patrick.net

May the best liar win.

Link doesn't work, already removed?

This is why a recent ruling in the Project Veritas v NY Times libel lawsuit is extremely important.

Slimes demanded the case be thrown out because the lies it printed were the opinions of the reporters, not factual statements declared by the Slimes.

Judge said, "Then why wasn't this article identified as an op-ed instead of being published as a news report?"

To you non-lawyers: THIS is a big deal as far as legal precedence is concerned, believe it or not.

Slimes lawyers were shocked, couldn't answer and so judgy ruled that the lawsuit can proceed and that the Slimes DO NOT destroy any documents...esp emails that prove malicious intent towards PV in the discovery phase.

This case is a BIG DEAL...esp if the Slimes fights this all the way to SCOTUS and but they still support this ruling as a new precedent.

It is thus doubtful O'Keefe will settle this case now.

If you are asking yourself "why da fuck this wasn't the standard anyway?"...you are 100% guilty of having more common sense than all those moronic judges & justices in the past that came up with the present 'standard' that the Slimes was trying to use as a shield in this case.

This works: 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

There hasn’t been news reporting in some time. Millenials are fucking assholes birthed by even bigger assholes (boomers) and willing to cough up individual freedoms and liberties for the sake of their bullshit pseudo religions. Someone said Gen X is the last savior of the US and that is true but damn near hopeless. As the last link to our silent generation parents that lived through the depression, ww2, Korean War, and Vietnam, were apparently the only generation that has the wisdom of second hand knowledge from the past. The boomers were too self centered (IE assholes) to listen to their greatest generation parents and instead tried to dispense of the solid society built out of ww2.

Pathetic, sad, and most unfortunate.

FuckTheMainstreamMedia says

There hasn’t been news reporting in some time. Millenials are fucking assholes birthed by even bigger assholes (boomers) and willing to cough up individual freedoms and liberties for the sake of their bullshit pseudo religions. Someone said Gen X is the last savior of the US and that is true but damn near hopeless. As the last link to our silent generation parents that lived through the depression, ww2, Korean War, and Vietnam, were apparently the only generation that has the wisdom of second hand knowledge from the past. The boomers were too self centered (IE assholes) to listen to their greatest generation parents and instead tried to dispense of the solid society built out of ww2.

Pathetic, sad, and most unfortunate.

A bit dark but lots of truth in there ;)

mell says

This works: 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

@mell Thanks, corrected above.

FuckTheMainstreamMedia says

There hasn’t been news reporting in some time. Millenials are fucking assholes birthed by even bigger assholes (boomers) and willing to cough up individual freedoms and liberties for the sake of their bullshit pseudo religions. Someone said Gen X is the last savior of the US and that is true but damn near hopeless. As the last link to our silent generation parents that lived through the depression, ww2, Korean War, and Vietnam, were apparently the only generation that has the wisdom of second hand knowledge from the past. The boomers were too self centered (IE assholes) to listen to their greatest generation parents and instead tried to dispense of the solid society built out of ww2.

Pathetic, sad, and most unfortunate.

I'm starting to believe the same thing. So much of what was "normal life" back in the day is met with blank stares (a.k.a. is this just the crazy oldster spouting off?) when I try to explain what this country was like when it was still (at least 50%) by the people and for the people.

We are living through not the end, but the beginning of the end. The end will see our grandchildren or great-grandchildren suffer the full consequences.

I had the pleasure of meeting a lot of the Greatest as a Teenager in Florida. 90% had a complete positive vibe, good people. Many of their kids were assholes. Some of the Silents were damned good but again, so few of them relative to the generation before and after them, like Gen X.

A lot of those Greatest Generation people had a really hard time when they were young.

I was reading Jackie Gleason's bio, and damn, his father burned all the pictures of himself and left, then his mother got a large carbuncle which Jackie lanced, but then his mother got septicemia and died. He was homeless for a bit before getting into standup comedy.

They're all like that: Kirk Douglas (son of a rag dealer), Charles Bronson (Coal Miner at 10 years old), etc.

Really amazing that these people grew up in absolute shit conditions, turned out better than many a spoiled brat.

Appreciation is the key difference.

