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


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2021 Apr 10, 10:02pm   129,443 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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667   Patrick   2023 Jan 5, 11:57am  

https://metatron.substack.com/p/mainstream-media-is-starting-to-get


Mainstream Media is Starting to Get Squeaky Bum
Time to turn off the comments sections or start reporting honest information and cease with the government propaganda!

Joel Smalley
7 hr ago

Last night I heard from someone operating in much higher circles than me with respect to the COVID scam. He informed me that this is the talk in newsrooms all around the UK:

There is discordant amounts of public commentary, speaking against the narrative. We (the editorial team) cannot allow our paper to fall behind public insight and opinion.

So, they’ve got a bit of a quandry, haven’t they? The tide of public opinion has already turned against them. To continue on their current course of ignoring the facts in favour of the false narrative is just going to make things even more difficult for them to ever regain public trust. To continue the analogy, they are “swimming against the tide”. Or, as I have to tell my kids quite often, when you’re in a hole and want to get out, the first thing you do is stop digging!

And then to prove the point, my inbox is full of links to this Daily Mail article, trying to denigrate the courageous Member of Parliament for North West Leicestershire, Andrew Brigden for daring to try and bring public and political attention to the evident harms of the mass mRNA experiment, especially to children who are at zero risk from the disease:




I wouldn’t subject you to the torment of having to read the pathetic attempt at “journalism” but you should take a look at the comments section!

Take a look now before they disable it!

Propaganda works really well.

Until it doesn’t.

And then those that peddled it suffer the consequences. Let’s hope they are very dire because they have been trying to hold back this tide for too long!
668   Patrick   2023 Jan 5, 11:59am  

Some of the comments from the above article, probably soon to be deleted by minions of the Pfizer mafia:


The comments below have not been moderated.

Lisa V. Holcomb, Creswell, United States, 35 minutes ago

Your readers have spoken. Why is it that we have all read the studies and know the statistics, but you, the author of this piece, have not done any background research before writing it? Or, is it that Pfizer pays for you to write stories that make those look bad who question the "acceptable narrative"?

Ben Penner, Fort McMurray, Canada, 1 hour ago

The covid injections kill and maim. Mr. Bridgen is a hero to challenge the narrative!

Eveknewbest, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 2 hours ago

It was reported in the US that 40% of medical care workers were NOT vaccinated. What does THAT tell you? These are the very people who you would think could not WAIT to get the vaccine.

Vax aka a bio-weapon, London, United Kingdom, 3 hours ago

Do not give this disgusting "organisation" money let them go bust. They will after Nuremberg 2!

Takeitonthechin, Cumbria, United Kingdom, 3 hours ago

Wall Street Journal.Are the vaccines destroying immune systems? Are the vaccines causing the variants? Keep up DM

Chris Jones, Republic of Wales, United Kingdom, 3 hours ago

He's absolutely right of course, well done him. Ban the experimental jab and put all those in authority who pushed it on trial

Takeitonthechin, Cumbria, United Kingdom, 3 hours ago

Wall Street Journal Are the vaccines causing the variants? Idaho study of 52000 adults the more boosters the more infections

Takeitonthechin, Cumbria, United Kingdom, 3 hours ago

There really wont be enough rope for those complicit

William Johanson, Seattle, 3 hours ago

The jabs are part of a long-planned depop program of the controlling "elite". The carbon they want to reduce is you.

Stands in Rain, Civitas Dei, United Kingdom, 4 hours ago

La Trahison des Clercs! J'Accuse! This is not the 4th Estate, but the Servile State!. There has been a mountain of scientific evidence piling up in the reputable journals and official stats publications about the potential harms of these 'vaccines, and even the patent holders of these 'vaccines' have had to reveal their own data that confirms what Bridgen has said in general. This has been, according to many reputable scientists and doctors, the largest medical catastrophes in history. Je suis dgout!! C'est abonimable! You are finally revealing what most journalists really are: at best functional sociopaths, and at worst I will not say.

Raf M, London, United Kingdom, 4 hours ago

How about peddling some real journalism? Oh, it's ok, I've just seen some of your hard hitting headlines in the right hand column - EastEnders Melissa Suffield proudly flaunts her curves in racy pink lingerie. A Pulitzer prize surely awaits...

nathomesaip, Norwich, United Kingdom, 5 hours ago

This is not journalism it is attempting to destroy those speaking the truth. D Mail lost all credibility years ago. Disgraceful rag.

flybunny, Atlanta, United States, 5 hours ago

You wont do proper journalism because you accept money from Big Pharma. Time to have some integrity and tell the truth.

