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


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2021 Apr 10, 10:02pm   128,487 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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112   Patrick   2021 Aug 20, 11:16pm  

Glenn Greenwald
@ggreenwald
Aug 19
That's how propaganda works. If the media told you how key US allies like Saudis and Egyptians treat journalists and dissidents, you'd be furious the US supports them.

But since they hide those abuses, you're not angry about it, and instead are orientated to hate Russia & Cuba
115   richwicks   2021 Aug 22, 2:59am  

Patrick says

Glenn Greenwald
@ggreenwald
2h
The world's dumbest fucking people (Media Matters liberals) are expressing bewilderment at my statement that CIA influences corporate media outlets like CNN (even though CNN employs former top CIA officials). If you don't understand this basic fact about the US, you know nothing.


@richwicks should enjoy this. Greenwald is openly talking about the CIA running CNN and being merged with the DNC.


I think at this point it should be perfectly obvious who our media really is.

I will bet, our traditional media will collapse in less than 5 years. It was a tremendous mistake for the intelligence agencies to lie about Trump for 4 years.
118   Patrick   2021 Aug 22, 11:41pm  

Media bigshot on board of Pfizer.

Who would have guessed?






120   Patrick   2021 Aug 25, 11:53pm  


Andrea Junker
@Strandjunker
15h
JOURNALISM 101 RULE: If someone says it’s raining, and another person says it’s dry, it’s not your job to quote them both. Your job is to look out of the fucking window and find out which is true. — Now more than ever.
121   Patrick   2021 Aug 26, 9:07am  

https://spectatorworld.com/topic/substack-changed-business-journalism/


Substack changed the business of journalism
Substack took off because people are increasingly distrustful of mainstream media outlets

August 21, 2021 | 2:49 pm
122   zzyzzx   2021 Aug 26, 10:44am  

More gaslighting:

123   zzyzzx   2021 Aug 26, 10:48am  

But they looked so healthy!!!




Gross!!!
124   Ceffer   2021 Aug 26, 11:45am  

Gee, I'm so glad Obama legalized the use of propaganda against the American people, whereas it used to be against the law.
125   richwicks   2021 Aug 26, 1:45pm  

Ceffer says
Gee, I'm so glad Obama legalized the use of propaganda against the American people, whereas it used to be against the law.


It wasn't prosecuted anyhow, and has been in use for decades.

All Obama did was stop lying about the use of propaganda against Americans. It was in use all along.
128   Patrick   2021 Aug 27, 10:33am  

https://jonathanturley.org/2021/08/26/who-watches-the-watchmen-infowars-case-raises-difficult-question-for-both-the-biden-administration-and-the-media/

Advocacy reporting is the new touchstone of the journalistically woke . . . unless, that advocacy is for conservative causes or groups. I do not agree with Shroyer any more than I agree with Reid. However, they are both engaged in what is now celebrated as advocacy journalism. It is bad enough to witness the demise of traditional journalism but the Shroyer case may foreshadow an even worse future where only certain forms of advocacy will be allowed. As with NPR, what is being advocated will determine who is still a journalist. That will bring the movement of advocacy journalism to its inevitable end, leaving only advocacy in the wake of journalism.
129   Patrick   2021 Aug 27, 11:32pm  

https://billmoyers.com/story/twenty-years-of-media-consolidation-has-not-been-good-for-our-democracy/


Twenty Years of Media Consolidation Has Not Been Good For Our Democracy
The media has become controlled by a handful of corporations thanks to the Telecommunications Act of 1996.

BY MICHAEL CORCORAN | MARCH 30, 2016
130   Patrick   2021 Aug 28, 10:06am  

https://babylonbee.com/news/report-kamala-harris-currently-laughing-so-something-really-tragic-must-have-happened





This is going to be shorter than usual, as I have a very tight deadline since I hear the Taliban breaking into my building, but I just have to say what an excellent job President Biden has done during the evacuation of Afghanistan. The withdrawal has really emphasized that he was the right man for the job.

Sure, maybe a few Americans got left behind and some places — like the building I’m in — got quickly overrun by the Taliban. But think of all the people he did get out. And look at all the buildings that don’t have the Taliban going through them door-to-door with guns in hand. Well, I can’t see any from my window right now — and I think I need to get away from the window and hide under a desk — but many things have gone smoothly thanks to Biden’s steady leadership.

