20
0

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


               
2021 Apr 10, 10:02pm   158,674 views  1,457 comments

by Patrick   follow (59)  

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.


« First        Comments 1,419 - 1,457 of 1,457        Search these comments

1419   MolotovCocktail   2025 Jul 17, 6:08pm  

Wow! New Republic actually pubbed an article with a truthful headline!


1420   MolotovCocktail   2025 Jul 26, 7:50pm  

Not just American 'journalism'.


1422   Bd6r   2025 Jul 31, 1:08pm  

@Patrick,

Thimerasol (in your June 27 comment) is ethylmercury nitrophenoxide. Structurally somewhat related to methylmercury which caused Minamata accident.

Try reading Wikipedia article about thimerasol, it is best intellectual whiplash I have seen lately. This compound is at the same time safe as a vaccine preservative AND highly toxic and bioaccumulating.

Also I can not quote only a part of your comment on phone, when I select it I get message that quote is too large even if I select one word.
1423   Patrick   2025 Jul 31, 1:47pm  

@Bd6r

Thanks. I know about that bug, but haven't figured out how to fix it yet.
1428   Patrick   2025 Aug 29, 10:28am  

https://www.kunstler.com/p/the-war-on-reality-is-over


The New York Times pretends that all this is “a mystery” because to tell the truth would inculpate them in the ongoing criminal racketeering operation of their patron, the Democratic Party.

They all know what the truth is in this matter: that Robert Westman became insane, at least in his time of puberty, possibly earlier, and that his parents resorted to persuading their child that he was born in the wrong body — as the trendy theory goes — to remedy his psychological distress. He was thereafter influenced to play-act as a female. Possibly, he was induced to go through some stage of medical “treatment” to supposedly advance his transition to the opposite sex — for instance, a hormone regimen. This has not yet been reported. (Has it even been investigated by police or the news media?)

Of course, “gender-affirming medical care” is a vicious fraud, as is the preposterous idea of “sexual assignment at birth” (as if it is some kind of error-ridden clerical function). Males cannot be changed into females no matter how much their hormones are altered or how much surgery they endure. It is all just costuming and makeup, to an extreme degree, to enhance the game of pretend. It is also bound to be nightmarishly disappointing to the person undergoing such malign rigors. ...

Westman evinced stark rage and despair over the poor choice he was induced to make at a time in his life before the judgment region of his brain had fully developed. “I’m tired of being trans,” he wrote. “I wish I had never brainwashed myself.” It was hardly his own fault, though. He was pushed to do it by his own family and strongly supported by the culture that surrounded him in Tim Walz’s “trans refuge state” of Minnesota — the state that also gave us George Floyd, the fake martyr to black victimhood, whose death provoked a years’ long national race-hustle.
1429   Patrick   2025 Sep 5, 12:30pm  

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/smith-and-lesson-friday-september/comment/152680713


Diana (Somewhere in Maryland)

The media is of course ignoring the biggest bombshell from yesterday: Senator Ron Johnson holding up a VAERS report admitting 30k died worldwide right away or within two days of getting a Covid shot. Absolute crickets!!
1430   HeadSet   2025 Sep 5, 2:39pm  

Patrick says

The media is of course ignoring the biggest bombshell from yesterday: Senator Ron Johnson holding up a VAERS report admitting 30k died worldwide right away or within two days of getting a Covid shot. Absolute crickets!!

The major media gets something like one third its advertising dollars from Pharma. Maybe we will see more honest reporting when we bring back that law prohibiting Pharma to advertise.
1431   Ceffer   2025 Sep 5, 2:43pm  

Remember they also had the VAERS deal where any occurrence within two weeks of the vaccine weren't counted. So, anybody who dropped dead within two weeks or had two weeks of severe illness were never counted. Plus, VAERS is a small fraction of incidents, since doctors simply won't spend their time interviewing complications then spending 30 minutes unpaid time to write and file a report: not enough hours in the day.
1432   Ceffer   2025 Sep 5, 2:49pm  

Patrick says


Westman evinced stark rage and despair over the poor choice he was induced to make at a time in his life before the judgment region of his brain had fully developed.

Changing the sex of the child is the mildest form of Satanic sacrifice of the child. The family were Intel, so it kind of makes sense. Instead of sacrificing them outright, they do the Baphomet bisex tango with the kiddies. Intel families are high incidence of Satanic ritual abuse and Moloch/Baphomet/Lucifer worship (usually disguised as atheism or 'existentialism').
1433   Patrick   2025 Sep 7, 1:56pm  

https://x.com/i/status/1940467072615735474



Not that I agree with it all, but it's well done.
1443   MolotovCocktail   2025 Sep 9, 11:52am  




NY Times Speaks!


1447   MolotovCocktail   2025 Sep 9, 5:35pm  

Notice how they always trot out the aliens when shit gets difficult?



https://x.com/dom_lucre/status/1965480403520864425
1450   Patrick   2025 Sep 17, 11:11am  

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/freeze-out-wednesday-september-17


Yesterday, the UK Guardian ran a story headlined, “ ‘Alarming but not unexpected’: NYT lawsuit just latest example of Trump’s presidential lawfare.” President Trump filed a new defamation lawsuit, this time against the New York Times, alleging $15 billion in damages— which exceeds the Times’ entire net worth.

Apparently, even applying its incredibly broad definition of ‘expert,’ the Guardian was still unable to find a single ‘expert’ who liked Trump’s lawsuit or thought it had any merit. (Portlanders: in other words, the article was completely one-sided, violating who knows how many journalistic ethics rules. But never mind.)

Trump’s new 85-page case was filed in the sunny climes of Tampa, Florida. The next step will be for the Times’ lawyers to move to dismiss, probably arguing that President Trump failed to sufficiently state a claim for defamation. But, as the story admitted, so far, three major news platforms have settled similar cases with Trump for millions.

Call it turnabout or FAFO, but it’s fun. The Times used to throw office parties whenever a new lawsuit was filed against President Trump. But now, he files one case against them, and you’d think it was the End of Democracy or something.
1457   Patrick   2025 Dec 12, 11:36am  

https://www.kunstler.com/p/can-anyone-believe-anything


Do the managers of The New York Times actually still believe the Russia Collusion story they were awarded a Pulitzer for, or their 1619 Project Woke-rewrite of US history? Or their mulish defense of the Covid vaccines. Or their florid esteem for the leadership of “Joe Biden.” Or are they simply ruled by blind Trump derangement? (Or do they receive instructions from nefarious others about how to report and opine on things?)

« First        Comments 1,419 - 1,457 of 1,457        Search these comments

Please register to comment:

api   best comments   contact   latest images   memes   one year ago   users   suggestions   gaiste