The FCC prohibits broadcasting false information about a crime or a catastrophe if the broadcaster knows the information is false and will cause substantial “public harm” if aired.
MSM Blackout
Confirmed: The Laptop Belongs to Hunter Biden…And the Liberal Media Can Eat a Ton of Crow
They should actually get a frying pan to the face. The liberal media peddled lies and more lies about Hunter Biden and the laptop that exposed the sordid business dealings of the Biden family. It was the 2020 October Surprise that the media depth charged. Why? It’s obvious. It made Joe Biden look bad. It torched the narrative that the former vice president knew nothing about his son’s business dealings. He was in the thick of it, especially on the failed CEFC China Energy deal. China still gave the Biden family millions, however.
Fact or Fiction: Are news reporters straying from the ethics and standards of journalism?
A large demographic certainly might think so, given that 49 per cent of Canadians think that journalists are purposefully trying to mislead them.
CNN Describes Horrific Murder Of UberEats Driver As An ‘Accident’
Mohammad Anwar, who is 66 years old and from Springfield, Va., died after two girls aged 13 and 15 dragged him while he gripped the car they were stealing. The minors eventually flipped the vehicle, flinging Anwar to the sidewalk on Tuesday. The minors are from the DC area, according to police.
Is ‘My Son Hunter’ the Movie Joe Biden Fears Most?
Social media giants and reporters alike covered up the Hunter Biden scandal during the critical weeks before the 2020 presidential election.
It likely helped him defeat President Donald Trump.
Now, filmmaker Phelim McAleer wants to show the world what voters missed.
Feds Confiscate Guns in Flathead Valley With 30 Vehicles, Three Tanks, and Helicopter
Heretofore ignored by the legacy press and mainstream media, in February, federal authorities invaded a neighborhood in the Flathead Valley with militarized police and terrorized its occupants with what appears to be Waco-level tyrannical overreach.
The Sovietization of the American Press
I collect Soviet newspapers. Years ago, I used to travel to Moscow’s Izmailovsky flea market every few weeks, hooking up with a dealer who crisscrossed the country digging up front pages from the Cold War era. I have Izvestia’s celebration of Gagarin’s flight, a Pravda account of a 1938 show trial, even an ancient copy of Ogonyek with Trotsky on the cover that someone must have taken a risk to keep.
These relics, with dramatic block fonts and red highlights, are cool pieces of history. Not so cool: the writing! Soviet newspapers were wrought with such anvil shamelessness that it’s difficult to imagine anyone ever read them without laughing. A good Soviet could write almost any Pravda headline in advance. What else but “A Mighty Demonstration of the Union of the Party and the People” fit the day after Supreme Soviet elections? What news could come from the Spanish civil war but “Success of the Republican Fleet?” Who could earn an obit headline but a “Faithful Son of the Party”?
Reality in Soviet news was 100% binary, with all people either heroes or villains, and the villains all in league with one another (an SR was no better than a fascist or a “Right-Trotskyite Bandit,” a kind of proto-horseshoe theory). Other ideas were not represented, except to be attacked and deconstructed. Also, since anything good was all good, politicians were not described as people at all but paragons of limitless virtue — 95% of most issues of Pravda or Izvestia were just names of party leaders surrounded by lists of applause-words, like “glittering,” “full-hearted,” “wise,” “mighty,” “courageous,” “in complete moral-political union with the people,” etc.
Some of the headlines in the U.S. press lately sound suspiciously like this kind of work:
— Biden stimulus showers money on Americans, sharply cutting poverty
— Champion of the middle class comes to the aid of the poor
— Biden’s historic victory for America
CNN is wringing the last drops of panic from the coronavirus pandemic
The coronavirus pandemic was the best thing to happen to CNN since Donald Trump.
What drama! What fear! What potential for ratings! Rarely has the old journalism aphorism “if it bleeds, it leads” gotten such mileage.
When the virus first came to the United States, CNN was dismissive. There were bigger, sexier stories to worry about, including Trump’s impeachment trial.
Then, as COVID-19 infections and fatalities ticked up, CNN suddenly became interested in the viral outbreak, focusing its attention almost entirely on the Trump administration’s sluggish and unfocused response. CNN went all-in on hysteria, death counts, and social distance scolding. Now, CNN’s programming is dedicated largely to squeezing the last few drops of panic from the pandemic, its guests and hosts warning viewers repeatedly that, even with the creation and distribution of new vaccines, things are far from “normal” and that you should stay frightened.
It’s still dangerous out there! Tune in tonight to learn what you can do to protect yourself!
WATCH: Don Lemon says that ‘we don’t need to hear the other side’ of Markle racism controversy
“What’s the other side going to say? They’re going to say, ‘Of course we’re not racist,’ or whatever … We have only heard from one side, but that one side at this point rings very true.”
CBC partners with big tech to combat disinformation online
According to a press release on the matter, the initiative was formed to “address the prevalence of disinformation, misinformation and online content fraud through developing technical standards for certifying the source and history or provenance of media content.”
Big Three CENSOR News on White House-Backed ‘Dark Money’ Group Pushing Biden’s Leftist Agenda
A Wall Street Journal exclusive revealed that Biden’s allies were “preparing to create a new nonprofit advocacy organization, with the White House’s approval, that will be funded by donors and seek to build support for his policy agenda, senior administration officials said.” The Feb. 17 report noted that the new group, named “Building Back Together,” will “be a 501(c)(4) nonprofit, which would allow it to operate without disclosing its donors.” ABC World News Tonight, CBS Evening News and NBC Nightly News ignored the news altogether during their Feb. 17, Feb. 18, and Feb. 19 broadcasts.
The First Step Towards Righting America Is Refusing To Believe The Left About Anything
Did you know that you can see The Great Wall of China from outer space? Is that not absolutely incredible? I heard this cool little fact from a friend some time ago and began telling everyone I knew about this cool trivia nugget.
What really blew me away was how almost everyone I told had already heard this and agreed with me that it is a very cool fact. A man-made wall you can see from outer space. That is just incredible.
I mean, it would be incredible, if it were true. You see, it is not true—not even a little. NASA and multiple individual astronauts have debunked this myth. Yet much of the general public believes it to be a fact, as NASA points out.
But why? The narrative. That is why. There is nothing more powerful (and destructive) in today’s world than the narrative.
h/t Marvin
The New York Times Retracts the Sicknick Story
In a quiet but stunning correction, the New York Times backed away from its original report that Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick was killed by a Trump supporter wielding a fire extinguisher during the January 6 melee at the Capitol building. Shortly after American Greatness published my column Friday that showed how the Times gradually was backpedaling on its January 8 bombshell, the paper posted this caveat:
“UPDATE: New information has emerged regarding the death of the Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick that questions the initial cause of his death provided by officials close to the Capitol Police.”
They held out until after the impeachment was over.
h/t Mauser98
CNN’s Brian Stelter wants ‘liar’ Fox News’ influence reduced, claims it’s not ‘censorship’: ‘Freedom of speech is not the same as freedom of reach’
Stelter touted a ‘harm reduction model’ to fight ‘information pollution’ on the rival cable channel.
Pedogate! Lincoln Project knew about accused pedo and kept quiet
John Weaver was one of John McCain’s closest advisers. After working for McCain, he was in the employ of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. Then he worked on John Kasich’s presidential campaign. He’s also an accused pedophile and sexual harasser who co-founded The Lincoln Project.
The Lincoln Project team knew that their co-founder, John Weaver, was grooming and harassing young men online, including a 14-year-old boy, and they hid it. The media knew and they hid it. They didn’t want it to come out before the election.