Now, it might be hard to see the larger picture over the shouting and gunfire just below me, but this operation has gone about as well as it possibly could have. And what has gone wrong, such as the Taliban now entering my floor, just emphasizes why we needed to leave.

Okay, they’re knocking on my door now, so I need to type really quietly, but think of this: Can you imagine what a nightmare this would be if Trump were still in charge? He’d just be yelling and shouting threats instead of the calm, almost completely hands-off approach we got from Biden. Biden knows not to overreact and—

They’ve broken down the door. I’ll have to end this here. And all I have left to say is that I can’t even imagine how this could have gone any better.

Someone please feed my cat.
131   Ceffer   2021 Aug 28, 10:12am  

Just in: "British Parliament Demands Reparations From Biden Administration For Lost Opium Profits, Issues Arrest Warrant".

"Those aggrieved Third Worlders are just going to have to wait in line for their reparations. The Queen waits in line for no one!"
133   Patrick   2021 Aug 28, 11:38am  

https://notthebee.com/article/a-major-newspaper-implied-that-900-florida-residents-died-of-covid-in-a-single-day-it-was-actually-as-low-as-eight-this-is-why-people-hate-the-media

A major newspaper implied that 901 Florida residents died of COVID in a single day. It was actually as low as eight. This is why people hate the media.

Put your tray tables up and strap yourself in, because it's time for a lesson in abject media malfeasance.

The Miami Herald on Thursday ran with this shocking and arresting headline:

Florida COVID update: 901 added deaths, largest single-day increase in pandemic history

It's obvious what the paper is trying to communicate: That the state on Wednesday recorded a staggering 901 deaths, a brutal toll and a razor-sharp indictment of Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis's handling of the pandemic there. In particular the number is plainly supposed to indicate that the pandemic is spiraling out of control as deaths skyrocket to unimaginable numbers.

Unsurprisingly, the 901 figure was spread far and wide on social media. Here's a viral post from a Florida Democratic activist: ...

Here's the thing, though: The 901 figure is bogus, at least as far as it's meant to symbolize an entire day's worth of deaths. It's not. Not even close.

Rather, the numbers represent the cumulative deaths gathered from a dataset stretching as far back as March of 2020.

Florida didn't report 901 deaths on a single day; it reported 901 deaths from a set of over three dozen days.
It's not surprising that it's done this way: Public health authorities are always working on a lag when it comes to reported deaths. If ten people die from COVID-19 on a Monday, the health department might only report one of those deaths on a Tuesday, then two on Wednesday, then the remaining seven on Thursday as death certificates come in and are confirmed. This is done on a rolling basis and then updated in bulk at certain intervals – a policy DeSantis' opponents allege is meant to hide total deaths... you know, for like a few weeks?
135   Patrick   2021 Aug 30, 1:39pm  

https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/pfizer-is-your-friend/


Pfizer is your friend
StatNews says so!

Alex Berenson
54 min ago

Barf bags for the reader, knee pads for the author: some very special journalism happening here. This would be a perfect Twitter hit, but I ain’t got Twitter no more, so…


Know what surprised these hard-working Pfizer scientists the most? Not how quickly efficacy fell or how fast antibodies vanished or how many people reported serious side effects!

No, what surprised them the most was how well their vaccine worked!


True story, bro. Can’t make it up.

By the way, the Yahoo/Week article is excerpted (not plagiarized, excepted!) from an even more cringeworthy piece in StatNews.


Worried about the variants? Don’t be! Things are going great. Pfizer promises. And you can trust Pfizer!


Say hi to Twitter for me, Team!

Write a comment…

margaret janus5 min ago
off to twit it goes :)

Reply

publiusrgj5 min ago
Pfizer is an admitted multiple Pfederal Pfelon. Look up Pfizer's rap sheet. It's a long one. Biggest criminal settlement in US history was against Pfizer in 2009 or so. Over $2B. They are an habitual offender. But they don't go to jail. It's just the cost of doing business.

