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Columbia Journalism Review Abandons Neutrality – Adopts Gun-Control Advocacy

https://dailycaller.com/2021/05/26/korwin-columbia-journalism-review-abandons-neutrality-adopts-gun-control-advocacy/

"Reporters" can no longer tell the difference between journalism and propaganda.

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

Trust in traditional media has declined to an all-time low, and many news professionals are determined to do something about it.

Why it matters: Faith in society's central institutions, especially in government and the media, is the glue that holds society together. That glue was visibly dissolving a decade ago, and has now, for many millions of Americans, disappeared entirely.

By the numbers: 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.
...

As vaccine rumor hunter Heidi Larson puts it, "we don’t have a misinformation problem, we have a trust problem.”

News organizations have historically relied mainly on advertising income, and as those dollars flow increasingly to Google and Facebook, that has created institutional weakness that shows up in trust data.

Reversing the decline is a monster task — and one that some journalists and news organizations have taken upon themselves. They're going to need help — perhaps from America's CEOs.

The catch: Mistrust of media is now a central part of many Americans' personal identity — an article of faith that they weren't argued into and can't be argued out of.

Lucy and Charlie Brown with the football: 'Please trust us again, so we can continue to prosper by fucking you all in the ass again!'

MisdemeanorRebellionNoCoupForYou says

How many scoops?

https://www.foxnews.com/us/usa-today-transgender-athlete-op-ed-chelsea-mitchell

USA Today scrubs 'male' from teen's op-ed on competing against transgender athletes
Chelsea Mitchell wrote about competing against biologically male athletes

Former high school track athlete Chelsea Mitchell was the "fastest girl in Connecticut" at one point in time until the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference (CIAC) began allowing transgender girls to compete in women's sports.

Last week, USA Today published an op-ed from Mitchell about competing against transgender athletes and her decision to push forward with an appeal of the case. On May 25, editors at USA Today, without notice to Chelsea, changed the word "male" to "transgender" throughout her piece and condemned her use of "hurtful language."

In an editor’s note, the outlet explained that the op-ed was updated to "reflect USA Today’s standards and style guidelines. We regret that hurtful language was used."

In a series of tweets, Mitchell's attorney, Christiana Holcomb, accused the media organization of "unilaterally" changing Mitchell’s words after acquiescing to "backlash from the woke mob."

"USA Today violated its principles to appease the mob. This blatant censorship violates the trust we place in media to be honest brokers of public debate," Holcomb wrote. The original op-ed has been published in full by the Alliance Defending Freedom, the nonprofit legal group that represents Mitchell.

Mitchell is one of three Connecticut female high school track stars who filed a lawsuit to overturn the state athletic conference's transgender policy at the beginning of 2020.

"I've lost four women's state championship titles, two all-New England awards, and countless other opportunities and spots on the podium to biologically male runners," Mitchell said in an interview with Fox News.

"Title IX is really clear that the reason we have women's sports as a separate category is to protect equal athletic opportunities for female athletes like Chelsea," Holcomb, the Alliance Defending Freedom attorney representing the girls, told Fox News. "And that is just not what's happening in the state of Connecticut right now with biological males having dominated the girls category."

Last month a federal district court dismissed the case, but according to Holcomb the fight isn’t over yet. "Just today Alliance Defending Freedom filed a notice of appeal with the 2nd Circuit," she said.

"The district court still refused to engage with the merits of the argument and recognize that the girls have had significant losses," she said. "The court utterly dismissed their lost opportunities and achievements and so we want to see that remedied."

Having graduated high school last year and now running at the collegiate level, Mitchell says she is doing this not just for herself but for all women athletes in her state.

"It is a big issue," Mitchell said. "Personally, I lost a lot, but there were countless other girls that also lost state championships. I believe there were 15 state championships that the two biological males took from biological females. And there were more than 85 girls that missed out on opportunities to advance in medal and make finals. And so it's not just me, girls across the state were being impacted by this policy."

"We hope that the girls' records will be fixed," Holcomb said and claimed the girls should be recognized for the achievements they would have made had it not been for the unfair advantage of the trans athletes they competed against.