LesleySG, Plymouth, United Kingdom, 5 hours ago

Why are you not publishing all the comments?

Jenniffer Garcia, Teignmouth, United Kingdom, 6 hours ago

I think it is time our MSM started considering the overwhelming evidence that has been piling up elsewhere on this subject - which they are obviously aware of as their so called 'journalists' spend all their time these days only scouring social media and other sites to glean 'news' - or are they are too fearful of printing it themselves having succumbed to the pressure and financial reward to only print the 'official' narrative...?

docross, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 6 hours ago

Instead of parroting the "safe and effective" narrative, you should do some proper journalism- look at the data from VAERS (USA), yellow card (UK) and EUDRA Vigilance (EU) where you will find that the adverse reactions and deaths from the Covid "vaccines" outnumber those for all other vaccines for the last 12 years! You cannot hide this from your readers, more and more of whom are waking up to this unfolding public health disaster.

Otaiosurgeon, Dorchester, United Kingdom, 6 hours ago

The truth is out there, but you are not.

ToneyMedia, Salina, United States, 7 hours ago

I live in the U.S. Previously, I lived in Cornwall. I know a bit of Brit. Expecting the Daily Pale to be "serious" has long been an oxymoron. This is journalism at its absolute worse, with is right on par with most U.S. media.

Rachel2525, Northallerton, United Kingdom, 7 hours ago

The views expessed by users need to be reflected by the MailOnline or you are not doing your job.

Rachel2525, Northallerton, United Kingdom, 7 hours ago

The views submitted by users ought to be reflected in Mallonline content, or you are just failing comletely to do your job.

Ian Parker, Cobham, 7 hours ago

There is now mountainous evidence that the vaccines are harmful and ineffective; the data screams it as do several studies. As I write this, the latest data shows an incredible 26% jump in excess deaths for the latest week (to 23 December). The reality is that Bridgen did not go anywhere near far enough. Pfizer's own data submitted to the FDA showed beyond all doubt that the vaccines were dangerous; they were approved despite the data not because of it. As for the risk to children, it is again beyond debate The vaccine link to myocarditis is well established - just one of the hideous effects, of course. With regard to just myocarditis, a study in Thailand found a staggering 1 in 43 vaxxed children had induced heart inflammation. A recent study from the US found that 1/3 of vaxxed adolescents had circulating S1 part of spike proteins bound to antibodies up to 3 weeks after second dose. Those with circulating whole spike proteins (not bound to antibodies) almost all had myocarditis.

Marius Manea, Bucharest, Romania, 7 hours ago

A pathetic attempt at journalism. You will pay for your crimes, together with the paid shills from big pharma. Time is ticking.

RosMaidment, Slough, United Kingdom, 8 hours ago

Extraordinary comment from the Journal of Medical Ethics that as young adults dont often go to hospital with covid, therefore it is not the right metric! The proportion of of young people unable to attend college because of adverse events is much harder to measure but it is similarly likely to exceed those sick from covid. As for mental health, try asking a healthy young athlete about their mental health if they have myocarditis and are told they may never play sport again.

The good wife, Durham, 12 hours ago

Remember this is not a vaccine, its experimental gene therapy, the aftermath from these jabs could be years down the line

Angus MacFarlane, Aberdeen, United Kingdom, 16 hours ago

I thought that it had long been established that the vaccine poses a greater risk to children than does the disease. What, then, is the point of the vaccine?

jtls0492, TAUNTON, United Kingdom, 18 hours ago

What absurd double speak is this from the BMJ? If something does more harm than good then that's by definition unsafe. And those 'university medical chiefs' are in essence claiming 'not missing class' is worth the risk of heart injury?? And no, young people don't get severely ill from Covid any more they do the flu or a cold. They are clearly getting worried now, addressing Bridgen directly.

FenrirWolf, Valhalla, United Kingdom, 19 hours ago

The only thing keeping this going is money and a cult-like worship of a shot which failed to do everything we were told it would do, people still get infected, still transmit covid and still die of it, the shots have proven not to be 'safe & effective' as claimed and reporting data shows much higher incidences of serious side effects than all genine vaccines of the previous 30 years combined. Time to get real and be honest, we should all want better regulation and actually reliable treatments available, not settle religiously for something that under any other circumstance would fail trials or been withdrawn long before now.

Dave R, Derbyshire, United Kingdom, 19 hours ago

Hes the only one speaking out on this obviousness. Who cares what the paid up shills in the BMJ bleat?