Enervating luxuries, my man, enervating luxuries.

The idea about the Fremen from Dune being forced to grow up in the Deep Desert after Mau'dib brings water is on to something. Raise teens in the wilds chopping wood and shit, no electric from 12 until 18.

stereotomy says

We are living through not the end, but the beginning of the end. The end will see our grandchildren or great-grandchildren suffer the full consequences.

It is hard to say exactly when the beginning of the end started but normalization of trade with Communist China began in 1980. This seems like the beginning of the end for American manufacturing, and a country dependent on imports is a dependent country.

Don’t worry about your great grandchildren, the current generation won’t recognize their own country in a decades time. But the millennials probably will mostly cheer for the globalists new world order great reset tyranny.

PeopleUnited says

This seems like the beginning of the end for American manufacturing, and a country dependent on imports is a dependent country.

It started in the early 1970s with the fall of the Bretton Woods standard and the signing of the first globalist trade treaties like GATT.

MisdemeanorRebel says

They're all like that: Kirk Douglas (son of a rag dealer), Charles Bronson (Coal Miner at 10 years old), etc.

Really amazing that these people grew up in absolute shit conditions, turned out better than many a spoiled brat.

Appreciation is the key difference.

Enervating luxuries, my man, enervating luxuries.

The idea about the Fremen from Dune being forced to grow up in the Deep Desert after Mau'dib brings water is on to something. Raise teens in the wilds chopping wood and shit, no electric from 12 until 18.

Kirk Douglas would be a Republican today.

https://youtu.be/JscInCk56YY

MisdemeanorRebel says

I had the pleasure of meeting a lot of the Greatest as a Teenager in Florida. 90% had a complete positive vibe, good people. Many of their kids were assholes. Some of the Silents were damned good but again, so few of them relative to the generation before and after them, like Gen X.

It kills me. I had so much respect for my great aunts and uncles. I loved talking to them and hearing what they had to say. I only know one millennial that has the same level of curiousity. It’s sad and I’ll go as far as to say, wrong. It’s funny...on a forum related to a hobby I pursue, there’s a guy I’ve interacted with over the past few years but only with hobby related stuff. Turns out he moved away from California about 5-6 years ago. He’s 8 years older than me putting him right on the intersection of the boomers and Gen x. He essentially had the same upbringing as I did and in similar suburbs of LA. And one of his first statements as to why he left California is because it’s not at all the same place he grew up in. This guy who I literally knew nothing about except that we engage in the same hobby....we have the exact same life experience and thoughts. And if wager were not the only ones.

The realization that the US mainstream media is corrupt was not a pleasant one. I’d be much happier with a strait forward media that reported the facts and events. The only thing I think I can do about it is rant about how dishonest they are. It’s bad enough that a very left leaning friend complained about a couple things Newsom did and also complained about our new DA, the extraordinarily evil George Gascon. She actually posted on social media about a couple news articles that were related that she thought was bs. She also didn’t argue when I said there was zero chance that 85% of LA County registered voters and 90% of OC voters voted in the presidential election, and she always argues with me.
In fact, she’s stopped commenting on politics altogether other than to frequently register outrage at Newsom and the LA County Board of supervisors.

Still I’m concerned I’ll just be viewed as the crazy conspiratorial old guy. I’m still in my 40’s so maybe not that old. Maybe.

FuckTheMainstreamMedia says

The realization that the US mainstream media is corrupt was not a pleasant one.

Ha! It's a WONDERFUL one. I've known for 30 years that our media reports complete lies.

FuckTheMainstreamMedia says

Still I’m concerned I’ll just be viewed as the crazy conspiratorial old guy. I’m still in my 40’s so maybe not that old. Maybe.

What the bitch of it is, is that you're more right if you're a "conspiratorial nujob" than if you're one of the sheep in the pasture repeating the propaganda of the pigs drowning out everybody else.

You think it's a BAD thing to realize that our "news" is just propaganda? Congratulations, you realize that Santa Claus isn't real. Oh the horror, to finally be an adult.

