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


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2021 Apr 10, 10:02pm   129,557 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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796   richwicks   2023 Jun 30, 2:40am  

Patrick says


Our media is a laughingstock. You literally can’t believe anything they say these days. I feel like we should apologize to the Russians for mocking their Soviet-era newspaper ‘Pravda’ back in the day. Now we know what it feels like.


I hope you realize that everything that is called "reliable sources" is propaganda.

Patrick says


80% that you told us is all false. So the public is all going, "No, you don't have the power you used to."


It's higher than 80%. No information is given out by corporate media other than maybe sports scores or possibly the weather, and they even lie about that. Canada is burning because of "climate change", they say - it's arson. What do "reliable sources" report that is true? Name some. Think carefully about this. They are lying about everything from foreign policy to the reason for protests.
797   DOGEWontAmountToShit   2023 Jun 30, 7:30pm  

Patrick says






The internet has eclipsed TV, I think.
798   Patrick   2023 Jun 30, 7:41pm  

There's a big difference:

TV is strictly one way, from the CIA to you.

The internet at least has the potential of being multi-directional, where random individuals can communicate with each other, just like we are doing now.

But yes, Google, Facebook, and Twitter (even now) are being used as deadly weapons against humanity.
801   Patrick   2023 Jul 7, 3:52pm  

https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/kitten-corner-debunking-the-debunkers


jeepers you guys, it looks like the new york times is still saying that “covid-19 vaccines do not prevent transmission of the disease” is “debunked claims from vaccine skeptics!”




...




but jeez i hope nobody tells the CDC, because it seems like probably that would hurt their feelings…



804   richwicks   2023 Jul 8, 11:19pm  

Trollhole says


The internet has eclipsed TV, I think.


Internet allows us to learn, just about anything, television doesn't.

Philo Farnsworth invented the television expecting it to be an educational tool. He saw it as a failure to such an extent that when his son asked him why they didn't have one, he supposedly said:

There's nothing on it worthwhile, and we're not going to watch it in this household, and I don't want it in your intellectual diet.


He was a true genius, it's a pity he died in 1971. I doubt he even know ARPANet was invented. The Internet can be as bad as television, but ONLY as bad. It can't be worse, provided it's 2 way. Anything you encounter which is one way, is just the same old shit, if you can't comment, and you can't learn from other independent people, it's worthless.

Commenting is the best thing ever. I learned more about the world from individual people commenting on news articles than I could have ever learned just reading news articles. People will point out bullshit in a second when they see it.
810   HeadSet   2023 Jul 18, 5:41pm  

Patrick says






Yep, as warned by Lewis Carol long ago:


811   Patrick   2023 Jul 20, 8:08am  

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/triple-standards-wednesday-july-19?publication_id=463409&post_id=135273232&isFreemail=true


Narrative alert! Bloomberg ran a narrative-baking story yesterday deceptively headlined, “US Suspends Wuhan Institute Funds Over Covid Stonewalling.” ...

Bloomberg also reported that HHS’s Office of Inspector General conducted an audit earlier this year that determined the NIH failed to effectively monitor its awards and subawards, harming the agency’s “ability to understand the nature of research conducted and identify problem areas.” In other words, Bloomberg is setting up an excuse for NIH to “not know” what was going on with the money it gave Wuhan.

See? The NIH wasn’t deliberately funding gain-of-function research. They just trusted the Wuhan lab and forgot to check what it was using the money for.

In other words, the NIH is admitting to the lesser crime of negligence, rather than of being up to its filthy neck in gain-of-function research and being nabbed in a Chinese biolab bathroom with its pants down.

This was a narrative-crafting article. Bloomberg is helping stitch together a fairytale about how the virus leaked from a shoddily-run lab. It was negligence all around, just one of those things. The conclusion will be that we need to tighten up the procedures and fund the agencies even more so that they can do their jobs properly.
813   Patrick   2023 Jul 22, 10:49am  

https://notthebee.com/article/did-you-hear-about-the-officer-who-stopped-a-muslim-terrorist-from-shooting-up-a-street-fair-in-fargo-this-week


Did you hear about the officer who stopped a heavily-armed man named Mohamad from shooting up a street fair in Fargo last week?

Did you hear about the shooting in North Dakota? No? Why not?

Don't we have national news corporations?

821   Patrick   2023 Jul 29, 3:51pm  

https://vigilantfox.substack.com/p/rfk-jr-exposes-big-pharmas-control


RFK Jr. Exposes Big Pharma’s Control Over the TV News

There are only two countries that allow pharma ads on TV: one is the United States, and the other is New Zealand.

