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


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2021 Apr 10, 10:02pm   128,327 views  1,301 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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534   Patrick   2022 Sep 14, 7:55pm  

https://www.westernjournal.com/new-york-times-reaps-sowed-1300-employees-refuse-return-office-lambaste-execs-meager-perk/?seyid=21394

Hopefully the slithery mouthpiece for the murderous mafia in DC is rotting from within and will soon crumble.
538   Patrick   2022 Sep 22, 10:14am  

https://spectatorworld.com/topic/ap-associated-press-mention-robert-telles-murder/


AP conveniently forgets to mention that politician accused of murder is a Democrat
Everyone makes mistakes, OK?! ...

AP’s coverage, which amounted to just over 900 words, simply referred to Telles as a “local elected official.” ...

Following a public backlash over the AP’s omission, changes were later made to the article without an editor’s note. These included identifying Telles as a Democrat in the second paragraph and noting that “Telles lost the Democratic party primary in June” towards the middle. But as a news wire service provides stories for multiple outlets, it was too late and the original story was spread far and wide.

Twitter came to the rescue and offered AP some journalism tips. One said: “If he was a republican you’d have that as your first word in your header.” Another added, “I’m sure it was just an oversight, but the @AP forgot to mention that Robert Telles is a Democrat, with a violent past that the party overlooked.”
541   Patrick   2022 Sep 28, 2:11pm  


Ezra Levant 🍁🚛
@ezralevant
5h
Apparently $1.5B/year of taxpayers money isn't enough for the government journalists at Trudeau's CBC state broadcaster. Trudeau actually gave them a $30M pandemic bonus. They're not journalists anymore; they never were. I think a more accurate word for them is "presstitutes."

Holly Doan
@hollyanndoan
10h
#CBC faces mandatory disclosure of salaries under Broadcasting Act amendments proposed @SenateCA. CBC paid $30.4 million in pandemic bonuses while petitioning for more subsidies.
“I do have a concern about transparency.”
547   Erasmus   2022 Oct 1, 4:25pm  

American journalism was dead a long time ago but we did not notice it until Trump was elected (and that s regardless if you like or dislike Trump … he at least was able to shine a light on the fraud the media industrial complex was and is perpetrating on the American public) … now I believe there is light at the end of the tunnel and we are living a rebirth of how the truth is being communicated … and I like it
549   Erasmus   2022 Oct 1, 10:06pm  

Because it does not fit the narrative …. Because the narrative is to divide and conquer by supporting the bad guys against the good guys and infuriating the good guys in hope to spark a civil war … and finally because communism only knows chaos and destruction
563   Patrick   2022 Oct 8, 11:46am  

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11293487/Democrats-operating-series-51-fake-news-sites-pushing-left-wing-stories-toss-states.html


Democrats are operating a series of 51 'fake news' websites pushing left-wing stories in toss-up states in a bid to turn the midterms in their favor, shocking investigation finds
A new report from Axios details 51 fake news websites that promote liberal political causes
All of the websites, which have popped up in the past 12 months, are based in what are considered to be swing states
Some of the publications are the Milwaukee Metro Times, the Tri-City Record and the Mecklenburg Herald
567   Patrick   2022 Oct 16, 11:27am  

jykiodfgr says

The stock market is not going to crash in a hyperinflation.


I think it's already crashing partly in response to our high inflation rate.

People find they simply cannot buy as much as before, so company earnings go down, and stocks go down.

On top of that, the higher interest rates we have now make stocks less attractive even at their previous earnings level.
568   Patrick   2022 Oct 16, 11:46am  




Might have posted this one before.
569   Patrick   2022 Oct 16, 2:51pm  

https://markcrispinmiller.substack.com/p/why-did-the-new-york-times-not-translate


Why did the New York Times not translate those two protest banners pulled down by the CCP?
You'd think they would, what with their (nominal) devotion to the cause of "freedom-and-democracy" (in some places, but not others: including, evidently, China—and, in fact, the USA) ...

Here, then, is the translation that the Times did not provide (but that a former student sent one of my colleagues):

“No Covid test, we want to eat. No restrictions, we want freedom. No lies, we want dignity. No Cultural Revolution, we want reform. No leaders, we want votes. By not being slaves, we can be citizens."

"Go on strike at school and work, remove dictator and national traitor Xi Jinping."

Why, then, no full translation in the Times? Did its editors consider one not “fit to print” because it doesn’t really matter what the protest said? Or did they decide that that full protest wasn’t “fit to print” because it matters greatly, and not just to the Chinese people? After all, would not that first, and longer, protest resonate with millions in the world’s “democracies,” who also want not to be slaves, but citizens, respected by their governments? Perhaps somebody at the Times (or CIA) did not want that full protest sparking “protest chatter” over here (and elsewhere in the West)—“chatter” which our “Internet censors” would then have to “quell.”

Was that full protest translated anywhere? If so, please let us know. In any case, let’s do our best to share it far and wide.

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