On Tuesday, NewsBusters reported that the broadcast networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC had abandoned the environmental fallout from the February 3 train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio on their flagship morning and evening shows with zero seconds on ABC and only a minute and 42 seconds on CBS and NBC after an evacuation order was lifted on February 8.
NEW YORK (AP) — Half of Americans in a recent survey indicated they believe national news organizations intend to mislead, misinform or persuade the public to adopt a particular point of view through their reporting.
The survey, released Wednesday by Gallup and the Knight Foundation, goes beyond others that have shown a low level of trust in the media to the startling point where many believe there is an intent to deceive.
Asked whether they agreed with the statement that national news organizations do not intend to mislead, 50% said they disagreed. Only 25% agreed, the study found.
It’s apparent to everyone that our media elites adored Barack Obama, in deeply embarrassing fashion. But on Monday’s CNN This Morning, Don Lemon protested when co-host Kaitlin Collins relayed “Democratic party leaders say that President Biden may still be the ticket for 2024 even if they’re not passionate about him.”
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.
CNN has never been “Facts First.” Don Lemon hosted a segment on today’s CNN This Morning to discuss Ron DeSantis’s decision to uphold the Florida State Department of Education’s decision to deny the College Board the opportunity to run a pilot AP (Advanced Placement) course on African American Studies pushing themes like “Intersectionality and Activism.”
This is an earlier clip, my favourite Don Lemon slap down.
Hey @donlemon!
Claiming #reparations from the UK for slavery is like claiming reparations from the discoverer of penicillin for being responsible for the diseases penicillin cures.
So maybe just stfu!pic.twitter.com/oSjwWBXice
— Nicholas Clamorgan 🇺🇸 (@Nick_Clamorgan) September 21, 2022
Gaslighting over the banning of gas stoves underscores the need to keep facts inconvenient to the fascist far-left from disappearing down the memory hole.
You know the drill by now: Bloomberg News had a story on January 9: “US Safety Agency to Consider Ban on Gas Stoves Amid Health Fears,” based on one study. The resulting backlash was swift and sure, but instead of admitting their mistake of banning first and asking questions later, national socialist media sources went for the propaganda options of denial and ridicule, because that’s always conducive to discourse in a free society that values liberty and limited government.
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.
AP takes millions from groups leveraged in green investments to promote the need for green investments.
The Associated Press revealed last year that it had scored $8 million to promote claims of global warming. The AP impartially described this massive conflict of interest as an illustration of “how philanthropy has swiftly become an important new funding source for journalism”.
“This far-reaching initiative will transform how we cover the climate story,” its executive editor claimed. That is no doubt true. And an incredibly damaging admission.
With Republicans set to take control of the House, GOP congressional leaders have promised to hold President Biden, his administration, and federal bureaucrats to account and get to the truth on key issues. But after a series of dragged-out investigations into former President Trump and other Republicans, CNN had suddenly had their fill of congressional inquiries with correspondent Randi “Kush” Kaye scoffing at Republicans during Monday’s Anderson Cooper 360.
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.
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.
On Monday and Tuesday, brave journalists tasked by Twitter owner Elon Musk exposed the corruption and bias against conservatives and the sinister collusion between the social media platform and the government that took place under the previous ownership. This rare act of journalism by non-conservative reporters has been dubbed the Twitter files, and once again has been ignored by the leftist news networks.
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.
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”.
Brandy Zadrozny’s appearance on Friday’s The 11th Hour on MSNBC with host Stephanie Ruhle raised the question of whether or not the duo read the same Twitter thread as everybody else, because Zadrozny claimed Matt Taibbi’s thread detailing how Twitter suppressed the New York Post article on Hunter Biden’s laptop actually makes Twitter look good.
