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


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2021 Apr 10, 10:02pm   128,733 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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220   Patrick   2021 Nov 17, 7:47pm  

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Ya think?
221   Patrick   2021 Nov 18, 10:52am  

https://spectatorworld.com/newsletter/disinformation-delusion-ben-smith/


By now the double standards and missteps of those who want to “flag,” ban and de-platform their way to a healthier democracy are well established. The Wuhan Lab Leak hypothesis was a dangerous, racist conspiracy theory until, well, the evidence suggested otherwise. The acquiescence of many in big tech and at-large media outlets to hardline trans ideology prevents the statement of obvious scientific fact.
222   Ceffer   2021 Nov 18, 11:01am  

The 'Destroy Back Harder' inflation and Communist graft bill passed by Congress also contained a huge cash bolus for their propaganda organs in the MSM, over a hundred million, a scholarship grant if you will for their useful idiot mendaciousness.

They can no longer stand on their own two feet because people are not tuning in, so they have to be heavily subsidized now to keep the lies alive.

I was censored by an audiophile site, of all things, for mentioning Covid idiocy and travel. I hate myself for starting to feel schadenfreude over some of the useful idiots who will be suffering vaccine consequences. I understand that they are just unfortunate, beguiled human beings, but when they get militant and become part of the problem or even paid off, compassion tends to dry up.

One doctor who had an audiophile event at his home required masks, vaccine passports, and temperature readings before allowing people in. I find the doctors who should know better some of the strangest examples of the brainwashing. However, many are making a killing (literally) off of this, so I suppose the belief systems follow the profit motives.
223   Automan Empire   2021 Nov 18, 12:41pm  

FuckTheMainstreamMedia says
Another buried story was local cities blocking access on major streets so that the rioters wouldn’t enter those cities.


The city of Paramount wisely put up K-rails blocking the bridges over the 710 freeway/LA river corridor that mark the city limits, right before Compton on the other side lit up during the Rodney King riots. This saved the city untold millions in destruction and multiples of that if citizens and businesses had fled a decimated, dangerous city afterward. Didn't make big news but I witnessed this. With East blocked, Compton spread West burning a Costco and many smaller buildings in Gardena, and South to burn a DMV and numerous other buildings in Long Beach.
225   HeadSet   2021 Nov 19, 11:06am  

From the Bill Mahaer article above:

So, every Democratic politician has to wear on his sleeve every silly, stupid woke thing that the fringe left does and the red team has to wear kids in cages and lock her up and all that kind of stuff.”

Bill Mahaer still has to spout shit like "kids in cages" to pander his audience. "Kids in Cages" was Obama.
226   RWSGFY   2021 Nov 19, 9:52pm  

HeadSet says
From the Bill Mahaer article above:

So, every Democratic politician has to wear on his sleeve every silly, stupid woke thing that the fringe left does and the red team has to wear kids in cages and lock her up and all that kind of stuff.”

Bill Mahaer still has to spout shit like "kids in cages" to pander his audience. "Kids in Cages" was Obama.


And "lock her up" is what is absolutely deserved and needs to happen.
227   Patrick   2021 Nov 20, 10:43am  

https://babylonbee.com/news/media-found-guilty-on-all-counts


KENOSHA, WI—In a verdict that surprised both the prosecution, defense, and judge, the jury for the Rittenhouse trial declared that the Media be found guilty on all counts.

The courtroom fell silent as the jury foreman stood to read the verdict, “We the jury find the media guilty on all counts, including the egregious use of its influence to lie to the American people.”

The jury then listed guilty verdicts for the following allegations:

Painting an innocent American teenager as a white supremacist terrorist.
Painting violent, communist criminals as peaceful, innocent victims.
Using its influence to sow painful divisions in the greatest nation on Earth.
Using minorities as pawns in race-baiting schemes just for ratings.
Inciting violence on vulnerable neighborhoods and minority-owned businesses.
Giving an entire show to Brian Stelter.
Upon hearing the verdicts, the judge summarily sentenced the Media to continue its inevitable decline in viewership and trust, until they either strive for objective journalism, or disappear entirely.

Following the verdicts and sentencing, the Media immediately reported to the American people that a murderous white supremacist terrorist was set free, given a KKK outfit and bazooka, and told to kill, kill, kill.



228   Patrick   2021 Nov 20, 5:59pm  

https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/the-world-erupts-again-in-protests


the world erupts (again) in protests against tyranny
and once more, it's "crickets" from the US media

el gato malo
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just a quick sampling of a bit of the news from the rest of the world today in case you missed it:

Twitter avatar for @aginnt
Aaron Ginn
@aginnt
“Freedom! Freedom! Freedom!”

