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


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2021 Apr 10, 10:02pm   129,220 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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696   Patrick   2023 Feb 14, 1:21pm  

https://slaynews.com/news/ex-msnbc-host-says-network-made-her-get-stories-on-hillary-clinton-approved-by-president-after-she-criticized-hillary/


Ex-MSNBC Host Says She Had to ‘Get Permission’ from Network to ‘Criticize Hillary Clinton’

Former MSNBC host Krystal Ball came clean to podcaster Joe Rogan about how the far-left network tried to control her coverage of Hillary Clinton.

Ball says she was called into the office by network bosses after she criticized Clinton.

She was told would have to “get permission” to “criticize Hillary” and had to have all commentary on the twice-failed Democrat presidential candidate approved by the network president.
697   Patrick   2023 Feb 18, 2:46pm  

https://slaynews.com/news/bill-maher-comes-clean-about-media-nyt-is-a-very-woke-newspaper-not-a-balanced-place/


HBO’s Bill Maher called out The New York Times over its extremely biased coverage of transgender issues.

Maher warned his liberal viewers that the NYT it is not a balanced newsroom and is “a very woke newspaper.”

“They presented the other side, shall we say, in the trans debate, and they’re a very woke newspaper now, and so, there was a huge pushback internally,” Maher said.

“A lot of the, I think a majority of the people who work at the Times basically said, we can’t even present this other side.

“And the other side is not crazy.

“We’re talking about something that is very new, we’re talking about something that involves children, we’re talking about something that involves permanently disfiguring your body or changing your body, which has great ramifications for your physical health in general. ...

“But it just shows you what the newsroom is today.

“The Times’ newsroom is not a balanced place.”
704   Patrick   2023 Feb 28, 7:39pm  

https://notthebee.com/article/a-35-year-old-man-and-a-15-year-old-were-arrested-for-shooting-9-children


A 35-year-old and a 15-year-old were arrested for shooting 9 CHILDREN at a Georgia gas station 10 days ago. Why haven't you heard about this mass shooting?


The media ignores shootings and other murders by black men.
707   Patrick   2023 Mar 3, 2:19pm  

https://www.foxnews.com/media/credibility-crisis-npr-insisted-covid-originated-naturally-dismissing-lab-leak-theory-nonsense


Credibility crisis: NPR insisted COVID originated naturally by dismissing lab leak theory as nonsense
NPR painted lab leak theory as a debunked conspiracy embraced for political purposes


NPR is not journalism at all.
708   AmericanKulak   2023 Mar 3, 2:47pm  

NPR's archived piece in case they edit it:

https://archive.fo/NI5a4
709   richwicks   2023 Mar 3, 7:24pm  

AmericanKulak says

NPR's archived piece in case they edit it:

https://archive.fo/NI5a4


Nobody cares. All the media lies constantly, and unendingly. There's ONE media outlet that truthfully reported on Hunter Biden's laptops - he had THREE of them. The rest, just ignore. They won't report on important news, they will lie about important news.

I used to have a hobby of debunking corporate news lies, but it's hardly much of a hobby when everything they say is a lie and that's where we are now.

Which news organizations report truthfully on the Russo/Ukraine war? Who ones told you that it was a CIA coup? How many of them have done a story on the civil war in Ukraine that has been going on since 2014? Who reports on Syria now, or Libya? Hardly anybody mentions East Palestine, Ohio now. News media is just distraction and garbage.
710   Patrick   2023 Mar 5, 8:01pm  




Given that Twitter is still banning for stating obviously true facts like "Trans is mental illness" it seems like the government/woke/corporate evil is still controlling Twitter as well.
712   Patrick   2023 Mar 6, 8:33pm  

https://nypost.com/2023/03/06/russell-brand-rips-msnbc-for-propagandist-nut-crackery/


Russell Brand blasted leftist news network MSNBC for its “propagandist nut-crackery” in a searing rant Saturday, which has gone viral.

The popular podcaster was met with wild applause on “Real Time with Bill Maher” Saturday when he accused fellow guest John Heilemann, a political analyst for MSNBC and NBC, of hypocrisy for attacking rival outlets.

“I have to say that it’s disingenuous to claim that the biases that are exhibited on Fox News are any different than the biases exhibited on MSNBC,” Brand, 47, told Heilemann.

“I’ve been on that MSNBC, mate — it was propagandist nut-crackery on there.” ...

Defending his network, Heilemann asked for a “specific example of an MSNBC correspondent or anchor being on television saying something they knew was false.”

Brand noted the “ludicrous, outrageous criticism of Joe Rogan around Ivermectin” and “deliberately referring to it as a horse medicine when they know this is an effective medicine.”

And “what of Rachel Maddow turning up on the TV saying, ‘If you take this vaccine, you’re not gonna get it’ when it hadn’t been clinically trialed for transmission?” he asked.
713   Patrick   2023 Mar 7, 10:34am  

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/ex-cnn-president-jeff-zucker-ordered-staff-ignore-lab-leak-theory


Former CNN president Jeff Zucker ordered network employees not to investigate the Covid-19 lab leak theory because he considered it a "Trump talking point," a "well-placed" CNN insider told Fox News Digital on Monday.
714   AmericanKulak   2023 Mar 7, 10:35am  

Patrick says

Former CNN president Jeff Zucker ordered network employees not to investigate the Covid-19 lab leak theory because he considered it a "Trump talking point," a "well-placed" CNN insider told Fox News Digital on Monday.



722   HeadSet   2023 Mar 29, 7:39am  

Surprised they did not say "MAGA" because of the red cap.
724   Patrick   2023 Mar 31, 10:48am  

From 1973 OVERVIEW by Frank Zappa

Lyrics of

"I'm The Slime"

[backing vocals Tina Turner]

I am gross and perverted

I'm obsessed 'n deranged

I have existed for years

But very little has changed

I'm the tool of the Government

And industry too

For I am destined to rule

And regulate you

I may be vile and pernicious

But you can't look away

I make you think I'm delicious

With the stuff that I say

I'm the best you can get

Have you guessed me yet?

I'm the slime oozin' out

From your TV set

You will obey me while I lead you

And eat the garbage that I feed you

Until the day that we don't need you

Don't go for help... no one will heed you

Your mind is totally controlled

It has been stuffed into my mold

And you will do as you are told

Until the rights to you are sold

That's right, folks...

Don't touch that dial

Well, I am the slime from your video

Oozin' along on your livin' room floor

I am the slime from your video

Can't stop the slime, people, lookit me go
728   AD   2023 Apr 2, 12:03pm  

That is because mainstream journalists are compromised and biased.

They can't separate reporting the news from their left wing ideology and loyalty to the Democrat party.

Just like career bureaucrats in the DOJ and FBI as well as rest of federal bureaucracy are biased.

The left wing is working like a virus as it is spreading to every institution from the media to the Pentagon.

They will keep some Republicans around as the token opposition to give perception or illusion the USA is not a one party plutocracy.

.
734   Patrick   2023 Apr 8, 11:14pm  

https://dailycaller.com/2023/04/07/matt-taibbi-rips-msnbc-host-for-doing-nothing-but-vomit-up-fake-russian-stories-before-host-ends-segment/


“The hilarity of this coming from MSNBC which did nothing but vomit up fake Russian hit stories that came straight from the FBI for six consecutive years, you guys still haven’t apologized for it.”
735   Patrick   2023 Apr 8, 11:24pm  

https://slaynews.com/news/cnn-downplays-murder-bob-lee-san-francisco-mostly-peaceful-homicide/


CNN Downplays Murder of Bob Lee in San Francisco: ‘Mostly Peaceful Homicide’

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