Media Corruption

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INGSOC
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NPR Lies Outrageously About Republicans on Your Nickel


Then we hear Burghart: “If you allowed groups that fall into this category to bring their agenda to fruition in the United States, it would do things like get rid of equal protection and due process, and even the amendment prohibiting slavery. We would get rid of things like women’s voting rights. They’re not out there saying ‘We want to overthrow the government to create a white nation,’ but they are putting forward ideas, wrapped in a Constitutional package, that ultimately have the same impact.”

So NPR would have us believe that over 20% of Republican state legislators want to bring back slavery and deny women the right to vote. This outrageous smear is based on the Left’s talking points about the possible overturning of Roe v. Wade: the idea that if the abortion issue is thrown back to the states, other issues where the federal government ultimately took a position on something that had previously been up to the individual states could be thrown back to the states as well.

The fatal flaw in this argument, however, is that slavery and women’s suffrage were the subject of actual Constitutional amendments, while the universal legality of abortion is based on one dubiously argued Supreme Court decision. Republicans could argue in a similar vein that attempts to make Roe sacrosanct will lead to a return of segregation, as the Supreme Court ruled for in its favor in Plessy v. Ferguson. But Republicans (“the Stupid Party”) don’t generally fight as dirty as Democrats (“the Evil Party”) do.


It’s because the Evil Party fights so dirty that our tax dollars are going to pay for this appalling Leftist propaganda on NPR. NPR should, of course, be immediately and totally defunded. But we would need a Congress full of patriots for that.
 

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INGSOC
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Stelter is myopic as The Five discussions Biden






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all the progressive media did was screech doom and gloom when Trump was in office
 

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INGSOC
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“The owners of the Georgia-based company have donated more than $70,000 directly to GOP candidates for federal office this election cycle, according to a review of filings with the Federal Election Commission. Daniel Defense itself gave $100,000 last year to a PAC backing incumbent Republican senators,” according to WaPo.

The paper also struck out at former NFL superstar and GOP Senate candidate Herschel Walker in a sleazy effort to insinuate that he bears some of the blame for the Uvalde massacre.

“The beneficiaries of the couple’s political contributions include at least one candidate who emerged victorious in Tuesday’s primary contests, Herschel Walker. The former football star is running for the U.S. Senate in Georgia with former president Donald Trump’s endorsement. Asked Tuesday night whether he would support new gun legislation, Walker said, “What I like to do is see it and everything and stuff.”

Twitter users just weren’t having it and fired back at WaPo and its shifting of the blame away from the actual shooter.









 

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INGSOC
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Good thing we took a screenshot: The Washington Post just totally changed its correction of Taylor Lorenz’s Depp-Heard article







It now reads:

CORRECTION
The first published version of this story stated incorrectly that Internet influencers Alyte Mazeika and ThatUmbrellaGuy had been contacted for comment before publication. In fact, only Mazeika was asked, via Instagram. After the story was published, The Post continued to seek comment from Mazeika via social media and queried ThatUmbrellaGuy for the first time. During that process, The Post removed the incorrect statement from the story but did not note its removal, a violation of our corrections policy. The story has been updated to note that Mazeika declined to comment for this story and ThatUmbrellaGuy could not be reached for comment. A previous version of this story also inaccurately attributed a quote to Adam Waldman, a lawyer for Johnny Depp. The quote described how he contacted some Internet influencers and has been removed.

And here’s what the first correction said:

CORRECTION
A previous version of this story inaccurately attributed to Adam Waldman a quote describing how he contacted some Internet influencers. That quote has been removed. The story has also been amended to note The Post’s attempts to reach Alyte Mazeika and ThatUmbrellaGuy for comment. Previous versions omitted or inaccurately described these attempts.
 

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INGSOC
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America's largest newspaper chain Gannett orders USA Today and other publications to roll back op-eds after 'repelling readers' with biased articles




America's largest newspaper chain Gannett has instructed its newsrooms to scale back opinion pieces which are 'repelling readers' who do not want to be told what to do.

The newspaper chain owns the USA Today network which takes in hundreds of local newspapers in almost every state across the country.

At a recent editors committee meeting in April, editors said in a presentation: 'Readers don’t want us to tell them what to think.

'They don’t believe we have the expertise to tell anyone what to think on most issues.

'They perceive us as having a biased agenda,' according to The Washington Post.

Now, the company will do-away with opinion pieces almost entirely and they will also not allow any endorsement of politicians aside from in local races.

They will no longer endorse presidential candidates, or candidates in House and Senate races.

The only elections they will now cover will be local.
 

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INGSOC
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WaPo’s Taylor Lorenz Removed From Features Staff After False Claims In Story: Report




The report comes after the Post had to make two corrections earlier this month to Lorenz’s story on content creators and the Johnny Depp-Amber Heard trial.


“Ms. Lorenz has been moved from the features staff to the technology team, according to three people with knowledge of the move,” the Times wrote, adding that Senior Managing Editor Cameron Barr “has been asked to review her articles before publication, two of the people said.”

Fox News asked the Post if Lorenz’s move means she will now be considered a reporter instead of a columnist, but the newspaper declined to comment.