From Vienna today👇🏼
November 20th 2021

76 Retweets198 Likes
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Ivan Vilibor Sinčić MEP
@SincicMEP
Croatia against Covid pass.
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November 20th 2021

3,809 Retweets11,098 Likes
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Aaron Ginn
@aginnt
From Paris today, an endless stream of anti-mandate and pro-liberty protestors.
November 20th 2021

100 Retweets219 Likes
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Avi Yemini 🇦🇺🇮🇱
@OzraeliAvi
Meanwhile in Melbourne.
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November 20th 2021

2,926 Retweets12,481 Likes
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Disclose.tv
@disclosetv
NOW - Violent protests against Covid-restrictions in #Rotterdam, Netherlands.

November 19th 2021

9,291 Retweets23,553 Likes
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Braudel
@Kukicat7
Rome today as the numbers grow against the Green pass
November 20th 2021

251 Retweets572 Likes
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Aaron Ginn
@aginnt
An amazing scene in Perth today as tens of thousands of protestors gather to stop the destruction of their free country.
November 20th 2021

108 Retweets293 Likes
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Aaron Ginn
@aginnt
Zurich rises today in force to stop medical segregation and to recall COVID emergency powers.
November 20th 2021

71 Retweets190 Likes
meanwhile, back in america, THIS is trending:

so, while, yeah, clearly we inhabit clown world, amidst all the endless bread and circuses, a “mr. cynical paws” kind of cat might be temped to observe:

why, it’s almost as if the media/government complex is seeking to hide how vulnerable the state is to uprisings and how far out of step these ersatz bio-fascist dictators have become with the mood of the people.
be a shame if someone came along and helped spread the news…


See https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/the-world-erupts-again-in-protests for the videos.

A huge amount of protest activity is being deliberately censored in the US corporate media.
229   Patrick   2021 Nov 20, 6:00pm  


MJ16 min ago
I intellectually understood the phrase "the Revolution will not be televised" but it wasn't until this year that I really got it
230   richwicks   2021 Nov 20, 6:21pm  

Patrick says

MJ16 min ago
I intellectually understood the phrase "the Revolution will not be televised" but it wasn't until this year that I really got it


Truthfully, I didn't really understand it either. That's embarrassing.
232   Patrick   2021 Nov 23, 6:54pm  

https://odysee.com/@VSRF:d/Vaccine-Safety-Research-Foundation-TNI:e


Vaccine Safety Research Foundation
@VSRF
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Why have our doctors, scientists and PhDs been silenced? Does the TNI have anything to do with it?

Sponsored by Vaccine Safety Research Foundation




233   Patrick   2021 Nov 23, 7:42pm  

https://babylonbee.com/news/black-white-americans-join-hands-around-common-cause-of-launching-journalists-into-the-sun


Black, White Americans Join Hands Around Common Cause Of Launching Journalists Into The Sun

U.S.—In a rare moment of national unity, Americans of all races, backgrounds, and creeds have joined hands together across America around the shared belief that we should immediately launch all mainstream media journalists directly into the sun.

"I know we don't agree on much these days, but this one's a no-brainer," said Dale Smith, a white guy from Townville, Tennessee. "I'm honestly not sure why we didn't do this a long time ago."

Darnell Woodson, a black small business owner from Baltimore, agrees. "Wait a minute! We haven't launched all the lyin' journalists into the sun yet? Well, no wonder things are so bad," he said.

Citizens, experts, and policymakers all agree that gathering up the people most responsible for the racial hatred and division in this country over the last decade, loading them all into a rocket, and launching them straight into the nearest star as quickly as possible is the most effective thing we can do to promote healing in America.

Elon Musk has announced he will dedicate one of his very own SpaceX rockets for the task. He will also dedicate a second rocket large enough to hold Brian Stelter.
234   Patrick   2021 Nov 24, 5:53pm  

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/censorship-omidyar-group-whistleblower-aid-facebook


Story at-a-glance:

The International Grand Committee on Disinformation (IGCD) consists of “an international array of legislators, policy advisers and other experts” who work together “to forge international alliances that bring shared, effective strategies into the battle against online disinformation.”
The founders of the IGCD are four members of the British and Canadian Parliaments, including British Member of Parliament (MP) Damian Collins, who is also on the board of the Centers for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH). The CCDH fabricates reports that are then used to strip people of their freedom of speech rights.
Logistics for the IGCD are provided by the Reset Initiative (a not-so-subtle reminder that censorship is a requirement for The Great Reset), which is part of The Omidyar Group of philanthropies.
Omidyar funds Whistleblower Aid, the legal counsel for the fake Facebook “whistleblower” Frances Haugen, who has testified before U.S., French, British and EU lawmakers, calling for more censorship.
CCDH chairman Simon Clark also has ties to Arabella Advisors, the most powerful dark money lobbying group in the U.S.
If you suspected censorship was being coordinated on a global scale, you’d be right.
235   Patrick   2021 Nov 27, 10:37am  

https://babylonbee.com/news/racist-joe-biden-bans-travel-trom-africa





WASHINGTON, D.C.—Americans are appalled after learning the racist President Biden has banned travel from 8 African countries.

"If you are able to travel freely to America, then you ain't black," said Biden. "We have a new COVID variant or something like that. All the Africans have gotta stay out."

