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


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2021 Apr 10, 10:02pm   129,001 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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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.
261   Patrick   2021 Dec 12, 9:23am  

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/cia-liberal-media-outlets-the-real-anthony-fauci/?utm_source=patrick.net&utm_campaign=patrick.net&utm_medium=patrick.net


CIA’s Extraordinary Role Influencing Liberal Media Outlets Daily Kos, The Daily Beast, Rolling Stone
Part 1 of a two-part series takes a deep dive into the history of the CIA’s central role in orchestrating news and editorial coverage in America’s most influential liberal national media outlets — and its continued hold today.
262   Patrick   2021 Dec 12, 10:15am  

https://spectatorworld.com/topic/media-apologize-going-jussie-smollett/?source=patrick.net


Not a single writer, or pundit, or CNN anchor, or MSNBC host, who pushed how grotesque this “attack” was will stare down the camera during one of their shows, and say “I was wrong — we need to be better.” They have had ample opportunity to do so.
263   Patrick   2021 Dec 12, 11:37am  

https://nitter.pussthecat.org/RWMaloneMD/status/1469655414082002944?source=patrick.net#m


Robert W Malone, MD
@RWMaloneMD
Dec 11
The "Trusted News Initiative" is one of the mechanisms by which legacy media and Big tech act to close the "Overton Window" of acceptable political discourse.
odysee.com/@VSRF:d/Vaccine-S…

What is the Trusted News Initiative?
Why have our doctors, scientists and PhDs been silenced? Does the TNI have anything to do with it? Sponsored by Vaccine Safety Research Foundation VacSafety.org
odysee.com

This is a great example of intentional tactical actions by USG in collusion with private entities to restrict the Overton window regarding the discussion of the "lab leak" (ergo, gain of function engineering of this pathogen) by USG (DTRA, NIH) cooperating with the Wuhan lab.

Regarding the "Overton Window": Pharma, BigTech, legacy media and the government have succeeded in intentionally collapsing what is "allowable" political discourse. Freedom benefits from those who speak "radical" truths which help push it back open.

This is a deep strategic and tactical truth that broadcasters like Steve Bannon and Glen Beck understand. They are intentional media warriors that stand at the edge of allowable discourse and continually work to push the window open. This is their role in this passion play.
266   Patrick   2021 Dec 16, 10:03am  



A tiny crack in the wall of lies.
270   Patrick   2021 Dec 23, 8:28pm  

Same event written up two ways.

1. Responsible journalism:



2. Whores sucking Pfizer cock for cash:

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