And do look that drug trial in Nigeria. It was a trial of an antibiotic called Trovan against menginitis. In Children. In the "control arm" of a such a study dealing with a deadly disease that can kill people, you don't use a placebo, you use the current standard treatment. You don't play around when conducting experiments where people can die. If someone in the treatment arm isn't responding to your new trial drug, you switch 'em immediately to the standard treatment. That is, if you're actually a human being and not some money-grubbing monster.

Pfizer was accused of intentionally lowering the dose of the standard treatment so as to make their treatment arm look better.

You can better get away with criminal shit like this in third world countries.

I know this sounds monstrous and some may not believe it. Look it up for yourselves and read all the information and stories.
136   Patrick   2021 Aug 31, 9:43am  

https://spectatorworld.com/topic/grim-rise-antivax-death-local-news-stories/

Losing weight is another entirely controllable way to reduce COVID risk, too, but the same publications that gloat over dead vaccine skeptics have published a Pravda’s worth of takes explaining that COVID-related fat shaming is not funny and not OK. ...

In November, a South Dakota nurse tweeted of dying patients gasping that the virus was fake even as they were intubated. Both of those stories were, it turns out, fake, and Cockburn doesn’t feel much better about Alabama doctor Brytney Corbia, who sent a tingle down every CNN producer’s leg when she described staring down plague victims and telling them it was ‘too late’ to get a vaccine.

Will these stories convince any fence-sitters to get the vaccine? A few, maybe. But so far they’ve been far more effective at spreading hatred of the press.


Why are these spectacular death fables so popular? Cockburn suspects a major element is precisely that COVID-19 has not been as spectacularly destructive as some people feared (hoped?). Despite all the fretting about schools, actual K-12 outbreaks have not materialized,; even unvaccinated children remain frustratingly near-immune from harm. Red state hospitals have never collapsed under the waves that were predicted 18 months ago. Many thousands have died, but they are almost all of the old or sickly sort for whom death is unsurprising. And yet despite all of this, life in blue states and cities remains as repressed as ever. First-graders have spent a quarter of their lives masked up, flying is even more of an indignity than before, the average small business owner is still a wreck from months of yo-yo lockdowns. All of these policies require a human sacrifice as a symbol, if nothing else. They are proof that, if American life has become depressing and alienating, at least unbelievers are still condemned to COVID hell.
137   Patrick   2021 Aug 31, 10:12am  

https://twitter.com/Rusopaisa1/status/1432702186748841995#m


Rusopaisa
@Rusopaisa1
3h
Replying to @RWMaloneMD @burningplat
Old school journalism has been dead for a long time. They have now been replaced by presstitutes that report whatever their corporate masters tell them to.
1:49 PM · Aug 31, 2021


"Presstitutes" is perfect.
139   Patrick   2021 Aug 31, 1:04pm  

https://notthebee.com/article/busted-weather-guy-pretends-hes-being-swept-away-by-hurricane-ida-while-utility-crew-chills-in-the-background-

HILARIOUS! Weather guy struggles mightily against Hurricane Ida's wind then a random dude casually hits a cartwheel in the background 😂
140   Patrick   2021 Sep 1, 11:46am  

https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_morningbrief/ny-times-pulled-ad-calling-ccp-to-account-for-pandemic_3972529.html?utm_source=patrick.net&utm_medium=patrick.net&utm_campaign=patrick.net

NY Times Pulled Ad Calling CCP to Account for Pandemic
BY PETR SVAB August 31, 2021

A full-page advertisement that called for the world to hold the Chinese communist regime to account for the COVID-19 pandemic was pulled at the last moment by The New York Times in March 2020. The paper said the ad didn’t meet its standards, but the ad was pulled after it had already passed the paper’s vetting process. The businessman who paid for the ad suspects the paper’s ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) played a role. He only revealed the details of the incident to The Epoch Times earlier this year.

The ad was scheduled to run on March 22, 2020. It was already approved, paid for, and even printed and distributed in some locations when the paper pulled the plug in the middle of the night, preventing the ad from being published in some of the paper’s main markets, including New York and Florida.

The decision was so abrupt that the sales representative responsible for the ad wasn’t informed, and the client only found out the next morning when he couldn’t find the ad in the paper.

