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[SaintForLife]

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?

 

[DJ1BigTymer]

 

[DJ1BigTymer]

This is why there is a mentally challenged person in the WH. The people who voted for him are being fed misinformation 24/7 from the clowns at Faux Newz.

 

[Saint Jack]

This is why there is a mentally challenged person in the WH. The people who voted for him are being fed misinformation 24/7 from the clowns at Faux Newz.

They also took down the stock market tracker.

 

[DJ1BigTymer]

They also took down the stock market tracker.

Of course they did, they have their orders!!!

 

[Optimus Prime]

Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson is leaving the newspaper, the second such veteran to exit in the wake of owner Jeff Bezos’ directive that the Post narrow the topics covered by its opinion section to personal liberties and the free market.

Robinson, 71, has worked at the Post since 1980 and been a columnist since 2005, winning a Pulitzer Prize for his work focused on the election of Barack Obama as the nation’s first Black president in 2008.

In a memo to colleagues reported by The New York Times on Thursday, Robinson said the “significant shift” in the opinion section’s mission had encouraged him that it was time to move on.

Last month, columnist Ruth Marcus, who had worked at the newspaper since 1984, resigned after she said management decided not to run her commentary critical of Bezos’ policy. As the Post has faced turmoil in the past year, it has enforced a policy of not letting its staff members write about internal matters.……

Longtime Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson is leaving. He cited Bezos' new editorial policy

Pulitzer Prize winning columnist Eugene Robinson says he is leaving the Washington Post. He's the second prominent columnist in a month to depart after newspaper owner Jeff Bezos said he wanted its opinion section to focus on issues of personal liberties and the free market.

apnews.com

 

[Optimus Prime]

For years now, conservatives have reveled in Donald Trump's abrasive and coarse behavior in the political arena, applauding him for profanely raging at his political opponents while proudly flying flags with MAGAcatchphrases like “F*** Your Feelings.” At the same time, Trump supporters have embraced the meme “Let’s Go Brandon,” which is a euphemism for the phrase “F*** Joe Biden.”

However, now that Democrats and liberals have begun to openly curse in public with a little more frequency throughout Trump’s first 100 days in office, right-wing media is suddenly up in arms over the “undignified” language, claiming it’s “embarrassing” that they are “constantly swearing.”

Early last month, Politico noted that in the first couple of months of the new Trump administration, Democratic politicians were “cursing up a storm” as they “careened from strategy to strategy to respond” to the president and his chaotic White House. “But one unifying thread as they try to invigorate their connection to the American voter has been a reach for profanity,” Politico reported.


Adding that the “breadth of swearing is unmistakable,” Politico highlighted a number of examples, such as Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) repeatedly using the f-bomb to express her disgust with both Trump and “first buddy” Elon Musk. “Like I have a potty mouth, especially when I’m mad,” Crockett said of her use of profanity. “We’re working on it. We’re going to pray about it.”

Right-wing media, looking for their latest issue to be performatively outraged about, quickly took off with the story.

“You start to think they are going off the reservation and constantly swearing and howling at the moon to garner some type of resistance to what Trump is doing because they have no message,” conservative pundit Jeremy Hunt said on Fox News’ Outnumbered in March. “It is quite embarrassing for them.”

On the same broadcast, anchor Harris Faulknerasserted that the use of profanity by Democrats made them appear less intelligent and educated. “They got expensive educations,” she exclaimed. “Why are they out of words?! Oh my goodness! That’s all they do with words! I am dumbfounded that they have a license on bad ideas.”

During a March 5 airing of Fox News’ The Five, co-host Dana Perino reacted to Rep. Melanie Stansbury (D-NM) lashing out during a House Oversight Committee hearing on sanctuary cities, which featured the lawmaker saying it’s “total bulls***” that Trump’s immigration policies are making Americans safer. “I also want to go on the record and say I don’t understand the Democrats cursing,” Perino groused. “I find it unpersuasive and undignified.”

During another telecast of The Five days later, host Jesse Watters blasted the increased use of expletives by Democratic lawmakers, saying that “now they think cursing like drunken sailors will make the American people like them again.”……..

The ‘f*** your feelings’ crowd is suddenly getting really upset over Dems cussing

‘Democrats are embracing profanity,’ Fox News anchor Harris Faulkner exclaimed this week. ‘This is next level!’

www.independent.co.uk

 

[Optimus Prime]

CNN has brushed off criticism aimed at Scott Jennings after the political commentator spoke at Donald Trump’s rally Wednesday night - claiming it’s standard practice for its paid contributors to make political appearances.

While the network is defending the rally speech by Jennings, who has become an ubiquitous presence on CNN airwaves as the channel’s chief MAGA advocate, the cable news giant took a different stance when Fox News stars Sean Hannity and Jeanine Pirrowere brought up on a Trump campaign stage during the president's first term.

