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


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2021 Apr 10, 10:02pm   130,131 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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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  

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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?

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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

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Oozin' along on your livin' room floor

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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.

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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’
736   Patrick   2023 Apr 14, 4:30pm  

https://sashastone.substack.com/p/we-need-to-talk-about-audrey-hale#details


When 28-year-old Audrey Hale armed herself with a semi-automatic and slaughtered six people, including three children, the media went almost completely dark on the story, pivoting instead to guns and somehow racism. Yes, racism.
737   Patrick   2023 Apr 14, 6:56pm  

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/level-four-friday-april-14-2023-c


Yesterday evening, the Wall Street Journal ran an utterly fabulous monstrosity of a story headlined, “Air Guardsman Arrested in Connection With Leaked Documents.”

In a story so moronic that it is painful to have to write about it (they’re practically daring me to use the ‘r’ word, and I’ll do it, just try me), the 100% government-controlled, perfectly useless, heinously criminal corporate media was made out to be the hero of the evolving narrative. As I type this, I can feel the IQ points storming out of my cranium in a huff, bags hastily packed, irate at just being asked to consider this ridiculous fairy tale sufficiently credible to even make fun of it. It’s the kind of story I would usually blithely ignore, except that a hastily-assembled taradiddle like this one evidences a historic, narrative-wrecking goof up of Bidenic proportions.

As Tennyson used to say about the poor doomed soldiers of the Light Brigade, not though the soldier knew, someone, somewhere, had blundered.

And how.

According to the breathless media reports, in the speediest investigation in history, by crack investigative journalists sprinting past law enforcement, diligent New York Times sleuths supposedly nabbed the Minecraft Papers leaker — who allegedly had physical access to top-secret, print-only documents from five different intelligence agencies — who was promptly taken down in a massive FBI raid.

The devilish traitor — definitely NOT a whistleblower exposing official White House lies, no, never, this is NOT like the Pentagon Papers at all, how dare you, do you love Putin or something? — is supposed to be a 21-year-old part-time member of the Air National Guard and video game aficionado.

Give me a break. The story is utterly preposterous and the Journal knows it. Although it couldn’t risk biting the withered, decaying hand that feeds it tasty intelligence snacks, the Journal still couldn’t quite help expressing some thinly-veiled skepticism:

It wasn’t immediately clear why somebody with his job title—cyber transport systems journeyman—would have access to the types of files that have surfaced.

You don’t say! I can’t wait to hear the convoluted cock and bull they come up with to explain how videogamer Jack Texiera, 21, outwitted the top intelligence agencies in the country. This should be good.

The Journal reported with a straight face that Joe Biden and President Zelenskyy both said the leaks were completely harmless and didn’t give away anything worth noting. The leaked files “have no operational significance,” Mykhailo Podolyak, a Ukrainian presidential adviser, said in an interview. “They have no impact on the front line or the planning of the General Staff.” The Former Vice President, when asked for an update on the leak investigation Thursday during a trip to Dublin, said he was concerned that the leak happened, but “there’s nothing contemporaneous that I’m aware of that’s of great consequence.”

Well then, what’s all the hoopla about?

Meanwhile, the alphabet networks (CNN, MSNBC, etc) piled on Mr. Texiera, breathlessly reporting the young Massachusetts man is a racist, sexist, homophobe with a gun fetish and probably a Trump supporter. In other words, he’s a terrifically bad person. Virtue signal fail. So obviously Mr. Texiera can’t be a whistleblower or anything good like that.

Coincidentally, this was also, of course, the official, government-approved narrative:




... I hardly know where to start with this ridiculous buffoonery. We are meant to believe that a junior Air National Guardsman somehow collected top-secret documents from multiple highest-level intelligence sources and then plunked them onto his Minecraft video game server for no reason whatsoever. And then somehow the New York Times, which still can’t even find Antifa or ActBlue, somehow traced the leak all the way back to Texiera before the FBI, CIA, DoD, NSA, and everyone else who was looking for him.

Still — all of of this crack reporting blindly ignores the plain fact that Texiera — if he really was the leaker, and regardless of how virtuous he is or isn’t — is actually a hero who apparently single-handedly uncovered the U.S. government’s illegal secret proxy war and top officials’ countless lies to Congress and the American people.