Adam, Sheffield, United Kingdom, 20 hours ago

There is no risk to children from Covid. There is a small risk with the jabs. Ergo not worth the risk

Samuck Teelack, Bangkok, Thailand, 20 hours ago

Looks like those who fell for the propaganda are now in minority. mRNA are not vaccines. Maybe in denial after the so willingly rolled their sleeves up.

choosing to join, Bournemouth, United Kingdom, 21 hours ago

He is backed up by amongst many others Dr Aseem Malhotra - NHS Consultant Cardiologist - MSM seriously do you job and present the evidence and story as a serious matter.

BuntyRoberts, SS Nostromo, Wallis And Futuna, 21 hours ago

Kids do not need these jabs......I repeat kids do not need these jabs. Their chances of dying from Covid are 0.003%....that's tiny......yet they want to inject them (repeatedly) with experimental mRNA injections. Dunno if it's about pharma profits or Digital ID but it's not about a virus

gallagj, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 21 hours ago

The man is a legend. Shame on this once great newspaper for this tinpot article.

The good wife, Durham, 22 hours ago

Not many like him, brave man. Isnt it staring people in the face, surely they all cant be blind to reality. Maybe they have their noses in the trough.

Stephen Frost, London, United Kingdom, 22 hours ago

why have you not published my comment?

Boberto, London, 22 hours ago

This MP is a hero and one of the few attempting to bring this compete scandal to a halt. This is an extremely nefarious scandal and there are going to be high consequences for these perpetrators of this so called Vaccine

Just me 70, willenhall, United Kingdom, 22 hours ago

How can the Mail have such disregard for the views of its readers?

Just me 70, willenhall, United Kingdom, 23 hours ago

They are no use to kids - that is for sure

SeanL, London, 23 hours ago

Good for this MP a lone voice of truth.His colleagues will come to rue their complicity in this enormity. The facts have been in the public domain for long enough now.No public figure with an ounce of integrity can remain oblivious without being complicit.As injury/death toll mounts, repercussions will be huge..

Ron, Leeds, 23 hours ago

He is quite correct. scientists expected curatorial damage from untested vaccination.

Karimayoubi, Northampton, 23 hours ago

Between the US, UK and EU there are well over 80,000 post-vax deaths in the official government reporting systems, and only a fraction of Adverse Events ever get reported. XS mortality numbers corroborate the AE reports. Life insurance and health insurance data also corroborate the AE reports. As do 1250 studies, with more coming out every day. There is, at this point, ZERO doubt that Bridgen is correct.
671   Patrick   2023 Jan 11, 11:21am  

https://notthebee.com/article/lol-the-new-york-times-is-fuming-because-ron-desantis-has-ignored-nonpartisan-corporate-media-reporters


DeSantis seems to have discovered that you can just ignore the corporate press and cruise to victory.

The New York Times and the rest of the mainstream media are freaking out at the prospect that they may no longer be the information gatekeepers.

You just LOVE to see it.

This sentence is the icing on the cake:



678   HeadSet   2023 Jan 23, 12:08pm  

Also was not an "assault weapon."
679   🎂 Shaman   2023 Jan 23, 3:03pm  

With the rise of ChatGPT3 and soon version 4 to be released, how long until they replace journalists with AI bots who can crank out a story in seconds, or (with CGI avatars) read the news on air with precision and even flair?
Who needs a news room?
680   Patrick   2023 Jan 23, 11:06pm  

Weird, another mass shooting by another Asian guy just today:

https://twitter.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1617695167615741952?ref_src=patrick.net

@CitizenFreePres
Suspect arrested in Half Moon Bay shooting massacre.

He is 67 year old Zhao Chunli.

Authorities say six people have been killed and four of them were Chinese farmworkers at a mountain Mushroom Farm.
682   richwicks   2023 Jan 30, 11:03pm  

Shaman says

With the rise of ChatGPT3 and soon version 4 to be released, how long until they replace journalists with AI bots who can crank out a story in seconds, or (with CGI avatars) read the news on air with precision and even flair?
Who needs a news room?


Here's something to think about - with the rise of ChatGPT - who needs anybody in the intelligence agencies?

It's pretty knowledgeable about history, even history that is suppressed and it's quite knowledgeable about current events, even esoteric data. You can quiz it on Les Wexner's association with Jeffrey Epstein and Jean-Luc Brunel. Both those two people were accused of the same crime, and died in the same way, suicide in prison, supposedly. Cameras failed, and the prison guards just couldn't be there to stop it..
686   Al_Sharpton_for_President   2023 Feb 8, 7:22pm  

"If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast." - William Tecumseh Sherman.
690   Patrick   2023 Feb 10, 10:47am  

https://notthebee.com/article/who-is-most-responsible-for-dividing-us-heres-my-vote


I've pointed out on a number of occasions the not-so-well-kept-secret that sportswriters are often political journalists who have been unable to crack into that highly competitive field, so they've settled for sports. I once asked someone in the field about all this and they remarked there was a pervasive insecurity among sportswriters. Many feel that they are jokes in the journalist community, and so each is desperately looking for any angle, any opportunity to write a piece that "matters." ...