“Is that not collusion?” then-CNN anchor Don Lemon exclaimed after the 2018 rally appearances by Pirro and Hannity, who have long been outspoken Trump backers.


Hannity’s onstage appearance, in fact, caused such a widespread uproar that it prompted Fox News to quickly and publicly reprimand him while insisting that these types of campaign cameos wouldn’t occur in the future with Fox News employees.…….

CNN, which blasted Hannity’s Trump rally speech, shrugs off Jennings doing the same

Questions are being asked of the cable news giant after the appearance

www.independent.co.uk

 

[coldseat]

Serious question, why does the media continue to do these interviews with Trump? There is nothing gained from an interview with Trump. There are no clear answers and nothing of value is learned. All every interview with Trump turns into is a conspiracy and gaslighting propaganda tsunami were nothing of value is learned. I doubt they even get good ratings as nobody is really interested in watching Trump get interviewed, not even his supporters. People just catch the most outrageous clips on social media. The same can be said for Levitt's press briefings. Those of us that live in reality already know he's an incompetent, malignant head case. And no amount of clownish buffoonery is going to dissuade or change the minds of those that still support him. So what's the point? The "access" to him is pointless.

How about the media just report what the Trump administration is doing, not what's coming out of their mouths. Then have actual people with knowledge (and not Trump sycophants) on their media shows to discuss it. That's all they need to be doing with this administration.

 

[Booker]

Serious question, why does the media continue to do these interviews with Trump? There is nothing gained from an interview with Trump. There are no clear answers and nothing of value is learned. All every interview with Trump turns into is a conspiracy and gaslighting propaganda tsunami were nothing of value is learned. I doubt they even get good ratings as nobody is really interested in watching Trump get interviewed, not even his supporters. People just catch the most outrageous clips on social media. The same can be said for Levitt's press briefings. Those of us that live in reality already know he's an incompetent, malignant head case. And no amount of clownish buffoonery is going to dissuade or change the minds of those that still support him. So what's the point? The "access" to him is pointless.

How about the media just report what the Trump administration is doing, not what's coming out of their mouths. Then have actual people with knowledge (and not Trump sycophants) on their media shows to discuss it. That's all they need to be doing with this administration.

They do interviews with him because he's the President. The problem is they continue to treat him as if he's just another politician, as opposed to one acting in blatant defiance of the law and the Constitution.

 

[Optimus Prime]

Senior Trump adviser Kari Lake announced that she’d struck a deal with One America News to blast the right-wing channel’s pro-Trump propaganda out to the audience of Voice of America, making it clear what her intentions are for the government-run radio network.

“United States Agency for Global Media (USAGM) is excited to announce a partnership with One America News Network (OAN) to provide newsfeed services to USAGM networks, including Office of Cuba Broadcasting (OCB), Radio Martí, and Voice of America (VOA),” Lake posted Tuesday on social media.

Noting that OAN was offering “their newsfeed and video service free-of-charge,” Lake acknowledged that while she may not have editorial control over VOA content in her role as senior adviser to the agency, she “can ensure our outlets have reliable and credible options as they work to craft their reporting and news programs.”

“And every day I look for ways to save American taxpayers money. Bringing in OAN as a video/news source does both,” she added. “OAN is one of the few family-owned American media networks left in the United States. We are grateful for their generosity.”……….

Kari Lake announces partnership between OAN and Voice of America to push MAGA message

‘Kari Lake providing One America News Network to our global audiences makes a mockery of the agency's history of independent non-partisan journalism,’ former USAGM Chief Financial Officer Grant Turner said in response

www.independent.co.uk

 

[Optimus Prime]

When hundreds of thousands of Americans gathered across the US on 5 April for the “Hands Off” eventsprotesting Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s governmental wrecking ball, much of the news media seemed to yawn.

The next day, the New York Times put a photograph, but no story, on its print front page. The Wall Street Journal’s digital homepage had it as only the 20th-most-prominent story when I checked.

Fox News was dismissive; I stopped counting after I scanned 40 articles on its homepage, though there was a video with this dismissive headline: “Liberals rally against President Trump.”

The Guardian, CNN and some local news outlets paid more heed. The cable network offered live video from many American cities and a banner headline: “Millions of people protest against Trump & Musk.”

But overall, there was something of a shrug about the media coverage. It got much more attention from global news outlets than in the US.

The US media will get a chance to atone for these sins of omission this coming weekend when Americans once again get together, this time for Saturday’s “No Kings” day, which organizers describe as “a nationwide day of defiance”.

“From city blocks to small towns, from courthouse steps to community parks, we’re taking action to reject authoritarianism,” they say. More than 100 pro-democracy groups are involved, according to Axios.

It’s expected to be the largest anti-Trump protest since the start of his second term, according to organizers who are planning rallies in 1,500 cities in all 50 states.