Scott Adams
@ScottAdamsSays

Most of our major "news" stories have the coincidental effect of making at least one industry richer.
Floyd trial: News business
Virus: Pharma
China/Iran: Military/industrial complex
Climate: Green businesses

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/04/nbc-news-deceptively-edits-bodycam-footage-viewers-dont-see-knife-makiyah-bryants-hand-moments-officer-shoots-dead-video/

NBC News deceptively edited police bodycam footage so their viewers wouldn’t see the knife in 15-year-old Ma’Kiyah Bryant’s hand moments before a Columbus officer shot her dead.

NBC also deceptively edited the 911 call to omit the part where the caller says a girl was “trying to stab us.”

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NBC anchor Lester Holt began the segment by showing a picture of a smiling Ma’Kiyah Bryant to make her look innocent.

Omitting the fact that the teen was wielding a large knife and attempting to stab someone is willful deception.

Also https://populist.press/girl-in-pink-says-some-important-things-about-what-the-police-did-kills-liberal-narrative/

https://spectator.us/topic/democrats-gun-knife-fight-makhia-bryant/

Hero cop saves African-American teen from knife attack

Whew, at least one honest title about the incident.

stereotomy says

We are living through not the end, but the beginning of the end. The end will see our grandchildren or great-grandchildren suffer the full consequences.

That's why we need to fight the future.

We must remember that the internet was supposed to enhance the flow of ideas, not be censored by San Fran Freakos with Liberal Arts Degrees in Multimedia Studies.

FuckTheMainstreamMedia says

It kills me. I had so much respect for my great aunts and uncles. I loved talking to them and hearing what they had to say. I only know one millennial that has the same level of curiousity.

I loved hearing stories about WW2, the Great Depression, etc. from my grandparents.

Kids are educated with the perspective that everything old is bad (and EVIL!), everything new is good. Technology, "Social Change", etc.

Has anybody noticed that quite a few male Millennials don't know how to talk to guys? I mean shooting the breeze type shit. "I banged this broad in Bedford" "I got slammed against an old Ford at a Judas Priest concert by security and they took away our case"

Brutally Honest
@pensasoda
13h
Replying to @TomBevanRCP
In all fairness though, they were all white, so nobody cares.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9xT3LZh_TU good one regarding the media....you can fast forward to 12:00 to Rick Sanchez reporter telling how things have changed.

Patrick says

Brutally Honest
@pensasoda
13h
Replying to @TomBevanRCP
In all fairness though, they were all white, so nobody cares.

CHYNA pays well with their Walmart and Amazon Free Trade wealth.

https://greenwald.substack.com/p/cnns-new-reporter-natasha-bertrand

CNN's New "Reporter," Natasha Bertrand, is a Deranged Conspiracy Theorist and Scandal-Plagued CIA Propagandist

In the U.S. corporate media, the surest way to advance is to loyally spread lies and deceit from the U.S. security state. Bertrand is just the latest example.

The most important axiom for understanding how the U.S. corporate media functions is that there is never accountability for those who serve as propagandists for the U.S. security state. The opposite is true: the more aggressively and recklessly you spread CIA narratives or pro-war manipulation, the more rewarded you will be in that world.

The classic case is Jeffrey Goldberg, who wrote one of the most deceitful and destructive articles of his generation: a lengthy New Yorker article in May, 2002 — right as the propagandistic groundwork for the invasion of Iraq was being laid — that claimed Saddam Hussein had formed an alliance with Al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden. In February, 2003, on the eve of the invasion of Iraq, NPR host Robert Siegel devoted a long segment to this claim. When he asked Goldberg “a man named Abu Musab al-Zarqawi,” Goldberg replied: “He is one of several men who might personify a link between Iraq and al-Qaeda.”

Needless to say, nothing could generate hatred for someone among the American population — just nine months away from the 9/11 attack — more than associating them with bin Laden. Five months after Goldberg's New Yorker article, the U.S. Congress authorized the use of military force to impose regime change on Iraq; ten months later, the U.S. invaded Iraq; and by September, 2003, close to 70% of Americans believed the lie that Saddam had personally participated in the 9/11 attack. ...