Can someone remind me how you spell “patsy?”
738   richwicks   2023 Apr 14, 7:25pm  

ad says


That is because mainstream journalists are compromised and biased.


No. They have been propagandists for 20 years, they aren't "compromised". Their job is to misinform the public

Telling you this 20 years ago, was a fucking horrible thing to have to do. You'd be calling me a conspiracy theorist, a nutcase, somebody that lost their tin foil hat, and lost their meds. Nothing has changed in those 20 years, there's no apologies to those that were right, it's just savage. There's never a fucking apology, ever.

You have no idea what a burden you place on the sane. We see through all this bullshit, and we beg you to as well. We are on our knees, see what we see. It's so obvious to us, do you pretend not to see it, or do not you really not see it?

There's no "news" on television, or radio. Don't you see this?

I honestly am starting to think people around me, aren't human. Have you no soul? Have you no morality? I had dogs with better morality than most "people" I know. They were very good dogs though.
741   Patrick   2023 Apr 18, 7:40pm  

https://notthebee.com/article/ny-times-proves-trump-was-right-about-them-being-the-enemy-of-the-people


This isn't just poor framing. This isn't unintentional mischaracterization. This isn't accidental distortion. This is laughable propaganda that should have every honest individual associated with the paper in any capacity heading for the doors barring some kind of retraction and apology. Note that it's not just the agenda-pushing that is offensive here.

The fact that something like this could be published speaks directly to the lack of respect the New York Times has for the intellect and integrity of their readership. They clearly believe that readers will be either too stupid to think through the audacious ignorance of their claim, or be willing to ignore the outlet's dishonesty in order to further their shared objectives in the culture war.

Just pause and consider what believing the Times' premise would require. If this battle over transgender ideology was truly the work of conservatives desperate to find an issue to fundraise on, that would mean that up until just a few years ago, everyone on earth accepted the idea that there was no distinction between male and female, that gender was wholly separate from biological sex, and that there is simply a sliding scale of sexuality that an individual can move freely along their entire life.

Then, into this settled reality, came conservative social warriors who decided to upend what we all understood. These dastardly conservatives advanced a new and preposterous notion that there exists a male/female gender binary between which all human beings can be properly and scientifically distinguished. Suddenly, a culture that had always accepted and embraced boys in girls' restrooms, men competing in women's sporting competitions, and the presence of pronoun terms like zie and xyr, was thrown into chaos, warring over their divisive agenda.

No one – not even the most hard-hearted, stubborn, dogged trans activist – believes such a thing. Yet here is the Times, confidently tossing their credibility onto a funeral pyre, trusting that their ideological brethren on the progressive left won't hold them accountable for their dishonesties.
743   Patrick   2023 Apr 26, 7:13pm  

https://twitter.com/simonateba/status/1651190850230054914?ref_src=patrick.net




He told all the media there including @nytimes that @TuckerCarlson was fired and Julian Assange is in detention for 'DOING YOUR JOB".


Lol, this guy is great!

And... they cart him away. The NY Times is truly the enemy of the people.

His names seems to be Jose Vega.

https://twitter.com/JosBtrigga?ref_src=patrick.net
745   Patrick   2023 Apr 27, 10:14am  

https://notthebee.com/article/the-5-suspects-in-the-alabama-mass-shooting-were-arraigned-why-do-you-think-this-story-has-disappeared-from-the-news


Did you hear about the Alabama mass shooting at a 16th birthday party less than two weeks ago?

[April 15th's] shooting at a 16th birthday party shocked Dadeville, a sleepy east Alabama town of 3,200. Besides the four people killed, 32 others were injured, four of them critically. The Sweet 16 birthday party, at a dance studio just off the town square, was in full swing when gunfire erupted.

Investigators say 18-year-old Phil Dowdell, 23-year-old Corbin Holston, 19-year-old Marsiah Collins, and 17-year-old KeKe Smith were killed in the gunfire. Another 32 people were rushed to hospitals across the region for injuries ranging from minor to critical.

32 people!

... why has the national media silent on this over the last week? You'd think the gun-control advocates would be all over this!


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