They are also pushing to have the policy changed so trans athletes can no longer participate in women’s athletics. "We want to see the policy fixed so that no other young women in the state of Connecticut have to experience that unfairness," Holcomb said.

How is it "journalism" at all to change other people's words to support the reality-denying ideology of transgenderism?

Most "journalists" are simply propagandists now, not even hiding their lies and distortions.

https://dailycaller.com/2021/06/01/columbia-journalism-review-sets-new-standards-for-biased-reporting/?__cf_chl_captcha_tk__=patrick.net

Columbia Journalism Review Sets New Standards For Biased Reporting

Consider a first principle of journalism, its purpose. Journalism is supposed to provide observed facts within a framework of objective reality. The “coloring” of facts to subtly shift opinion is not journalism—it is known amongst professional journalists as “framing bias.” Such bias slants the news via a filter distorted by the view of the reporter or organization. Framing bias is unvarnished intellectual dishonesty.

When this pledge uses the term “gun violence” it engages in framing bias. In fact, there is no such thing as a violent gun. Therefore, there is no such thing as “gun violence.” There certainly is criminal violence, but that is not the conclusion the CJR is pushing people to reach. ...

Journalism needs to return to fundamental fact reporting and truth telling. “News” media must:

(1) Report facts in an unbiased way. Cover the inconvenient truths.

(2) Fairly report positive as well as negative uses of guns, especially the legitimate, defensive and sporting uses of guns.

(3) Clearly separate opinion from fact, and clearly state the source of facts and the sponsors of organizations being sought for facts. Operations like The Trace, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Michael Bloomberg anti-gun enterprise, are not journalistic in nature, but are treated by CJR as if they are journalistic.

(4) Commit to reporting stories based on all of the facts, all facets of the gun industry, and the social utility of guns, the lopsided ethnicities of the people involved in gun abuse, and the steadfast refusal of the education establishment to cover even the most rudimentary aspects of gun safety, history or gun sports.

(5) Inform the public that police are under absolutely no legal duty to protect individual citizens. (e.g., Dial 911 and Die, Richard W. Stevens, Mazel Freedom Press, covering no-duty-to-protect statutes in all 50 states; Castle Rock v. Gonzalez (SCOTUS, 2005, no duty to enforce restraining order); Warren v. D.C. (1981, Police have no duty to protect an individual).

(6) Stop sensationalizing violence. Sign on to the Don’t Inspire Evil Initiative, and “Refrain from gratuitous or repetitious portrayal of mass murderers’ names and images.” –JPFO. Endless loops of these villains serves no one but the villains. Do not publicize the names of criminal perpetrators. “We must starve terrorists of the oxygen of publicity which they seek.” –Margaret Thatcher

Charles Heller, a founding member of the preeminent political lobby, The Arizona Citizens Defense League, responsible in large measure for that state’s consistent top national rank for gun rights, has been a journalist since running his high school’s 7,000-circ. newspaper, followed by employment with the Chicago Tribune and 23 years as a radio talk-show host in Tucson.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_breakingnews/washington-post-labeling-lab-leak-as-debunked-conspiracy-theory-was-wrong_3840960.html?utm_source=patrick.net&utm_medium=patrick.net&utm_campaign=patrick.net

Washington Post: Labeling Lab Leak as ‘Debunked Conspiracy Theory’ Was Wrong
BY ZACHARY STIEBER June 2, 2021

The Washington Post quietly has walked back its claims regarding the theory that the virus that causes COVID-19 escaped from a laboratory in Wuhan, China.

Of course they are not going to run a truthful headline, like "WE WERE LYING BECAUSE WE ARE WHORES FOR GLOBAL CORPORATIONS"

https://notthebee.com/article/wapo-stealth-edited-a-15-month-old-article-to-make-it-seem-like-they-hadnt-shut-down-the-wuhan-lab-theory

Something journalists refuse to report:

Patrick says

Something journalists refuse to report:

Nearly all the attacks on Asians are being perpetrated in large cities...NYC, SF, Atlanta, and Los Angeles...cities with massive homeless populations...by black homeless men.

I posted that on a local news article in the Facebook comments section. It got about 25 likes including several Asians. But literally zero reporting of that fact.

