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    I figured we needed a thread specifically about the media.

    There was a very big correction recently by the Washington Post.


    That story was supposedly "independently confirmed" by CNN, NBC News, USA Today, ABC News, & PBS News Hour. How could they all have gotten the quote wrong if they actually independently confirmed the story?






    Why do all the errors always go in one political direction and not closer to 50/50?
     
    You know we’re in trouble when Fox News emerges as the great defender of freedom of the press.

    But such was the case when Jacqui Heinrich, a senior political correspondent at Fox, responded to the news that Trump’s White House would now handpick the reporters who get to cover the president in small settings, with the post: “This move does not give the power back to the people – it gives power to the White House.”

    Heinrich was specifically responding to press secretary Karoline Leavitt’s Orwellian claim that letting Donald Trump choose who would cover him was designed to restore power “back to the American people”.

    The fruits of the new policy were richly on display during the sickening scene that unfolded in the Oval Office last week. If the president and JD Vance’s disgraceful treatment of Volodymyr Zelenskyy wasn’t bad enough, there was the unprecedented role that the “press” played in the unseemly drama.……

    www.theguardian.com

    Trump is turning the media into a mouthpiece of the regime | Lawrence Douglas

    As the White House handpicks members of the press pool, questions for the president amount to fluffy valentines
    www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
     
    Longtime Washington Post columnist Ruth Marcus submitted her resignation on Monday after an op-ed she wrote disagreeing with owner Jeff Bezos’ new mandate for the storied paper’s opinion page was rejected by the Post’s publisher.

    Marcus — who has been with the Post since 1984 as an editor, reporter and columnist — sent her resignation letter to both Bezos and publisher Will Lewis, telling them that she had never encountered one of her pieces being rejected in her nearly 20 years of column-writing. The letter was first reported by The New York Times.

    As of publication, no communication of Marcus’ resignation had been sent to the Post newsroom, according to internal sources. A spokesperson for the paper did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

    Marcus quitting the Post after more than four decades with the publication comes roughly a week after the paper’s mega-billionaire owner sparked outrage among the paper’s staff and subscription base when he handed down a new direction for the Post’s opinion page..........

    In her resignation letter, Marcus wrote that she “cherished my four decades at the Post” and stated that as an opinion writer, she had been “honored to offer commentary that readers could be assured constituted my best independent judgment of the topic at hand.” Lewis’ rejection of her latest op-ed that denounced Bezos’ new opinion policy, however, was a bridge too far.

    “Unfortunately, on the opinions side of the newspaper, that appears to be no longer the case,” Marcus wrote. “Jeff’s announcement that the opinion section will henceforth not publish views that deviate from the pillars of individual liberties and free markets threatens to break the trust of readers that columnists are writing what they believe, not what the owner has deemed acceptable.”

    She continued: “Will’s decision to not run the column that I wrote respectfully dissenting from Jeff’s edict — something that I have not experienced in almost two decades of column-writing — underscores that the traditional freedom of columnists to select the topics they wish to address and say what they think has been dangerously eroded.”

    She concluded her letter to the Post’s owner and publisher by telling them “it breaks my heart to conclude that I must leave,” adding that she had the “deepest affection and admiration” for her colleagues and wished them “the best as you steer this storied and critical institution through troubled times.”..............

    www.the-independent.com

    WaPo columnist quits and accuses publisher of killing op-ed critical of Bezos

    Ruth Marcus said that the publisher’s decision to spike her column ‘underscores that the traditional freedom of columnists to select the topics they wish to address and say what they think has been dangerously eroded’
    www.the-independent.com www.the-independent.com
     
    Optimus Prime said:
    Longtime Washington Post columnist Ruth Marcus submitted her resignation on Monday after an op-ed she wrote disagreeing with owner Jeff Bezos’ new mandate for the storied paper’s opinion page was rejected by the Post’s publisher.

    Marcus — who has been with the Post since 1984 as an editor, reporter and columnist — sent her resignation letter to both Bezos and publisher Will Lewis, telling them that she had never encountered one of her pieces being rejected in her nearly 20 years of column-writing. The letter was first reported by The New York Times.

    As of publication, no communication of Marcus’ resignation had been sent to the Post newsroom, according to internal sources. A spokesperson for the paper did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

    Marcus quitting the Post after more than four decades with the publication comes roughly a week after the paper’s mega-billionaire owner sparked outrage among the paper’s staff and subscription base when he handed down a new direction for the Post’s opinion page..........

    In her resignation letter, Marcus wrote that she “cherished my four decades at the Post” and stated that as an opinion writer, she had been “honored to offer commentary that readers could be assured constituted my best independent judgment of the topic at hand.” Lewis’ rejection of her latest op-ed that denounced Bezos’ new opinion policy, however, was a bridge too far.

    “Unfortunately, on the opinions side of the newspaper, that appears to be no longer the case,” Marcus wrote. “Jeff’s announcement that the opinion section will henceforth not publish views that deviate from the pillars of individual liberties and free markets threatens to break the trust of readers that columnists are writing what they believe, not what the owner has deemed acceptable.”

    She continued: “Will’s decision to not run the column that I wrote respectfully dissenting from Jeff’s edict — something that I have not experienced in almost two decades of column-writing — underscores that the traditional freedom of columnists to select the topics they wish to address and say what they think has been dangerously eroded.”

    She concluded her letter to the Post’s owner and publisher by telling them “it breaks my heart to conclude that I must leave,” adding that she had the “deepest affection and admiration” for her colleagues and wished them “the best as you steer this storied and critical institution through troubled times.”..............

    www.the-independent.com

    WaPo columnist quits and accuses publisher of killing op-ed critical of Bezos

    Ruth Marcus said that the publisher’s decision to spike her column ‘underscores that the traditional freedom of columnists to select the topics they wish to address and say what they think has been dangerously eroded’
    www.the-independent.com www.the-independent.com
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    I hope that she will join the contrairians on substack where a lot of the other writers has moved to. They post some really good oppinions pieces

    https://substack.com/@contrarian
     

    Add to that, every pundit interview where a GOP official makes the claim that they inherited a failing economy when there is irrefutable evidence to the contrary.
     
    Guess this can go here
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    The association hosting the White House correspondents' dinner has cancelled its headline comedy performance for this year's event after tensions with the Trump administration.

    Comedian Amber Ruffin was scheduled to perform at the annual dinner next month, but the White House Correspondents' Association (WHCA) announced on Saturday that it had scrapped her appearance.

    In a memo to members, the association said the event's "focus is not on the politics of division", but was rather to honour the work of White House journalists.

    The move comes after the White House attacked the association for choosing Ruffin as a headliner due to her criticism of US President Donald Trump.

    Taylor Budowich, the White House deputy chief of staff, reacted to the association's decision to scrap Ruffin's performance by saying it is a "cop out."

    "No accountability at the WHCA, just a cop out statement - pathetic!" wrote Budowich on Saturday in a post on X.

    He went on to criticise Ruffin, an Emmy and Tony nominated comedian and writer, as "hate-filled".

    WHCA president Eugene Daniels announced Ruffin as the headliner last month, saying she was chosen because her "unique talents are the ideal fit for this current political and cultural climate".……

    www.bbc.com

    Amber Ruffin: Comedian dropped from hosting White House correspondents' dinner

    Ruffin has been attacked by the White House for being critical of the Trump administration.
    www.bbc.com www.bbc.com

     

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