In her piece published June 2, Lorenz inaccurately attributed a comment to Depp’s lawyer Adam Waldman. YouTubers ThatUmbrellaGuy and Alyte Mazeika also said Lorenz failed to reach out to them before publication, even though she wrote that both content creators did not respond to a request for comment, Fox News reported.

A note at the bottom of the problematic story said that it had been “updated to clarify comments made during Waldman’s testimony,” but initially, no correction was admitted when the Post edited out Lorenz’s claim that Mazeika and ThatUmbrellaGuy did not respond to a request for comment.
 

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INGSOC
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WaPo ‘crybully’ Taylor Lorenz demoted and ‘assigned a babysitter’ after Depp-Heard article drama


As previously reported, Lorenz had gotten called out for claiming to not receive comment from YouTubers about the Johnny Depp-Amber Heard defamation trial when in reality she had never contacted them. Amid ongoing turmoil at the newspaper, the Post made the decision to relocate Lorenz and provided her with oversight.


The New York Times reported on the move and wrote, “Ms. Lorenz has been moved from the features staff to the technology team, according to three people with knowledge of the move.”


More news in here: @TaylorLorenz has been moved from the features staff to the technology team. Cameron Barr, the WaPo's No. 2 editor, has been asked to review her articles before publicationhttps://t.co/i5BZ72jsC6?
— Ben Mullin (@BenMullin) June 17, 2022
 

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INGSOC
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It's Official: WaPo Wokester Taylor Lorenz Is the Most Insufferable Person Alive



Insufferable? Sure. Most insufferable person alive? Not quite yet.

Last week, Lorenz got busted for, well, lying in a story she wrote about the Johnny Depp/Amber Heard trial:

Lorenz reported this week on social media influencers covering the Johnny Depp-Amber Heard defamation trial just concluded in Fairfax, Virginia. Lorenz was called out by two subjects for falsely reporting she reached out to them for comment before publication. The Post then engaged in several efforts to clean up Lorenz’s sloppy reporting by first doing a stealth edit (removing the false passage without explanation) and then issuing several corrections. Lorenz took to social media to blame her editor.

To its credit, WaPo removed Lorenz from Features and assigned her an editor to approve her work going forward, according to the New York Times.


 

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INGSOC
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The corporate media will have the backs of Fauci and Dems (mostly) no matter what facts come to light in the wake of the pandemic and the disastrous responses:

In the very early days of the pandemic, a health policy expert and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Scott Atlas, wrote to a high-level government official in Washington that lockdowns and other measures were wrong. “The panic needs to be stopped both about the need for lockdown and even a frantic need for urgent testing,” he said on March 21, 2020. This set the tone for a strategy known as herd immunity that he advocated at the White House starting in July as an aide to President Donald Trump. It was misguided, costly and wrong.
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The herd immunity idea advanced by Dr. Atlas and others called for protecting the most vulnerable, primarily the elderly, but allowing the virus to spread through the rest of the population to create natural immunity. The approach discouraged masks, lockdowns and testing. For example, in August, according to the report, Dr. Atlas provided extensive comments on draft testing guidance by the CDC, repeatedly inserting language to narrow testing recommendations. He also was against face masks, writing to other White House aides on Oct. 4, “In fact, there is vanishingly little hard evidence that masks actually work to block transmission of the virus.”

 

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As Journalists Continue to 'Fight' Disinformation, They Ignore Mounting Examples Seen in the Press


Early last week, a curious flurry of verified accounts shared a story from Salon.com reporting that Florida Governor Ron DeSantis required universities to have faculty and students report their political views to the state. Not only was this an old story from June 2021, but it was completely debunked over a year ago. Yet, many journalists were pushing this verifiably false claim about a politician, and no one in the press was heard squealing about this disinformation being a threat to our democracy.

Then currently, we see a severe dose of media malpractice, one that actually crosses over to both medical and democracy-challenging levels. Countless outlets are spreading a story about a 10-year-old girl who has been forced to travel in order to get an abortion. It has become a global news story, thanks mostly to President Biden sharing this tale. Except, as I covered at RedState, there is a distinct possibility this is a fabricated news item.

No one has been able to verify this story beyond the lone source, an abortion doctor in Indiana. No authorities or politicians can verify this case, and those involved with reporting on it have not shared anything that could be regarded as proof this girl exists. Yet it has been spread like wildfire across the media industry. Brian Stelter once lectured on this very behavior in the press, condemning those who might be "repeating, not reporting."

Of course, he was using that glib line directed at Fox News and conservative outlets. Yet, here we see the media industry engaged in that exact behavior on a massive scale. He is muted on that story, the practice in general, and the misinformation campaign writ large. There is a good (bad) reason for this. The press wants to be the authority on what is considered misinformation. Stelter even alludes to the fluid nature of this topic, exposing the convenience of the interpretational aspects.

"The discouraging truth about disinformation – It's that the topic itself is almost impossible to talk about since there is next to no agreement on what the term even means."

Somehow, despite being unclear what disinformation means, the press has supreme confidence in who is guilty of this nebulous subject and lashes out freely. They encourage the government to go after those engaged in this ill-defined practice, as they are the ones pointing at the guilty parties. Meanwhile, they are free to push false stories and narratives, confident that since they are the thought police, they will never face the charge themselves.
 
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