Another non news coverage I discovered. LA County homeless population is 65,000. City of Los Angeles homeless population is 41,000...2/3 of the total. Yet LA County is 10 million total population and city of LA is 4 million...40% of the total. If you look further, I’d bet anything that Long Beach and Santa Monica have another big chunk of the homeless. And furthermore the chronic homeless population in City of LA has exploded since 2013, coinciding with Eric Garcetti’s election as mayor.

However not one article...not one peep critical of Garcetti. Not anything in the news about City of LA’s failed policies. Garbagecetti just signed a budget with another billion dollars to throw at the homeless problem...$25k per homeless person.

WTF is going on here?!?!?!

https://greenwald.substack.com/p/yet-another-media-tale-trump-tear?token=patrick.net

Yet Another Media Tale -- Trump Tear-Gassed Protesters For a Church Photo Op -- Collapses

That the White House violently cleared Lafayette Park at Trump's behest was treated as unquestioned truth by most corporate media. Today it was revealed as a falsehood.

See also:

https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_breakingnews/police-didnt-clear-blm-protesters-from-park-last-year-for-trump-bible-photo-op-watchdog_3851786.html?utm_source=patrick.net&utm_medium=patrick.net&utm_campaign=patrick.net

https://babylonbee.com/news/new-york-times-relocates-offices-to-beijing-so-reporters-wont-have-to-be-triggered-by-american-flags

https://notthebee.com/article/remember-how-the-media-said-trump-cleared-out-protestors-with-tear-gas-so-he-could-have-a-photo-op-with-a-bible-yeah-that-never-happened

Remember how the media said Trump cleared out protesters with tear gas and rubber bullets for a Bible photo op? Yeah, turns out that never happened.

https://republicandaily.net/2021/06/australian-news-mocks-bidens-lapdog-journalists-at-cnn-for-pathetic-news-coverage/

“Nick, it’s not really journalism, is it?” Kenny continued. “They are really stenographers in a way, aren’t they? They are documenting history, but they aren’t being critical. With Trump, ultra-critical. Inflammatory in some instances.”

https://notthebee.com/article/austins-premier-newspaper-wouldnt-print-a-description-of-a-mass-shooter-because-hes-black

Austin's premier newspaper wouldn't print a description of a mass shooting suspect because he's black and it "could be harmful in perpetuating stereotypes"

https://notthebee.com/article/progessive-democratic-operative-in-san-francisco-caught-red-handed-stealing-signed-petitions-to-recall-the-school-board

Progressive Democratic operative caught red-handed stealing signed petitions to recall the San Fran school board, media silent on this particular story of voter suppression for some strange reason

PlanetMoron

Jun 14th, 2021 12:48 pm
I suppose that's one way to stop voter fraud:

Stop a vote from ever happening!

The incident took place May 30 as organizers were collecting signatures to petition for the recall of the San Francisco school board.

https://notthebee.com/article/what-media-bias

Here's a summary of how awful the media is in just two pictures, courtesy of Time:

https://twitter.com/ColumbiaBugle/status/1319091935924006912#m

The Columbia Bugle 🇺🇸
@ColumbiaBugle
22 Oct 2020
.@DarrenJBeattie: "We see these journalists are not even acting as meaningful journalists. What they're doing is acting as commissars & Neo-Stasi effectively in order to crush the rebellion of the American people against their corrupt ruling class."

Martin
@mbrochh
Jun 20
Replying to @PierreKory @Kevin_McKernan
Can’t force trace tokens and digital vaccination passes unti the entire population if you can just get rid of the flu by taking a simple medicine.

Patrick says

btw I checked, and he's been a director of BAE since 2015. Notice how they list his positions only up to 2015, excluding BAE? This article was written in 2019.



There's nothing wrong with posting his opinion and quoting him, but they NEED to CLEARLY tell readers about the HUGE conflict of interest, but instead they clearly intentionally hid it, which is what makes this clearly military industrial complex corruption.

paid propaganda outlet.

https://reclaimthenet.org/hong-kong-outlet-apple-daily-succumbs-to-the-wrath-of-the-ccp-shuts-down/

The Hong Kong-based pro-democracy news outlet Apple Daily has been forced to shut down after a police raid last week that saw five of its executives arrested. The paper had been under increased scrutiny since last year after the arrest of its owner and Beijing critic Jimmy Lai.