It’s happening, in part, as a reaction to the military parade in Washington DC that Trump has planned on his 79th birthday and the US army’s 250th anniversary.…….

In my American Crisis newsletter two days after the 5 April protests, I offered a few theories for why the media may seem so blasé.

First, I posited, much of the mainstream media tends to view this much as Fox News does. The protesters are just the usual suspects – “liberals” – doing the predictable thing.

Second, many large media companies are afraid that prominent protest coverage will be criticized by the political right as partisan, and they can’t bear that label.

Third, corporate media decision-makers, always focused the bottom line, are fearful of losing right-leaning readers and viewers; yes, we’ll cover this, they seem to say, but quietly, since we don’t want to antagonize anyone.

In an era in which Trump has attempted to bully the press into submission, through denying access and through lawsuits, cowardice and capitulation are all too common……..

Why is the media ignoring growing resistance to Trump? | Margaret Sullivan

Protest actions like ‘Hands Off’ and ‘No Kings’ are sweeping across the US. But the media is barely paying attention

www.theguardian.com

 

[Optimus Prime]

US universities are facing the Trump regime’s fury.

The justification given by the regime is that universities are run by leftist ideologues, who have indoctrinated students to adopt supposedly leftist ideological orientations, as well as hostility to Israel, anti-whiteness and trans inclusivity.

Donald Trump and his allies believe the election gave them the mandate to crush America’s system of higher education.

But what may be less clear is that it is the mainstream media’s obsession with leftists on campus that has led to the current moment.

The US mainstream media has waged a decade-long propaganda campaign against American universities, culminating in the systematic misrepresentation of last year’s campus anti-war protests.

This campaign has been the normalizing force behind the Trump administration’s attack on universities, as well as a primary cause of his multiple electoral successes.

Unless the media recognizes the central role it has played, we cannot expect the attack to relent.

It is easy to pinpoint the time that US confidence in higher education started to drastically plummet – the year was 2015.

For those of us who have followed this attack throughout the last decade, there is no surprise about this date.

It was the year that a spate of political attacks against universities started to emerge, resurrecting the 1980s and 90s conservative panic about “political correctness on campus”, except this time in mainstream media outlets.

In 2016, the media scholar Moira Weigel, in an article in the Guardian entitled “Political correctness: how the right invented a phantom enemy”, laid out in detail how this attack, suddenly legitimized by mainstream media outlets, led to Trump’s 2016 victory.

Weigel singles out an enormously influential piece in the Atlantic by Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff, “The coddling of the American mind”. In it, Haidt and Lukianoff decried the supposed trend of shielding students from “words, ideas, and people that might cause them emotional discomfort”.

Haidt and Lukianoff’s goal was to suggest that younger generations were “coddled” and protected from emotional harm by college campuses, beginning a trend of infantilizing college students.

From 2015 on, much of the mainstream media went on a crusade to vilify universities for political correctness.

The Trump regime’s vicious targeting of US universities was justified and normalized by a decade of panicked op-eds about leftists on campus in the New York Times, which included laying the basis for the administration’s cynical attack on DEI (to understand the staggeringnumber of concern-trolling op-eds about leftists on campus the New York Times has published over the last decade, consider this article in Slate, by Ben Mathis-Lilly, about this exact topic; it was published in 2018.)………


It may surprise the reader to learn that during the last decade, the main “chill” at universities has not been “leftists on campus”. It has instead been a relentless attack on college professors and students by rightwing outlets.

In 2016, Turning Point USA introduced its “Professor Watchlist”, targeting supposedly radical professors on campus. Campus Reform is an outlet devoted to reporting on liberal professors for their speech – for example, by student reports, social media usage or academic publications.

For around a decade, Rod Dreher used his position as a senior editor at the American Conservative to target leftist academics, often to devastating effect.

And Canary Mission has steadily and for many years targeted professors for their advocacy for the Palestinian cause.

These are hardly the only, or even the most powerful, outlets involved in this long assault (I have not even mentioned Fox News). University professors are terrified of being targeted by these organizations.

Major mainstream media outlets have consistently failed to report on the rightwing media assault on college professors over the last two decades.

This exacerbated the effects of these attacks. In 2016, when Dreher targeted me in several posts for an offhand comment I made on a private Facebook post, I was inundated by hate mail and phone calls to my office. This was my first experience with such an attack; it deeply destabilized me.

In the meantime, my colleagues assured me that Dreher was simply a worried liberal with the sorts of concerns about free speech on campus they had been reading about in the liberal media they consumed (Dreher has since moved to Budapest, Hungary, where he is a fellow at the Danube Institute, a thinktank funded by Viktor Orbán autocratic government)……….

The mainstream media has enabled Trump’s war on universities | Jason Stanley

For the past decade, the US press has fueled a moral panic over leftists on campus while failing to report on the right’s assault

www.theguardian.com