Voters are reporting that they are devastated to learn Biden is just as racist as Trump was when he restricted travel from China. Just like when Trump did it, Biden's racist travel ban is obviously an attempt to keep people of color out of our country while using COVID as an excuse. Sad!

Civil rights groups and various liberal organizations have not yet come out and condemned the racist, xenophobic travel ban as they did during the Trump travel ban. This is probably just because they forgot, or maybe they had too many Thanksgiving leftovers and fell asleep.
236   Patrick   2021 Nov 27, 11:07am  

https://nitter.pussthecat.org/RWMaloneMD/status/1464609507460489223#m


Robert W Malone, MD
@RWMaloneMD
3h
"Let us give thanks today that this dreary, repressive sector of the media devoted to homogenized thought, coerced conformity & abolition of dissent is dying, while platforms devoted to free thought, editorial independ, and diversity of opinion are thriving," Greenwald concluded"
2:58 PM · Nov 27, 2021
237   Patrick   2021 Nov 27, 11:59am  

https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-cynical-and-dangerous-weaponization


Within hours of the August 25, 2020, shootings in Kenosha, Wisconsin — not days, but hours — it was decreed as unquestioned fact in mainstream political and media circles that the shooter, Kyle Rittenhouse, was a "white supremacist.” Over the next fifteen months, up to and including his acquittal by a jury of his peers on all charges, this label was applied to him more times than one can count by corporate media outlets as though it were proven fact. Indeed, that Rittenhouse was a "white supremacist” was deemed so unquestionably true that questioning it was cast as evidence of one's own racist inclinations (defending a white supremacist).

Yet all along, there was never any substantial evidence, let alone convincing proof, that it was true. This fact is, or at least should be, an extraordinary, even scandalous, event: a 17-year-old was widely vilified as being a white supremacist by a union of national media and major politicians despite there being no evidence to support the accusation. Yet it took his acquittal by a jury who heard all the evidence and testimony for parts of the corporate press to finally summon the courage to point out that what had been Gospel about Rittenhouse for the last fifteen months was, in fact, utterly baseless.
238   Patrick   2021 Nov 28, 10:32am  

https://igorchudov.substack.com/p/medias-false-fear-about-michigan


Media's false fearmongering about Michigan
How-to debunk scarecrow articles and why the VAXXED should be in fear ...

Similar cookie cutter articles appear about other locations. They always are meant to blame the unvaccinated for the situation and to scare people into getting vaccinated.

The problem is that these articles are lies.

You can easily look at the situation and usually you can show that

the number of hospitalized Covid patients is similar to last year (despite “safe and effective” vaccines)

the number of non-Covid patients (usually sick vaccinated people) is about 20-30% higher than a year ago

shortage of staff is due to firings of unvaccinated workers
240   zzyzzx   2021 Nov 29, 5:08am  

https://nypost.com/2021/11/28/media-helped-hide-the-real-joe-biden-by-censoring-hunter-stories-devine/

Media helped hide the real Joe Biden by censoring Hunter stories: Devine
243   Bd6r   2021 Nov 29, 5:38pm  

Exhibit 123486813646: rocks attack people, just like high-capacity SUV's


245   RWSGFY   2021 Nov 29, 8:10pm  

Bd6r says
Exhibit 123486813646: rocks attack people, just like high-capacity SUV's




Damn you, rock!
246   Patrick   2021 Nov 29, 10:09pm  

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/11/build-back-better-act-offers-media-billions-go-daniel-greenfield/


Build Back Better Act Offers Media Billions To Go After Republicans
Give the media $1.9 billion and they promise to stop Republicans from winning elections.

Mon Nov 22, 2021 Daniel Greenfield




249   Patrick   2021 Dec 2, 1:14pm  

https://notthebee.com/article/the-mainstream-media-has-apparently-more-or-less-ceased-reporting-on-the-waukesha-car-massacre-and-thats-kinda-weird-dont-you-think


Look, I don't want to get my info from explicitly right-leaning publications but apparently if you want to know anything about that guy who mass murdered people at a parade last week, that's where you have to go.

The NYT stopped reporting on this story 5 days ago. Their last piece was an article that treated him as a hiccup in the efforts toward bail reform.

The Washington Post reported on this story for 2 days before they abandoned it.

That's, um...really weird, isn't it?
It's true, though: the two papers of record in the United States have more or less ignored this story, opting instead for sparse reportage on secondary aspects of the tragedy itself.
254   Booger   2021 Dec 7, 2:56am  

More gaslighting:

256   Patrick   2021 Dec 7, 10:07pm  

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/media-sen-ron-johnson-fauci-hiv-danger/?utm_source=patrick.net&utm_campaign=patrick.net&utm_medium=patrick.net


media outlets have been complicit in Dr. Fauci’s disastrous mismanagement of the pandemic — with 4.2% of the world’s population, America under Dr. Fauci’s regimen, racked up 20% of global COVID deaths.

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