Apple Daily will distribute its last print edition on Thursday. The 26-year-old tabloid will also stop publishing online from midnight June 23, and its website will no longer be accessible from Saturday.

“Thank you to all our readers, subscribers and clients and Hong Kong for 26 years of immense love and support. Here we say goodbye, take care of yourselves,” Apple Daily said in a statement.

The outlet’s demise further raises concerns about freedom of the press, freedom of expression and other rights in the former British colony, which was handed back to Beijing in 1997 and its freedoms have increasingly suffered in China’s grip.

America is halfway to this unfortunate state already.

I’m genuinely surprised the CEO’s and VP’s of these media organizations…not to mention the reporters themselves….haven’t been physically assaulted. Their lies are so egregious that they ought to be considered traitors to the American people. If I was ever to meet one in real life I’d be very hard pressed not to jump on the person and just pummel away.

I’ve always wondered how these people live their lives. I know Chris Cuomo had a very public meltdown where he said he was tired of being yelled at and called a liar in punlic(not enough so to make him change though). I can’t imagine they socialize much or go out in public.

It’s very odd. Normal local media members mix with the hoi polloi. Jim Hill was a long time sports news guy in LA snd it was well known that he hung out at strip clubs, particularly Spearmint Rhino. A few others are very visible. But those guys aren’t really distorting the news. The sports writer from the LA Times for years…TJ Simmmers was an idiot, but he’d respond if you emailed him and again was a very public guy. But now, you never see LA Times reporters anywhere. They should be super visible in the South Bay where the LA Times is now located…and they aren’t. I really don’t understand how people live as hermits, but I think that’s exactly what the media members now do.

https://asiatimes.com/2021/06/hk-media-erase-their-archives-amid-rising-arrests/

Since editors and reporters from outlets other than Fox News and OAN are criminally insane alien agents of the PRC, there is no reason not to shoot them in the face at will. Except that the courts and cops are controlled by Soros. Our only hope is that the next Jan 6 tour of the Capitol lasts for 100 years in which all reporters are dismembered and eaten by patriots' pets and Fox News and OAN take control of all media.

SumatraBosch says

Our only hope is that the next Jan 6 tour of the Capitol lasts for 100 years in which all reporters are dismembered and eaten by patriots' pets and Fox News and OAN take control of all media.

Are you kidding me? FOX is no better than the rest. Find that Weapons of Mass Destruction program in Iraq yet? FOX "news" claimed they did HUNDREDS of times. They are propagandists too.


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You know who is in that fucking audience? Our nation's "top journalists". The reason they are LAUGHING is because they knew damned well the weapons of mass destruction program claims of the Bush administration were bullshit - they're laughing people were naive enough to ever fucking believe them. They are professional propagandists.

Patrick says

Columbia Journalism Review Abandons Neutrality – Adopts Gun-Control Advocacy

https://dailycaller.com/2021/05/26/korwin-columbia-journalism-review-abandons-neutrality-adopts-gun-control-advocacy/

"Reporters" can no longer tell the difference between journalism and propaganda.

Of course they can.

They're not stupid, they are just propagandists, but it's not like they can be honest and just state outright they are producing propaganda. These people aren't making "mistakes", they are lying.

Patrick says

Columbia Journalism Review Abandons Neutrality – Adopts Gun-Control Advocacy

I will buy Walther PPK today because of that!

SumatraBosch says

Since editors and reporters from outlets other than Fox News and OAN are criminally insane alien agents of the PRC, there is no reason not to shoot them in the face at will.

Why, I think AF is actually back!

Welcome back @SumatraBosch

Patrick says

Why, I think AF is actually back!

Welcome back @SumatraBosch

I missed refreshing jokes by AF. @SumatraBosch

https://www.ammoland.com/2021/07/media-malpractice-in-2021/

Media Malpractice in 2021

... In theory, the news media was supposed to inform us so we could be responsible members of a democracy. In fact, the media delivers click-bait sensationalism and 20+ minutes of commercials each hour. On top of that, we have a world of information in our pockets. That was supposed to leave us better informed. Instead, we’re fed corporate propaganda and told what we “need” to buy. I’ve watched the media create the false impression that gun owners in the United States are dangerous. Those media inconsistencies are easy to find.

