The Media’s Preferred Narrative

Media frets over Afghans and dead narcos

Not so much Specialist Sarah Beckstrom and Sergeant Andrew Wolfe

The New York Times had another heart-breaking story about poor scared immigrants worried that the mean old ICE will send them back. This time, the concerns are by legal aliens who are from Afghanistan.

Biden brought them to America by the thousand in his frenzy to surrender Afghanistan a month ahead of the 20th anniversary of 9/11. There was no way he was going to patiently negotiate with the Taliban for a peaceful transition of power.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inThe Media Lies, The Media's Preferred Narrative

Establishment Media Lost Control of Election Narrative

The establishment media’s control over framing the election narrative is “shattered,” Axios’s Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen acknowledged Monday.

The report confirms Gallup polling that shows Americans’ trust in the media is at an all-time low. For years, the media has pushed false narratives that involved Hunter Biden’s laptop story, Russian collusion, the source of the 2020 pandemic, the January 6 investigation, and numerous other hoaxes.

It appears the decision by many papers to abandon the tradition of candidate endorsement was guided at least in part by the market forces hammering the media.

Kamala alone is good reason to take a pass but some owners have decided that in a tough market it no longer makes  sense to alienate a huge segment of the public by reporting your bias rather than the truth.

Jeff Bezos says yes: No One Trusts Journalists and It’s Journalist’s Fault

We must be accurate, and we must be believed to be accurate. It’s a bitter pill to swallow, but we are failing on the second requirement. Most people believe the media is biased. Anyone who doesn’t see this is paying scant attention to reality, and those who fight reality lose. Reality is an undefeated champion. It would be easy to blame others for our long and continuing fall in credibility (and, therefore, decline in impact), but a victim mentality will not help. Complaining is not a strategy. We must work harder to control what we can control to increase our credibility.

Thankfully The Star, a mouthpiece of the Liberal gov’t and the recipient of involuntary tax payer funding, explains that the Washington Post and LA Times are bending the knee in fear of TrumpHitler who surely will silence all critical media! Case closed. Science settled. You are Hitler.

Billionaire owners of Washington Post and L.A. Times are bending the knee to Donald Trump

… The Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times — or more precisely the billionaire owners of those papers — announced late last week that they won’t endorse a candidate in the presidential election now only days away. Both organizations issued statements along the lines of “not telling our readers how to vote.” But it’s not much of a leap to conclude their owners are worried about retribution against their other business interests if they endorse Kamala Harris (as their editorial staffs wanted to do) and Donald Trump is elected.

Oh my … h/t DS

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inElection 2024, The Media, The Media Lies, The Media's Preferred Narrative

Biden Repeats the Police-Versus-Blacks Myth

Author and journalist Edward Jay Epstein, who died at 88 in January, “made a career of questioning accepted narratives, from the Kennedy assassination to the Black Panthers to the diamond industry.” In his last book, Assume Nothing: Encounters with Assassins, Spies, Presidents, and Would-be Masters of the Universe, Epstein revisited many of those narratives, including one still clinging to the Black Panthers.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inThe Media's Preferred Narrative

Our Unbiased Objective Media: Poilievre tweets so-called Kelowna homeless video

Poilievre compares Kelowna homeless encampment to “third-world country”

Sunshine, lakes, golf and wine.

Ask any Western Canadian what the Okanagan is best known for, and most answers will be those four topics.

This piece is dismissive of the video and its source, a citizen who documents the homeless situation.

It makes you wonder if they aren’t embarassed for having failed to have exposed this very real tragedy themselves.

I guess they have better things to do, like cover Trudeaus ass.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inThe Media, The Media Lies, The Media's Preferred Narrative

The Washington Post’s gross partisan practice when reporting on alleged sex crimes

 

The Washington Post, as of Monday morning, has four articles on its website about the child pornography arrest of Patrick Wojahn, the mayor of College Park, Maryland. Wojahn resigned in disgrace last month.

Read every one of those stories, and you will not learn that he is a Democrat and a longtime activist for gay rights and abortion.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inThe Media's Preferred Narrative

Measuring the Canadian news media’s great awokening

… Terms displaying the starkest increase in prominence between 2010 and 2021 are those relating to gender-identity prejudice, which saw a staggering 2,285 per cent increase. In contrast, terms referring to sexual orientation prejudice have actually mildly decreased in prevalence since their 2011 peak. Terms referring to sexism or Islamophobia peaked near the middle of the decade, while others, like racism or transphobia, seem to have peaked later in the decade. Notably, references to antisemitism do not display a clear upwards post-2010 trend.