The client, Brett Kingstone, is a real estate developer in Florida. He backed up his story with email threads documenting his correspondence with the newspaper as well as images of the contract he signed, details about the payment and subsequent refund of the $55,000 ad fee, and photos of the ad as it ran in some locales.

New York Times spokeswoman Danielle Rhoades Ha said the ad ran in “an early edition of Sunday’s paper and was removed from all later editions, which account for the vast majority of copies.”

“The ad in question did not meet our standards and should not have appeared in The New York Times,” she told The Epoch Times via email.

She didn’t respond to a question about whether the paper faced any CCP pressure regarding the ad.

“It was removed after being flagged internally by [New York] Times staff,” she said.

Kingstone, a prolific donor to charitable and conservative causes, had contacted The New York Times via email on March 18, 2020, with an advertorial placement request.

He said he placed an advertorial in the paper’s Sunday edition back in 2018 and the staff “did an excellent job in delivering what was promised both in performance and placement.”

“I am interested in doing the same again,” he said, submitting a draft of the ad.

The text urged the U.S. government to organize and initiate investigations and lawsuits regarding the origins and repercussions of the CCP virus pandemic.

“This virus was the direct result of the incompetence and irresponsibility of the Chinese Government. They showed as much disregard for their own population as they have for ours,” the ad stated.

It called for “massive liability lawsuits” against the CCP as well as investigations into two Chinese labs close to the epicenter of the pandemic, including the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

Scrutiny of the Wuhan Institute of Virology was treated as a taboo subject by social media and the corporate press at the time. Only earlier this year have establishment actors acknowledged that the inquiries were legitimate and that the virus could have escaped from the lab.

On March 19, 2020, the ad placement representative informed Kingstone that it had been accepted.

“My Ad Acceptability team has approved the message as long as we include the footnotes, your email address, a border around the ad, and advertisement slugs,” the representative said.

The two then exchanged several emails regarding technical edits to the ad as well as proof of payment of the ad fee required before publication.

Everything seemed to go smoothly.

Then, on the morning of March 22, 2020, Kingstone was surprised to learn the ad was nowhere to be found in the Florida edition of the paper.

In his inbox, he found an email from the sales representative:

“I wanted to let you know that I was informed late last night that our production team had pulled the ad from the production run, without my knowledge. I’m investigating this now and I’ll get back to you as soon as I can with any updates,” it read.

“I just wanted to assure you that I’m working on this and I will hopefully be able to share additional context on Monday after I speak to the necessary people. I will be in touch on Monday!”

The representative has since left the paper. The Epoch Times is omitting her name for the sake of her privacy.

Kingstone didn’t hide his disappointment.

“I would like to know the reason why they did this,” he said in an email response to the representative, requesting a refund.

He asked whether the paper’s executives concluded that his particular message needed to be silenced.

“I was very pleased with how the NYT treated me on my first advocacy advertisement. They were more than fair. Now my fears about bias are being realized,” he wrote.

The cancellation was all the more a slap in the face given that The New York Times used to regularly publish propaganda advertorials paid for by a company directly controlled by the CCP.

After receiving his refund, Kingstone didn’t leave it at that.

As it happened, his website, which was listed on the ad, came under a cyberattack around the same time the copies of the paper that did include the ad landed on people’s doormats, he said.

This was too much of a coincidence for Kingstone, who has had his share of run-ins with the CCP. It was his company that years earlier won a precedent-setting lawsuit against Chinese counterfeiters. In 2005, he published a book detailing his story, called “The Real War Against America.”

Kingstone started to inquire with his contacts and eventually reached the conclusion that the CCP must have been involved in the ad’s cancellation.

One New York Times executive told him a CCP official called the paper’s leadership, demanding the ad be pulled, he said. The Epoch Times wasn’t able to independently confirm that the phone call took place. Attempts to reach the executive for comment were unsuccessful. The paper’s spokesperson neither confirmed nor denied that such a phone call took place.

In any case, the situation carries “an earmark of how China would operate,” according to Pat Laflin, a former FBI agent who upon retirement led a series of lectures for the bureau to American businesses and research entities on economic espionage by adversarial nations, including China.

It’s “impossible” that the CCP let the ad slide, he told The Epoch Times.

“If there’s anything negative about China, China’s going to scream,” he said in a phone call.