One obvious example is that the MSM calls a gun a “patrol rifle” or a “personal defense weapon” when a government employee carries it, but they call the same piece of plastic, aluminum, and steel an assault weapon if it is in my wife’s hands. We’re told that a gun is completely ineffective to affect government behavior, and yet the same gun is “much too dangerous” to be left in the hands of honest civilians. It seems the media, and some government officials, want it both ways.

The media’s lies extend beyond the hardware and include the nature of gun owners themselves.

Yes, the media lies to us about who owns guns in the United States. I think I know why. The media stereotyped gun owners for years. They call us old-white-rednecks, yet most new gun owners are women and minorities. For obvious political reasons, the media doesn’t want us to know what today’s gun owners look like. Times change and the media doesn’t want minority women to know that they are the fastest-growing segment of the gun-owning population. In 2020 and 2021, more minority women are curious about guns as they see their friends become gun owners and take training. That is called a preference cascade. The media lies to us so we won’t know what is possible for us. ...

Mass media pummels us with horrific images after a mass murder. They seldom show us the mass murders that were stopped by armed civilians. The media never shows us the good news to the same extent as the bad. One reason is that the media has to sell outrage to capture our attention. The truth is too dull, and outrage is the only way we will sit through 20 minutes of advertisements an hour.

The media tells us about the robbery at the convenience store. The media seldom shows us the story of the armed store clerk who chased away the two robbers late at night by himself. The media should give us a sense of proportion. Instead, the media feeds us sensationalized headlines. Each year, we defend ourselves millions of times with a firearm while dozens of us become the victim in a mass murder. You’d never know that from the media coverage. The media doesn’t want us to know that most robbers would rather run than get shot. That story doesn’t fit the biased narrative that the media is trying to sell.

Media bias against honest gun owners is fueled by both the preferences of the advertisers and by the political bias of the news editors. We can blame a failure of imagination on their part. They can’t recognize when guns save lives. Our social elites simply can’t imagine defending themselves, so they are blind to it. Self-defense never happens according to their view of the world. When it comes to personal safety, that is what they pay the private security guards at their condo to take care of. That is why their office has a security guard at the front door. If you wanted protection, then you’d do what they do and live where they live.. or so they think.

Since they can’t imagine protecting themselves, they think guns ought to be outlawed. They can’t admit that licensed gun owners who concealed carry are more law-abiding and non-violent than the police. It is outside their experience, and we might as well tell them that gun owners are from the moon.

Before we gun owners feel special, the elites don’t know people who own a pickup truck either. The news is corrupted by the personal and corporate bias of the news organizations. That would be of academic interest, except the media’s bias is getting our children killed.

The media elites ignore that mass murders usually occur where guns are banned. Mass murderers deliberately attack us where you and I are disarmed. We are disarmed in “gun-free” zones because we obey the law. From the media point of view, more disarmed civilians mean more stories of mass murder and more commercials for auto insurance. What is worse is that there were over 80 copycat murder plots after the mass murder at the high school in Columbine, Colorado.

These murderers said, in effect,
“I want to have may face and my name in the news. I want everyone to know who I was.
“I want the same multi-million dollar publicity campaign that the media gave the last mass murderer.”

and the media was only too eager to give them what they wanted.
We had to coin a new term to describe this media phenomenon; it is called “celebrity murder-suicide”. The media lies to make money and they lie to feel good about themselves, when in fact, they help drive the mass murder that gets us killed.

Rb6d says

Patrick says

Why, I think AF is actually back!

Welcome back @SumatraBosch

I missed refreshing jokes by AF. @SumatraBosch

AF was my hero. For a while he was one of the main drawing points of Patnet. His sense of humor was not for everyone.

We all know cannibal anarchy is coming. AF gave us good advice on nutrition and fields of fire.

Alas, nobody, not even AF, knows WHEN cannibal anarchy will arrive.