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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?
     
    https://www.dictionary.com/browse/virtue-signaling

    the sharing of one's point of view on a social or political issue, often on social media, in order to garner praise or acknowledgment of one’s righteousness from others who share that point of view, or to passively rebuke those who do not

    See: Neil Young
    Funny thing is, just like "cancel culture" and a few other conservative buzz phrases, conservatives were the ones who created and utilized the very concept for years and years before they started using them as weapons against others. That's why I don't think it means what you think it means... you can't identify it when your side does it, has does it, and darn near perfected it before others used it.
     
    Funny thing is, just like "cancel culture" and a few other conservative buzz phrases, conservatives were the ones who created and utilized the very concept for years and years before they started using them as weapons against others. That's why I don't think it means what you think it means... you can't identify it when your side does it, has does it, and darn near perfected it before others used it.
    Show me. I have no problem calling out disingenuous folks, I kind of like it so please, show me. I am sure there are examples.

    So you would agree then that Neil Young and the whole Spotify thing is just virtue signaling, correct?
     
    Show me. I have no problem calling out disingenuous folks, I kind of like it so please, show me. I am sure there are examples.

    So you would agree then that Neil Young and the whole Spotify thing is just virtue signaling, correct?
    Actually, I don't. "Virtue signaling" tends to mean one doesn't believe the "signaling" -- say, wearing a flag lapel pin as if one is a true patriot but then not doing anything about it. Young definitely did something about it.

    But yeah, conservatives and especially conservative politicians have been "signaling" for years, with things like the aforementioned flag pins, flying flags/having flag decals on cars, making overt public professions of faith ("in god we trust" license plate decals in Georgia for instance that cover the county placeholder which is required for all other license plates), "honoring" the military (but then when it comes time to funding the VA, or vets pensions, forgetting all about them), 9/11 signaling yet refusing to pass the First Responders Bill until Jon Stewart shamed them, claiming family values/virtues but then being caught in extramarital affairs, homosexual activity, illegal activity, claiming rugged individuality yet accepting government corporate handouts.... the list is numerous and more far-reaching in scope and application than calling out someone for old racist/sexist/homophobic speech or whatever social issue has gotten under conservatives skin lately.
     
    If you really want a good example of virtue signaling go to the inventors.

    Newt and his Contract with America, and every last one of the signers turned out to be either a cheater, a pedo or both.

    That dead sack of shirt Limbaugh (who I hope necropheliacs find his fat arse) and his tough in drug users while he was a junkie.

    Neocons to the person, however, took their lessons from the inventor of it- Ronald Reagan and his Moral Majority.

    Libs are virtue signaling? Please. You guys’ entire platform is one giant virtue signal of Patriotism and Christian values that none of you follow.
     
    This thread was started by someone criticizing WaPo for a mistake in reporting. They knew about the mistake because WaPo ran a correction.

    Here is a thread examining how a Fox “News” correspondent tweeted out a false report, found out it was false after only 1600 people had retweeted it, but left it up without a correction until the next day, by which time it had been retweeted about 40,000 times and shared to numerous right wing sites. Her correction, when it finally came, didn’t thread to the original, which she also never deleted (at this time). So while she finally tweeted a correction, her original false story is still being shared and magnified in the right wing bubble. This is at best irresponsible and at worst reckless. It could lead to actual violence against the police who were falsely accused of causing a woman’s death. Fox is a national security risk.



    It’s a whole thread if you follow the link.
     
    This is a good explainer of Rogan’s media presence. It’s a whole thread, with clips and examples. It covers his Covid takes, which are really bad, but it could apply to him in general also.

     
    I think this goes here. Or at least fits best here out of the numerous spots it could be posted.


    I don't think there is a paywall. Pretty good read on how we talk about all of this.
     
    Guess this is the best thread for this, but it could have gone in several

    Very interesting point about the media coverage which I did notice
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    While on air, CBS News senior foreign correspondent Charlie D’Agata stated last week that Ukraine “isn’t a place, with all due respect, like Iraq or Afghanistan, that has seen conflict raging for decades. This is a relatively civilized, relatively European – I have to choose those words carefully, too – city, one where you wouldn’t expect that, or hope that it’s going to happen”.

    If this is D’Agata choosing his words carefully, I shudder to think about his impromptu utterances. After all, by describing Ukraine as “civilized”, isn’t he really telling us that Ukrainians, unlike Afghans and Iraqis, are more deserving of our sympathy than Iraqis or Afghans?

    Righteous outrage immediately mounted online, as it should have in this case, and the veteran correspondent quickly apologized, but since Russia began its large-scale invasion on 24 February, D’Agata has hardly been the only journalist to see the plight of Ukrainians in decidedly chauvinistic terms.

    The BBC interviewed a former deputy prosecutor general of Ukraine, who told the network: “It’s very emotional for me because I see European people with blue eyes and blond hair … being killed every day.” Rather than question or challenge the comment, the BBC host flatly replied, “I understand and respect the emotion.” On France’s BFM TV, journalist Phillipe Corbé stated this about Ukraine: “We’re not talking here about Syrians fleeing the bombing of the Syrian regime backed by Putin. We’re talking about Europeans leaving in cars that look like ours to save their lives.”

    In other words, not only do Ukrainians look like “us”; even their cars look like “our” cars. And that trite observation is seriously being trotted out as a reason for why we should care about Ukrainians…….

    And writing in the Telegraph, Daniel Hannan explained: “They seem so like us. That is what makes it so shocking. Ukraine is a European country. Its people watch Netflix and have Instagram accounts, vote in free elections and read uncensored newspapers. War is no longer something visited upon impoverished and remote populations.”

    What all these petty, superficial differences – from owning cars and clothes to having Netflix and Instagram accounts – add up to is not real human solidarity for an oppressed people. In fact, it’s the opposite. It’s tribalism. These comments point to a pernicious racism that permeates today’s war coverage and seeps into its fabric like a stain that won’t go away. The implication is clear: war is a natural state for people of color, while white people naturally gravitate toward peace……….

     
    Vile and disgusting, as is usual for the fish stick heir:


    Did that despicable mitch ask those same questions about Amy??? No, cause Amy is Amy and of course she's qualified. Now that trump is out of office it's clear that Putin needs a new holster, I vote we send comrade tucker to fill that need.
     
    Literally the entire legal profession is pointing and laughing at this. Tucker very seriously thinks that an LSAT score is the metric upon which great legal minds are judged.


     
    I seriously doubt he thinks that. He just wants to put into peoples’ minds that there’s some sort of secret being kept there. That she may not be actually qualified. Because he is a racist.

    Yeah agree. Just another example of where he knows better but sows this crap anyway.
     

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