It would just be the question of what form the pressure took, he said.

“Exactly what they said and how subtle it was or how not-so-subtle, that’s all speculation. I don’t know. But did the call come in? Yes.”

The New York Times has over the years repeatedly faced criticism over its relations with the CCP. The controversy reaches back to at least 2001, when the paper’s publisher at the time, Arthur Sulzberger Jr., met with then-CCP leader Jiang Zemin, whose power faction within the communist regime exerts influence even to this day, long after his retirement.

The paper actively discouraged reporting on one of the most gruesome atrocities committed by the CCP—the harvesting of organs from prisoners of conscience, mainly practitioners of the Falun Gong spiritual practice—as indicated by former New York Times Beijing correspondent Didi Kirsten Tatlow in her testimony to the independent China Tribunal in the United Kingdom.

Last year, the paper finally cut ties with the CCP-controlled China Daily and quietly deleted hundreds of paid propaganda pieces from its website, The Washington Free Beacon reported. China Daily disclosed to federal authorities one $50,000 payment to The New York Times in 2018. It’s not clear how much total revenue The New York Times drew from CCP advertorials.


NYT = CCP
142   Patrick   2021 Sep 4, 10:18am  

https://notthebee.com/article/forbes-seriously-tweeted-this





So, this is a very confusing headline as I was under the impression that the mortality rate for humans was sitting right at 100%.

So, according to a "study" cited by Forbes, transgender people die at a rate of 200%! Really hard to believe.
143   Patrick   2021 Sep 4, 11:59pm  

https://www.newswars.com/rolling-stone-runs-ivermectin-poisoning-hoax-story/


Rolling Stone Runs Ivermectin Poisoning Hoax Story
Hospital group says doctor behind story hasn’t worked for them in over two months and the hospital hasn't treated a single patient for ivermectin "overdose."


So sad. Rolling Stone used to be a quality journal. Now newswars.com is far superior in honesty and details.

Weird world.
144   Patrick   2021 Sep 5, 10:37am  

https://www.dailywire.com/news/no-ivermectin-overdoses-didnt-overwhelm-oklahoma-hospitals-and-force-gunshot-victims-to-wait

This shows crazy levels of corruption in the media.

Is there any lie so ridiculously obvious that they would be ashamed to print it? Or do they have no shame at all?
145   Patrick   2021 Sep 6, 3:05am  

https://www.axios.com/media-trust-crisis-2bf0ec1c-00c0-4901-9069-e26b21c283a9.html


For the first time ever, fewer than half of all Americans have trust in traditional media, according to data from Edelman's annual trust barometer shared exclusively with Axios. Trust in social media has hit an all-time low of 27%.

56% of Americans agree with the statement that "Journalists and reporters are purposely trying to mislead people by saying things they know are false or gross exaggerations."
58% think that "most news organizations are more concerned with supporting an ideology or political position than with informing the public."
When Edelman re-polled Americans after the election, the figures had deteriorated even further, with 57% of Democrats trusting the media and only 18% of Republicans.
146   Onvacation   2021 Sep 6, 9:23am  

Patrick says
Rolling Stone used to be a quality journal.

They were right up there with Playboy for news reporting.

But I just looked at the pictures and cartoons.
147   Patrick   2021 Sep 6, 12:07pm  

Patrick says
57% of Democrats trusting the media


The power of the oligarchy rests in Democrats who refuse to think.

When the left finally sees the obvious reality that the corporate press has become nothing but propaganda, then the true story of what the oligarchy has done to us all over the last year and a half for profit and power can make it into their heads. Maybe.

Again it's odd how the political left used to claim they were for the people and against corporations, but have proven themselves to be the exact opposite of that, obedient stooges for the corporate/government complex, willing to overlook any crime, even genocide, as long as they see their beloved sodomy flag or BLM logo.

But for now, the left are the brownshirts for the new fascism.
148   HeadSet   2021 Sep 6, 12:53pm  

Patrick says
When the left finally sees the obvious reality that the corporate press has become nothing but propaganda, then the true story of what the oligarchy has done to us all over the last year and a half for profit and power can make it into their heads. Maybe.

I think it is more like the Mafia. The leftists know what they are doing is wrong, but they feel they will be the ones in charge.

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