“75% of the advertising revenues in the nightly news come from pharmaceutical companies,” reported Kennedy.

Kennedy produced a documentary about vaccines and presented it to Fox News. Then Fox News executive Roger Ailes told Kennedy, “This is like a red line for us.” “If one of my hosts, like Cavuto or Sean, allowed you on to talk about this issue, I would have to fire them.” ...

“Anderson Cooper is getting a $13-million-a-year salary. But if you actually look at the revenues, probably 70 or 80% of that is coming from Pfizer,” commented Kennedy.

“So, who is he really working for? Is he working for the public interest? I don’t think so. And it’s not that Pfizer is writing his scripts and dictating stuff, but he knows where the boundaries are of what he can and cannot say.”

This interview was censored and taken down by YouTube, but you can still watch it here:

https://twitter.com/VigilantFox/status/1685397533315526656
826   Patrick   2023 Aug 2, 12:57pm  

https://www.euphoricrecall.net/p/32-ideas-for-32-years?publication_id=323684&post_id=135485126&isFreemail=true


What modern journalism has become. The internet’s digital tsunami of information and emancipation of authorship shattered the traditional newspaper business model and the elite-controlled dispensation that had long endowed newsrooms with a sacrosanct authority as a gatekeeper to knowledge with a monopoly over dissemination and agenda-setting. To survive, the mainstream media has pivoted from journalism to tribalism; the goal isn’t to inform readers, it’s to confirm what they already believe.
827   HeadSet   2023 Aug 2, 1:25pm  

Patrick says

the goal isn’t to inform readers, it’s to confirm what they already believe.

Correct, it is not "Get this out quickly, the people have a right to know," but rather "Get this out quickly, people want their opinions validated."
829   Patrick   2023 Aug 3, 1:49pm  

https://slaynews.com/news/washington-post-biden-four-pinocchios-false-claim-hunter-never-took-money-china/




Leftist corporate media outlet the Washington Post has issued a “fact-check” on Democrat President Joe Biden’s false claim that his son Hunter never took money from China.

The Post’s “fact-checker” Glenn Kessler slapped President Biden with “Four Pinocchios” over his false claim about Hunter’s shady foreign business deals.

According to the Post’s “fact-checking” scale, “Four Pinocchios” is the highest rating for a false claim, which it refers to as “whoppers.”

Kessler begins Tuesday’s fact-check of Biden by revisiting comments he made in both presidential debates in 2020 when he repeatedly denied claims that Hunter did business with China.

“But now, nearly three years later, Biden’s assertions have been directly rebutted by Hunter himself,” Kessler writes.


Kessler is risking his job by telling the truth.
830   Patrick   2023 Aug 3, 2:01pm  

Patrick says






https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/02/opinion/trump-meritocracy-educated.html


Armed with all kinds of economic, cultural and political power, we support policies that help ourselves. Free trade makes the products we buy cheaper, and our jobs are unlikely to be moved to China. Open immigration makes our service staff cheaper, but new, less-educated immigrants aren’t likely to put downward pressure on our wages.

Like all elites, we use language and mores as tools to recognize one another and exclude others. Using words like “problematic,” “cisgender,” “Latinx” and “intersectional” is a sure sign that you’ve got cultural capital coming out of your ears. Meanwhile, members of the less-educated classes have to walk on eggshells because they never know when we’ve changed the usage rules so that something that was sayable five years ago now gets you fired. ...

Elite institutions have become so politically progressive in part because the people in them want to feel good about themselves as they take part in systems that exclude and reject.

It’s easy to understand why people in less-educated classes would conclude that they are under economic, political, cultural and moral assault — and why they’ve rallied around Trump as their best warrior against the educated class. He understood that it’s not the entrepreneurs who seem most threatening to workers; it’s the professional class. Trump understood that there was great demand for a leader who would stick his thumb in our eyes on a daily basis and reject the whole epistemic regime that we rode in on.


But then he plunges back into the slime by accusing Trump of being a "monster". Weird abandonment of true introspection right at the last moment. Maybe he has to do that to keep his job.
832   Patrick   2023 Aug 5, 10:02am  

https://twitter.com/KanekoaTheGreat/status/1654982143918100482


@KanekoaTheGreat
#5 Between 2013 and 2019, the New York Times and the Washington Post increased their usage of "white privilege" and "racial privilege" by 1,200% and nearly 1,500%, respectively.



835   Ceffer   2023 Aug 7, 6:24pm  

Patrick says




Well, at least they didn't call us "dead maritime chattels of the Crown Colony".



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