid behavior.

No. it's hate.
103   mell   2020 Apr 25, 12:31pm  

Tim Aurora says
@Patrick. It's your prerogative to support Trump or any other schmuck. What you consider as hate is disdain for his childish and stupid behavior. and his policies ( or which we differ a lot)

Patrick says
@marcus What primarily drives support for Trump is the relentless hate for Trump in the press regardless of what he does.


Disdain is everyone's prerogative, but would you rather take the bus with a bus driver you have disdain for due to his lack of intellect or class in your pov but who drives pretty well, or take the bus with an intellectual class act who doesn't have a driver's license? The policies matter not whether Trump could be your best buddy or not.
104   mell   2020 Apr 25, 12:33pm  

Furthermore more I'd argue despite his brash behavior sometimes and overachiever talk Trump is still more honest that the mainstream cabal on both sides of the aisle. I'd take an honest simpleton over a deceiving politician who is polished on the outside anytime.
105   marcus   2020 Apr 25, 12:39pm  

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I fixed it Patrick.
106   Patrick   2020 Apr 25, 12:58pm  

marcus says
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I fixed it Patrick.


Thank you @marcus

Sorry, trying to fix the moderation system to prevent people from easily evading it. It had everything new by you flagged for a few minutes, but shouldn't do that anymore.
107   marcus   2020 Apr 25, 1:00pm  

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So how do you like 105 and 109 now ?
108   Patrick   2020 Apr 25, 1:03pm  

marcus says
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So how do you like 105 and 109 now ?


Yes, @marcus that is better, thanks.

Seriously, just trying to keep it about points we all have an interest in debating, and not about the other users personally.

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