The Media Lies – Page 12

How the Media Used Russiagate Conspiracy Theories to Create a News Cartel

The alliance between Big Tech and Big Media was sealed with censorship and cash.

In the fall of 2019, Facebook announced that it would be writing selected media outlets some very big checks. The launch of Facebook News was billed as a way to give consumers more access to information, but it was actually an attempt at appeasing big media companies.

Facebook, with its older and more conservative user base, had become the epicenter of election conspiracies from the Clinton campaign and its media allies. While Hillary Clinton and her associates were eager to shift the blame for her defeat by relaunching their existing Russiagate smears with false claims that Russian Facebook ads had tilted the election to Trump, the media’s obsession with Facebook was even more corruptly self-interested.

by Blazingcatfur•June 15, 2022June 15, 2022•0•"Big Tech Oligopoly", The Media, The Media Lies

More people are avoiding the news, and trusting it less, report says

“Large numbers of people see the media as subject to undue political influence…”

June 14 (Reuters) – A growing number of people are selectively avoiding important news stories such as the coronavirus pandemic, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and the cost-of-living crisis, according to a report released on Tuesday.

While the majority of people surveyed consume news regularly, 38% said they often or sometimes avoid the news – up from 29% in 2017 – the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism said in its annual Digital News Report. Around 36% – particularly those under 35 – say that the news lowers their mood.

Trust in news is also declining, and is lowest in the United States. On average, 42% of people said they trust most news most of the time; that figure has fallen in almost half the countries in the report and risen in seven.

by Blazingcatfur•June 15, 2022June 14, 2022•0•The Media, The Media Lies

Nolte: Subscriber Cancellations Force Biggest Newspaper Chain to Reduce Opinion

Gannett, America’s largest newspaper chain, is cutting back on telling its readers what to think due to what must be an alarming number of subscription cancellations.

“Readers don’t want us to tell them what to think,” said the Gannett editors, according to the far-left Washington Post (an outlet that knows all about telling its readers 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.”

by Blazingcatfur•June 13, 2022June 13, 2022•0•The Media, The Media Lies

Two-Thirds of Canadians on Right of Political Spectrum Think Media Doesn’t Provide Fair Coverage: Survey

Two-thirds of Canadians on the right of the political spectrum say that most stories in the news cover their beliefs unfairly, while less than one-quarter of Canadians on the left of that spectrum say the same, a recent survey found.

The survey also found that two-thirds of Canadians on the right say they don’t trust most of the stories in the news, while only one-fifth of Canadians on the left say the same.

by Blazingcatfur•June 13, 2022June 13, 2022•0•Canada, The Media, The Media Lies

Confirmed: Media Matters is a garbage place

A former researcher reveals it’s plagued by corruption

Timothy Johnson, a “researcher” with Media Matters for America, announced Monday that he had left the organization after ten years — and apparently not on amicable terms.

Johnson not only accused his former boss of covering for a sexual predator, but offered a rare mea culpa for his time with Media Matters. Maybe — just maybe — he notes, the organization dedicated to using out-of-context quotes, spurious accusations, and old tweets to destroy the livelihoods of its political enemies is not the virtuous place he thought it to be.

by Blazingcatfur•June 7, 2022June 7, 2022•0•The Media, The Media Lies

Kyle Rittenhouse Lawyers Up: Likely Target is Facebook and Ten or Twelve Others

It appears that Kyle Rittenhouse has decided that it’s time that he becomes a millionaire and he has hired Attorney Todd McMurtry. If that name sounds familiar to you, it’s because he is the man that made Nicholas Sandmann a multi-millionaire. And it looks like he will do the same for Kyle. Actually, in many ways, Rittenhouse was defamed much worse than Sandmann ever was. Kyle was labeled as a mass murderer.

by Blazingcatfur•June 5, 2022June 5, 2022•0•The Media Lies

Calling Poilievre a white supremacist over use of ‘Anglo Saxon’ disgusting and laughable

Have you heard the latest from the chattering classes about Pierre Poilievre?

They have proof that he’s a racist and a white supremacist because he used the term Anglo Saxon.

I wish I was making this up but there are actual stories out there making this claim by supposedly serious journalists.

We’ve all seen this movie. The political class & their left media minions are attempting to paint all criticism of immigration policy as white supremacist and the result of The Great Replacement bugaboo. God forbid you attempt to defend your culture, only Quebec and other government approved victims are allowed to do that. And heaven help us if you defend the rule of law against the left’s open borders madness. Didn’t you absorb the learnings of your CRT indoctrination class you evil white skinned oppressor?

In Canada our mainstream political parties and their corporate cronies favour a mass immigration policy that furthers their interests not yours. They care only about meeting their magic numbers and not the consequences of their choices. The following statement will have me labeled a proponent of The Great Replacement Theory: Sound immigration policy should benefit citizens not corporate earnings or the vote whoring lust of venal politicians. Call me what you want, I won’t stop discussing our destructive immigration policy.