Another illustrative mascot for this lucrative career path is NBC's national security correspondent Ken Dilanian. In 2014, his own former paper, The Los Angeles Times, acknowledged his "collaborative” relationship with the CIA. During his stint there, he mimicked false claims from John Brennan's CIA that no innocent people were killed from a 2012 Obama drone strike, only for human rights groups and leaked documents to prove many were.

A FOIA request produced documents published by The Intercept in 2015 that showed Dilanian submitting his "reporting” to the CIA for approval in violation of The LA Times’ own ethical guidelines and then repeating what he was told to say. But again, serving the CIA even with false "reporting” and unethical behavior is a career benefit in corporate media, not an impediment, and Dilanian rapidly fell upward after these embarrassing revelations. ...

On Monday, CNN made clear that this dynamic still drives the corporate media world. The network proudly announced that it had hired Natasha Bertrand away from Politico. In doing so, they added to their stable of former CIA operatives, NSA spies, Pentagon Generals and FBI agents a reporter who has done as much as anyone, if not more so, to advance the scripts of those agencies.

It seems amazing but It does seem to be true that the CIA is dictating what the legacy media reports in the US.

Yuri Bezmenov's KGB role was posing as a journalist when subverting foreign countries.

I would just assume the all legacy media is staffed by subversive agents at this point. Regardless of their actual nature, the constant propaganda is what turned me off of them long ago. Subjecting yourself to a constant stream of lies is no way to spend your time.

"Pravda West" is what I call them.

https://spectator.us/topic/media-horrid-hundred-days-under-biden/

Stormy Daniels, Russian collusion, Impeachment Part I, two scoops of ice cream, Russia bounties, Impeachment Part II: news consumption was sky-high. But when Trump moved back to Mar-a-Lago, he took his ratings with him. ...

The mainstream media built their entire industry around despising Donald Trump. When covering Orange Man Bad’s administration, White House correspondents transformed from formerly serious journalists into unhinged hecklers. But it is their latest transformation back to docile cheerleaders that is even more revealing. ...

This is a team effort after all! Politico actually sent out a memo to its staffers about the border specifically instructing them to ‘avoid referring to the present situation as a crisis, although we may quote others using that language while providing context’. It is stunning to think that these are the same truth-seekers and democracy defenders who just a few years ago were melting down on social media about kids in cages.

The media’s flagrant hypocrisy when covering everything from Joe’s wind-induced stair spills to his radical (and green!) policies is breathtaking. Trump called the press the enemy of the people. They didn’t have to prove him right.

However, there is a silver lining to the decline of giants like the Washington Post and the New York Times. These famed institutions, unwilling to print anything but Biden agitprop, have left a real opening in the market for actual journalism. Enter Substack. The online platform describes itself as ‘a place for independent writing. We make it simple for a writer to start a paid newsletter’.

Bari Weiss is a great example of the type of journalist who thrives on this unconfined platform. Weiss, far too free a thinker for the Gray Lady, resigned because of the Times’s hostile woke culture. Her newsletter on Substack, covering a variety of topics from anti-Semitism to Critical Race Theory, has been incredibly successful. It turns out people are willing to pay for content that isn’t constrained and controlled by ideology. ...

When Peter Alexander or Kaitlan Collins get the rare opportunity to ask Biden a question, they never say anything useful. Even when Joe Biden repeatedly tells reporters he can’t take any more questions or he will ‘get in trouble’, our once cut-throat White House press corps can’t even drum up the courage to ask the obvious follow-up — in trouble with whom?

Patrick says

However, there is a silver lining to the decline of giants like the Washington Post and the New York Times. These famed institutions, unwilling to print anything but Biden agitprop, have left a real opening in the market for actual journalism

Yeah. The opening is there. But replacing the Big Media giants will take a while. Substack isn't guaranteed to do that.

Looks like it is paywall content tho. That's not good. Millennials don't do paywalls...nor do I, really.

https://substack.com/

Looks like a Medium clone.

They haven't hit me with CAPTCHA yet. But this isn't good either:

Glenn Greenwald is on there. $5/mo.

See Patrick! I am an equal opportunity problem child whatever site I am on:

If you didn't want me staring at your chest, you wouldn't have covered up most of your face.