There's a reason troops stationed in war zones around the world are desperate for Armed Forces Radio or some special satellite uplink to carry NFL games on the weekends. There's a reason workaholics flock to bars in the evening to drink a beer and catch a game. Sports are important.

Yet perhaps unable to see or appreciate the value of their own field, so many in sports journalism are ruining that very escape for people by intentionally injecting worldly turmoil and partisan politics into the otherwise apolitical activity.

The consequence? Leagues are paying a hefty price for this critical miscalculation. The NFL anthem-kneeling fiasco dented what was once thought to be the impenetrable shell of professional football viewership. People tuned out because they were so turned off over the stance that their team's owner, coach, or players took to the issue.

The NBA experienced much of the same when Black Lives Matter riots beleaguered the country, burning down cities while offering no substantive, discernible goals. The cringeworthy LeBron James interview where he attempted to discuss the Malcolm X biography he claimed to be reading at the time will go down in infamy.

Even the National Hockey League was recently guilted into some ill-advised gay rights extravaganza, attempting to shame players into wearing "Pride" jerseys, with the media stalking anyone who wouldn't. There was simply no reason for any of it. ...

So hats off to Azarenka for blazing the trail that I hope countless other athletes begin to walk. If sportswriters' desperate allegiance to progressive politics consumes them in misery, so be it. But let the rest of us have our escape.

691   Patrick   2023 Feb 10, 11:46pm  

https://teddybrosevelt.substack.com/p/covid-xix-clown-wars-fifteen-days


Last month, the super fake mainstream news reported that Joe Biden would end both the COVID-19 national emergency and public health emergency on May 11, 2023.

They lied.

Instead, Biden extended the two emergencies, which were set to expire on March 1 and April 11. ...

Biden’s press release claims that the Covid-19 emergency extension “does not impose mask or vaccine mandates”.

Congratulations on not imposing new vaccine mandates. When do they plan on eliminating existing vaccine mandates that still force MILLIONS of Americans to choose between (a) work and college (b) vaccine side effects.

Yes, vaccine mandates are STILL a thing in 2023.

For way more Americans than just federal employees and contractors.

Colleges students at Harvard and CUNY must get the bivalent boosters to attend classes on campus this semester.

Many private companies are still requiring new job applicants to provide proof of Covid-19 vaccination.




... These obnoxious, science-denying motherfuckers are still attacking anyone who dares to utter a negative word about their failed gene therapy shots that have introduced the world to terms like ‘original antigenic sin’ and ‘antibody dependent enhancement’.




As of February 10, 2023:

An overwhelming majority of Americans (84%) are NOT fully vaccinated / up-to-date on their boosters. They are never, ever getting a Covid shot again.

Only 16% of Americans got the bivalent boosters. ...
692   Patrick   2023 Feb 12, 8:17am  

https://tarahenley.substack.com/p/weekend-reads-big-journalisms-big


The problem is not that the public is not aware of the excellent work journalists are doing. The problem is that the public is well aware of journalists’ work, and they don’t think it’s excellent at all. They think it’s inaccurate and ideologically-driven.

I take no pleasure in criticizing the CBC. But as someone who publicly quit the network, I obviously get a lot of mail on the topic of media distrust. And the mail that I get suggests that a considerable number of Canadians believe journalists have subscribed, en masse, to a very specific, progressive political project.

They think that this is hindering our news judgement, causing us to abandon objectivity, and making us behave more like activists than journalists.

As a result, they no longer trust us to do what they would most like us to. Which is to determine the facts, to the best of our ability, and then reflect that reality, in all its complexity, back to the public. So that citizens may then decide for themselves how to act — whether that’s voting someone out of office, applying public pressure through protests or advocacy, engaging in policy debates, or doing nothing at all.

In other words, they believe that it’s not our job to influence their behaviour.
694   AmericanKulak   2023 Feb 12, 7:57pm  

It would be cosmic justice if she got sucker punched by a bean pie salesman Black Nationalist Guy in Brooklyn.
695   stereotomy   2023 Feb 12, 8:41pm  

Patrick says





Racism is alive and well among any race other than "white people." Fine - white people are faced with the choice: succumb to extermination or fight for your right to exist. WFT are these brown/yellow racists trying to do? As far as I'm concerned, they've just revealed their true colors.
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.

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