Different but as nutty as the press anywhere.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inThe Media, The Media Lies, The Media's Preferred Narrative

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

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

Lying About Leicester Once again, the media act as if it’s job is not to report the news, but to manage the Narrative

Above, a British police officer works to keep the vibrancy from getting out of hand in Leicester.

One of the frequent themes of this blog is that the news media exist primarily not to report the news, but to manage the Narrative. This from the BBC is a perfect example:

Police and community leaders have called for calm after large numbers of people became involved in disorder in parts of East Leicester.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, The Media, The Media Lies, The Media's Preferred Narrative

OH FFS… How close is too close to the far-right? Why some experts are worried about Canada’s MPs

On June 30, Conservative leadership candidate Pierre Poilievre made a choice.

Wearing a crisp blue shirt and a politician’s smile, he walked up to a group of anti-vaccine mandate protesters and led the pack as it walked down Ottawa’s streets.

Beside him marched a man named James Topp, an anti-vaccine figure now set to face a court martial, who had been walking across the country to draw attention to his opposition to vaccine mandates. Topp, however, had recently joined a podcast run by far-right figurehead Jeremy Mackenzie for over an hour, saying that the podcast and others like it “kept (him) hanging on.” Mackenzie said in January that the “Freedom Convoy,” which gathered in Ottawa in February, could “bring down the government.”

The “Experts” are the usual suspects that populate the perpetual anti-conservative media feedback loop. Frankly this expert is concerned that the  world is just too  awful for them. Medication is likely required.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, The Media, The Media Lies, The Media's Preferred Narrative, WTF?

How the media lost touch with reality

Batya Ungar-Sargon on the ‘Great Awokening’ of American journalism.

The American mainstream media are losing touch with reality. Journalists are increasingly drawn from elite backgrounds, and newsrooms are coalescing around a woke worldview. The media’s interest in race, gender and sexuality has exploded, while class issues and economic concerns struggle to get a look in. And when stories arrive that disrupt the woke narrative – from the acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse to Jussie Smollett’s hate-crime hoax – journalists often find themselves on the wrong side of the truth. How did the American media get into this state? And how can proper journalism recover?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inThe Media, The Media Lies, The Media's Preferred Narrative

The Media’s Color-Coded Parenting Standard: White parents of school shooters are culpable; black parents of inner-city gangbangers are blameless.

On April 19, 2021, McDonald’s CEO Chris Kempczinski suggested in a text to Chicago’s mayor that the parents of two children recently killed in Chicago’s gang activity had “failed those kids.” Kempczinski’s text became public in November 2021, prompting widespread accusations of racism and calls for his resignation. Kempczinski confessed to his white privilege and apologized profusely for holding parents responsible for the fate of their children.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBatshit Crazy Progressive Hypocrites, The Media, The Media Lies, The Media's Preferred Narrative

When All The Media Narratives Collapse

In case after case, the US MSM just keeps getting it wrong.

The news is a perilous business. It’s perilous because the first draft of history is almost always somewhat wrong, and needs a second draft, and a third, and so on, over time, until the historian can investigate with more perspective and calm. The job of journalists is to do as best they can, day by day, and respond swiftly when they screw up, correct the record, and move forward. I’ve learned this the hard way, not least in the combination of credulousness and trauma I harbored in the wake of 9/11.

But when the sources of news keep getting things wrong, and all the errors lie in the exact same direction, and they are reluctant to acknowledge error, we have a problem. If you look back at the last few years, the record of errors, small and large, about major stories, is hard to deny. It’s as if the more Donald Trump accused the MSM of being “fake news” the more assiduously they tried to prove him right.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inThe Media, The Media Lies, The Media's Preferred Narrative

The Real Crime in Kenosha

It’s injustice from top to bottom in Kenosha, and it’s provoked by the media.

The media crime syndicate strikes again, targeting a teenager and creating mayhem in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Will they pay a price? Doubtful.

Kenosha, Wisconsin, a mid-sized midwestern town on the west side of Lake Michigan, has around 99,000 residents. There are family-owned restaurants and businesses and neighbors know one another. Kenosha is about five minutes from the Illinois border. It’s two hours to Chicago or Madison and 45 minutes to Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inThe Media, The Media Lies, The Media's Preferred Narrative