HunterTits says

I am an equal opportunity problem child whatever site I am on

I like tits too. Just asking you to have more respect for the site and for the other users on it.

CBS has Been slanted to the Left for Decades... nothing new here... it's all the others that are now in lockstep with each other. Heil!

https://taibbi.substack.com/p/be-it-resolved-the-mainstream-media

In modern newsrooms, especially in the last four or five years, the intellectual diversity that I think was normal in a newsroom once upon a time is vanishing, and there is an expectation, especially among younger reporters, that everybody is going to be a team player, that they're going to be devoted to pursuing the same ideological framework.

We've had a lot of controversies within news organizations where one or two reporters will try to report something, and the rest of the newsroom will revolt. We've had episodes in organizations like The Nation where somebody has done a story and the rest of the newsroom will write a letter to the editor. There have been similar episodes at The Intercept and other places.

Reporters feel: if I don't write something that the rest of the newsroom agrees with, I'm going to end up with a problem. That's resulted in a lot of conformity, and an unwillingness to go anywhere near where the perceived line of debate might be. It's also made people unwilling to go near an unpopular opinion. ...

I think in many cases, political correctness has run amok at some of the bigger papers. Notably, there was the Tom Cotton affair, when the senator from Arkansas wrote an op-ed at The New York Times, which caused an internal uprising and got the op-ed editor fired. That's too much. We can't have the thought police intervening to that extent. ...

If you go on the plane on the campaign trail, most of the people on the plane now are graduates of Ivy League universities. They live in rarefied areas of expensive, cosmopolitan neighborhoods. Socially, they see themselves as being the same people as the politicians they're reporting on. That's a terrible situation. I think that it's an underrated problem within modern news media.

https://notthebee.com/article/this-journalists-humiliation-is-a-sign-of-a-massive-problem-for-america

Take this parking lot exchange as but one example of the public's complete mistrust in its information gatekeepers, and then try to tell me we haven't arrived at that very point of no return.

Transcript

Reporter: I have no political agenda, sir. I really don't. No of the people I know does either. We're purely objective journalists.

Citizen: Uh, yeah you are.

Reporter: Truly, truly, sir, from the bottom of my heart. I don't have a political dog in…

Citizen: Ok, ok, what about all the compilation videos where they show thousands of newscasts in every city all reporting and saying the exact same thing?

Reporter: Nobody tells me what to say, sir.

Citizen: But what are those compilation videos on YouTube and Twitter? They got millions and millions of views where every reporter in every city at every station, they say the exact same thing, word for word. How do you explain that?

Reporter: I don't know what you're referring to so I can't really speak to that.

Citizen: Of course you don't.

Reporter: Ok, have a good one. Thank you so much for your time. It was great talking to you.

Citizen: It was great talking to you.

Reporter: Have a good one (pulls mask out and places it over his face and turns to camera)

Citizen: Put your mask on. Look out, the virus is gonna get you. And why do you – you didn't have your mask on the whole time, now you're putting your mask on. Here's a guy, he's been standing here the whole time without his mask, here's his camera dude with no mask on, but here he is, now he's still trying to scare everyone, now he's gonna put his mask on while he reports. Keep spreading that fear, buddy. Keep spreading that fear. Why didn't you have your mask on before? Now he's not talking to me. Why didn't you have your mask on the last 10 minutes?

Reporter: They're asking us to wear it per guidelines for television.

Citizen: Oh! Oh! So you're told what to do?

Reporter looks away and nods dismissively.

Citizen: Exactly, you just told me you weren't told what to do. You told me you could do whatever you want.

Reporter: I said I wasn't told what to say.

Citizen: Oh, so you're just told what to wear.

Reporter: We're trying to set a good example.

Right or wrong, I feel a bit of sympathy for this newsman who had been sent on location to file a report. He's right – company policy requires him, as it requires virtually every other reporter on American soil, to wear a mask, outdoors, completely isolated from anyone else, likely despite already being vaccinated. He's just doing his job.

But that doesn't change the fact that the citizen in this exchange could not have managed to expose the phoniness of modern "objective journalism" any more effectively than he did.