Unfortunately for Canada dissent is being criminalized. Time to ditch your oppressor’s political parties.

by Blazingcatfur•May 20, 2022May 20, 2022•0•"Criminalizing Dissent", "Critical Race Theory" Crackpot Communism, "Mass Immigration - Follow the money", "Multiculturalism", Canada's Corporate Welfare Class, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class, Canada's Government Owned News Media, Conservative Party, The Great Replacement, The Media Lies

John Ivison: A banker’s cars firebombed in the night and progressive politicians stay silent

It’s time that progressive politicians condemn left-wing extremist violence with the same lack of equivocation as most conservatives denounce right-wing extremism

Former Conservative minister and senior RBC executive Michael Fortier and his family were asleep in their Montreal home at 1:30 a.m. on May 4, when he was woken by a neighbour banging on his drain pipe to warn him that the Jaguar and Land Rover parked in the driveway were on fire.

Well John that would require that your associates in the media also condemn “left-wing violence” and call out progressive politicians when they fail to do so. Facts are that the media for the most part are willing minions of the political class that seeks to criminalize “right-wing views.” Antifa, BLM, the Eco-Terrorists etc are their foot soldiers and they will continue to willingly turn a blind eye.

by Blazingcatfur•May 19, 2022May 19, 2022•0•"Criminalizing Dissent", "Progressive Paradise", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class, Canada's Government Owned News Media, The Media, The Media Lies

Google warns online news bill could make it subsidize biased news outlets – Like Sputnik, or CBC

OTTAWA — Google is warning that the federal government’s online news bill could force it to subsidize non-authoritative or biased news sources, such as the Russian state-sponsored news agency Sputnik.

But the organization representing Canada’s news media industry says the wording of the bill is tight and specifically excludes outlets that promote the interests of an organization.

Google argues the bill’s definition of an eligible news source is so broad that non-professional news outlets with two or more journalists in Canada, including those funded by foreign states, could be eligible for payment from tech giants.

by Blazingcatfur•May 14, 2022May 14, 2022•0•The Media, The Media Lies

‘Do you want to watch The Mandalorian or extra Brian Stelter?’ Axed CNN+ staffer ridicules flop streamer’s ‘dregs’ content

A CNN+ worker has branded his own network’s shows ‘the dregs’ of the network – as media reporter Brian Stelter raised eyebrows by questioning whether it was really a flop.

On Friday – a day after the three week-old streamer was axed after wasting $300 million – one disgruntled former CNN+ employee told Fox News the venture was always ill-conceived.

by Blazingcatfur•April 23, 2022April 23, 2022•0•The Media, The Media Lies

The Regime Media’s Quandary: By Exposing Joe Biden They Exonerate Donald Trump

The regime media (the amalgamation of the legacy media, elitist opinion writers, and the internet troika: Google/Facebook/Twitter) finds itself in a quandary of its own making. As the nation descends into recession and societal turmoil, the candidate for whom they prostituted themselves, Joe Biden, reveals on a daily basis that he is not mentally or physically capable of being President. Further, it has become increasingly more difficult to continuously obfuscate not only the ongoing revelations in Hunter Biden’s laptop but Joe’s life-long history of corruption and mendacity.

by Blazingcatfur•April 21, 2022April 20, 2022•0•"Joe Sleazebag Biden", The Media Lies, Trump Derangement Syndrome

CNN’s Brian Stelter about to get the boot?

It should have happened a long time ago.

But well, it’s happening now.

Brian Stelter, the television “journalist” who’s the suckup’s suckup in an industry full of stenographers, prevaricators, and teachers’ pets, may now be on his last legs at CNN.

by Blazingcatfur•April 16, 2022April 16, 2022•0•The Media, The Media Lies

Yes, the Media Bury the Race of Murderers—If They’re Not White

Frank James, the man arrested for Tuesday’s New York City subway shooting, is a black nationalist and outspoken racist who railed against whites, Jews, and Hispanics. A careful reader of the New York Times could be forgiven for overlooking that. In a nearly 2,000-word article on the attack, James’s race is not mentioned. The same is true for the coverage offered up by Reuters; the Washington Post only mentioned James’s race in relation to his condemnation of training programs for “low-income Black youths.”

by Blazingcatfur•April 15, 2022April 15, 2022•0•Batshit Crazy Progressive Racists, The Media, The Media Lies

Nolte: Big Cuts Expected at Flailing CNN+

“Investment in CNN+, the streaming service launched two weeks ago, is expected to be cut dramatically in response to low adoption,” reports the far-left Axios.

“The new company leadership has yet to decide the fate of CNN+. CNN’s new chief, Chris Licht, starts May 1,” the report adds.

by Blazingcatfur•April 12, 2022April 12, 2022•0•The Media, The Media Lies

Living with the crime of the century

The Times coverup and denial of Hunter Biden’s laptop, aided by Facebook and Twitter, has destroyed any trust we had left.

This is a tale between two newspapers, The New York Times versus the New York Post. The Post won…but too late.

The biggest losers are the American people.

Had the American people known the unsavory facts about Hunter Biden and his father, Joe, Trump would be enjoying his second term…and it does not matter if you love or hate Trump.

by Blazingcatfur•March 21, 2022March 21, 2022•0•"Joe Sleazebag Biden", The Media, The Media Lies