The Media

Getting Trump Was More Important to Some Journalists Than Getting the Story Right

To retain journalistic credibility, getting a story right is more important than pursuing a crusade.

That’s a fair takeaway from a report published this week by the Columbia Journalism Review dissecting the so-called Russiagate saga, during which former President Donald Trump was accused of colluding with Russian officials to win the 2016 election. While pursuing the story, many journalists went well beyond their traditional role of scrutinizing powerful officials and not only openly picked a side in America’s escalating political warfare but committed to proving a literal conspiracy theory true, no matter the evidence. It didn’t go well.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inThe Media, The Media Lies, Trump Derangement Syndrome

The Russian Twitter Bots Story Is A Study In Media’s ‘Lie, Set The Narrative, Then Quietly Backtrack’ Playbook

The Washington Post admitted Monday that “Russian trolls on Twitter had little influence on 2016 voters” — years after the Post and other corporate media water-carriers pushed the false story that former President Donald Trump’s election was illegitimate, due in part to Russian interference via bots on Twitter targeting U.S. social media users. The admission cites a New York University study that found “there was no relationship between exposure to the Russian foreign influence campaign and changes in attitudes, polarization, or voting behavior.”

Media treatment of the non-story followed a predictable, three-step process that’s become the propaganda press’s MO: Spread a false claim, control the narrative while crushing dissent with bogus “fact checks,” and then admit the truth only after the news cycle has achieved its intended purpose.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inThe Media, The Media Lies, The Media's Preferred Narrative, Trump Derangement Syndrome, Twitter

Liberal Media Can’t Report ‘Twitter Files’ on 2020 Collusion with FBI — Zip, Zero, Nada

Out comes the news – make that voluminous news – that the FBI has been engaged in a serious partnership with Twitter to censor everything from the October, 2020 Hunter Biden laptop story in The New York Post to the accounts of this or that conservative. And from the liberal media? But of course — zip, zero, nada.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inThe Media, The Media Lies

CNN Admits to Being a Propaganda Operation

In its response to the Trump lawsuit, “the most trusted name in news” no longer seeks to hide its true nature from its viewers.

Recently, CNN filed its response to former President Donald Trump’s defamation lawsuit. It is not surprising that CNN’s attorneys seem to have the stronger legal argument. After all, the controlling precedents make it notoriously difficult for a public figure to prevail in a defamation action. It is surprising, however, and more than a little revealing, that CNN’s filing nevertheless tends to support the political complaint that animates Trump’s suit: namely, that CNN, contrary to its branding, is not exactly a beacon of journalistic objectivity and honesty.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inThe Media, The Media Lies

CNN boss Chris Licht slams ‘stunning’ left-wing ‘vitriol’ aimed at him

CNN boss Chris Licht slammed liberals for criticizing his move to make CNN less partisan, saying it only makes him more confident about his decisions.

“The uninformed vitriol, especially from the left, has been stunning,” Licht, who took over the cable network in May, told The New York Times. “Which proves my point: So much of what passes for news is name-calling, half-truths and desperation.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inThe Media

STUDY: Twitter Files Make Up Less Than 0.5% of Coverage on CNN, MSNBC

NewsBusters has found liberal cable news networks CNN and MSNBC have almost completely ignored the first five installments of the Twitter Files, which revealed Twitter employees engaged in rampant censorship of conservatives. Since the first set of documents were published on the evening of December 2, less half of one percent of the coverage on either network has even bothered to mention the story.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inThe Media, The Media Lies, Twitter

The New York Times’ partisan reporting lets Islamic extremists off the hook

A US paper of record’s podcast on the Trojan Horse affair is activism disguised as journalism

Anybody who has read The New York Times (NYT) recently knows the American newspaper of record has it in for Britain. Its correspondents describe us “cavorting in swamps” and surviving on a diet of “porridge and boiled mutton”. It reports that Brexit has ruined Easters and Christmases past and caused shortages of “candy”. Even the death of Queen Elizabeth prompted columns condemning the “repugnant royal demand for deference”.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inIslam, Islam and the Left, Islam and violence, Islam's Useful Idiot Apologists, Islamization of the West, New York Times, The Media, The Media Lies, USA

Left-wing journos attack reporter Matt Taibbi for exposing Musk’s Twitter files

Mainstream news reporters — in lockstep with Democratic strategists — rushed to social media to smear journalist Matt Taibbi as a “sad” “fraud” as he released his bombshell report on political censorship at Twitter.

“Matt Taibbi…what sad, disgraceful downfall,” Daily Beast columnist and New York Times contributor Wajahat Ali posted. “Selling your soul for the richest white nationalist on Earth.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Journalists", The Media, The Media Lies, Twitter

Shameful Networks Ignore Sickening Report of California Releasing Droves of Pedophiles

The Daily Mail uncorked a blockbuster investigation Monday into California’s database under Megan’s Law and found that, in a state where Golden State voters have chosen time and again to devalue law and order, “more than 7,000 sex offenders” that “were convicted of ‘lewd or lascivious acts with a child under 14 years of age’” have been “let out of prison the same year they were incarcerated.” 

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inThe Media

CNN bloodbath: Network fires Chris Cillizza, Alison Kosik, Alex Field, Martin Savidge and Robin Meade – AND scraps HLN’s live programming

The latest round of layoffs at CNN has hit some of the network’s biggest names.

Political analyst Chris Cillizza, 46, who has been covering national politics, the White House and Congress for the cable giant since 2017, after coming over to the network from The Washington Post, was among those who were let go this week, Variety reported.

Business correspondent Alison Kosik, 51, who covers the New York Stock Exchange and has been at the network since 2007 was nixed. She earns an average annual salary of between $100,000 and $145,143.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inThe Media

Matt Taibbi, Douglas Murray Dominate Trust-in-Media Debate – Trucker Convoy featured prominently

Toronto — Conservative commentator Douglas Murray and veteran reporter Matt Taibbi soundly defeated their opponents in a Wednesday evening debate on the question of whether to trust the mainstream media, convincing a significant segment of the audience to abandon their faith in an institution they say is hopelessly compromised by bias.

… The Canadian trucker protests featured prominently in the debate. During Murray’s opening remarks, the British commentator and fellow National Review contributor, laid into Prime Minister Trudeau and Canadian media outlets for failing to challenge the government-approved narrative that the protests were organized by bigots of various stripes.

“The Canadian mainstream media acted as an amen chorus of the Canadian government,” Murray argued. “Now why is this is rancid? So utterly, utterly, rancid and corrupt? Because in this country your media–your mainstream media–is funded by the government.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corporate Welfare Class, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class, Canada's Government Owned News Media, The Media, The Media Lies, The Media's Preferred Narrative

STUDY: Broadcast Networks Bury FTX CEO’s Massive Donations to Dems

Sam Bankman-Fried, the embattled CEO of failed cryptocurrency exchange FTX, was a massive donor to the Democratic Party. But you wouldn’t know it from the reporting on the big three broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC), who have so far almost completely hidden that salient detail from their audiences.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Digital Currency", Crime, Democratic Party, The Media, The Media Lies

Do the Western media want World War 3?

Their rash response to the missile strike in Poland was reckless in the extreme.

There’s truth to the old adage about ‘the fog of war’. It really is difficult to grasp what is happening in the midst of a conflict. There is too much in play. Too much movement and action. It makes it difficult to see clearly. To make claims about what is happening in any given moment, with any degree of certainty, is often impossible. So anyone doing so should probably be treated with a fair bit of scepticism.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Ukraine - Russia", The Media