The journalist says they are being told to "set a good example." But of course, that is the last thing they are doing by maintaining a panic-fueling, misinformation-spreading, vaccine-discouraging mask policy outdoors, in flagrant contradiction of CDC guidelines.

It's the same offense that took place at President Biden's recent address to the absurdly sparse gathering of fully-masked, fully-vaccinated lawmakers on Capitol Hill.

It's virtue-signaling, meaningless, patently false propaganda being spread through imagery rather than words. Our news-makers and news-givers are both complicit, and consequently have obliterated any trust the American people once had in them.

That doesn't end well.

https://spectator.us/topic/journalists-keep-repeating-same-mistake-single-source-reporting/

Why do journalists keep repeating the same mistake?
The folly of single-source reporting and quiet retractions

It's not a mistake, it's deliberate.

They know that once the lie is out there, they can quietly retract and no one will pay attention to that. Most people will just believe the lie.

A lie can travel halfway around the world before the truth can get its boots on

Patrick says

They know that once the lie is out there, they can quietly retract and no one will pay attention to that. They will all just believe the lie

Actually, according to the NY Times in the Project Veritas Libel lawsuit against them, they said that everything 'reported' about PV was 100% opinion. That the journalists weren't really journalist and SHOCKER, NY Times management knew NOTHING about it it (said that in order to get out of the malice requirement for something to be libellous).

HunterTits says

they said that everything 'reported' about PV was 100% opinion

And yet strangely on the news pages and not in an Op-Ed.

Let's hope we get an honest judge on this case.

Sad reality, but only truth I can find is on substack from cancelled writers like Matt Taibi, greenwald, etc...

All media otherwise is bullshit.

https://spectator.us/topic/goodbye-america-josh-glancy-sunday-times/

I used to think American media was wonderful. As an aspiring young journalist in the UK, and a liberal, I regarded the US press as the platinum standard. ...

That was then. Now I read Tomasky, the recently appointed editor of the new-old New Republic, and chuckle at his slavish parroting of received Democratic party wisdom. I watch Amanpour compare the Trump presidency to Kristallnacht and wonder what happened to that gutsy reporter I used to gawp at. Did I change or did they? ...

But it’s also apparent that the shattering of the media’s economic foundations, the rise of narrative journalism, the attention economy, and the fundamental absurdity of our age has corroded a once great edifice.

The decline really struck me the other day while watching a segment on CNN, in which a grave young Irish chap called Donie O’Sullivan visited an event at the Trump Doral hotel in Miami, where attendees told him lots of silly things about January 6. Donie’s become a big player on the zeitgeisty misinformation beat, which in his case seems primarily to consist of finding the dumbest and most deluded Trump supporters he can and getting them to say dumb and deluded things, thus allowing CNN viewers to feast yet further on the diet of disdain, fear and self-affirmation that nourished them so healthily through the Trump era.

... But those who believe the solution is getting smug young men to draw a red line of truth around our public sphere and shout ‘Misinformation!’ at anyone who crosses it are more interested in partisan gain than healthy debate. The latter has too often become a cloak for the former. The Aspen Institute has recently and apparently with a straight face appointed Prince Harry, the troubled British royal, to its ‘Commission on Information Disorder’.That pretty much sums up the problem. ...

People at the New York Times have told me they’re looking into jobs in political risk, because they no longer want to work at an institution where their editorial direction is dependent on the whims of Twitter. Over time, I realized this shift does give us foreign correspondents a surprising competitive advantage: you and your institution are not attached to any American tribe. Even a very simple piece of reporting, such as taking some phone snaps in the smoldering ruins of downtown Kenosha, as I did during the protests last year, can bring something new to the table. So few others are bothering to do anything that contravenes ‘the narrative’.

Now I’m leaving the big show, canceling my print subscriptions, packing up my DC apartment and chucking away all those unread back issues of the Atlantic. Who knows when I’ll skip over Chris Cuomo to channel flick between Chris Hayes and Tucker Carlson again? I’ll miss so much about this splendid country: its bars, its wide-open spaces, its fried pickles (genius idea, that). But I won’t miss its media.

Ah, this helps explain why we have to read British sites to get a slightly less biased version of events.