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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?

 

[fooferdoggie]

What are you trying to say with this tweet?

who knows I thought trump called anyone who was after him part of the deep state. Now they are great?

 

[bird]

Media admitting again there is a deep state.

There is no such thing as the deep state. There is a civil service bureaucracy that TFG wants to do away with. The civil service act, irc, passed either during or after Grant’s terms was designed to eliminate precisely the deep state that TFG would create by stuffing fawning sycophants into government positions in control of the bureaucracy.

 

[LA - L.A.]

Media admitting again there is a deep state.

 

[SaintForLife]

 

[bird]

And?

 

[DJ1BigTymer]

 

[SaintForLife]

 

[J-DONK]

I would actually agree that the White House at times has way to close of a relationship with the media.

How do you feel about this? Is this like everything else with you: Morals, and ethics only applies to one party?

Report: President Trump and Sean Hannity talk nearly every weeknight

New York magazine reports that their phone conversations, a way to "decompress" at the end of the day, range from discussing the "witch hunt" against the president to "gabbing like old girlfriends about media gossip and whose show sucks and who's getting killed in the ratings and who's winning."

www.usatoday.com

 

[SaintForLife]

I would actually agree that the White House at times has way to close of a relationship with the media.

How do you feel about this? Is this like everything else with you: Morals, and ethics only applies to one party?

Report: President Trump and Sean Hannity talk nearly every weeknight

New York magazine reports that their phone conversations, a way to "decompress" at the end of the day, range from discussing the "witch hunt" against the president to "gabbing like old girlfriends about media gossip and whose show sucks and who's getting killed in the ratings and who's winning."

www.usatoday.com

I don't like that and Hannity is a complete idiot, but the Greenwald post was just highlighting the obvious hypocrisy of Chuck Todd while all the cable networks especially NBC hire people from Democrat administrations.

I don't watch any corporate news except local news. It's all trash.

 

[MT15]

all the cable networks especially NBC hire people from Democrat administrations.

This is disingenuous. They hire people from both parties. Not just Democratic administrations.

 

[DJ1BigTymer]

This is disingenuous. They hire people from both parties. Not just Democratic administrations.

If she wasn't an insurrectionist, it wouldn't have been a thing, case and point, former RNC Chair Michael Steele.

 

[LA - L.A.]

...NBC hire people from Democrat administrations.

They also hire people from Republican administrations and organizations, as you just pointed out they just hired the former RNC Chair.

 

[LA - L.A.]

I don't watch any corporate news except local news. It's all trash.

Do you think the local news you watch is trash just like all "corporate news?" You'd be consistent in thinking that even the local news you watch is "corporate news" trash if you're watching local stations owned by Sinclair. Here's some information about Sinclair and their local news.

Sinclair Made Dozens of Local News Anchors Recite the Same Script (Published 2018)

Last month, anchors at local news stations across the country made identical comments about media bias. The script came from their owner, Sinclair Broadcast Group.

www.nytimes.com

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08838151.2019.1653103

How Sinclair Broadcasting puts a partisan tilt on trusted local news

The country’s largest owner of local TV stations, the Sinclair Broadcast Group, which reaches over a third of homes across the nation, wants to get even bigger by merging with the Tribune Media Company. But Sinclair is raising concerns among media watchers because of its practice of combining...

www.pbs.org

Why are Sinclair’s scripted news segments such a big deal?

It’s worth looking at how local news stations have traditionally operated.

theconversation.com

Sinclair Made Dozens of Local News Anchors Recite the Same Script (Published 2018)

Last month, anchors at local news stations across the country made identical comments about media bias. The script came from their owner, Sinclair Broadcast Group.

www.nytimes.com

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/04/02/598794433/video-reveals-power-of-sinclair-as-local-news-anchors-recite-script-in-unison

Sinclair just can’t stop embarrassing its employees and revealing its bias

www.mediamatters.org

Watch: dozens of local TV anchors read the same anti-"false news" script in unison

Dozens of anchors. Same Sinclair script.

www.vox.com

Sinclair chairman responds to criticism of controversial promos

David Smith, executive chairman of Sinclair Broadcast Group, defended promos featured in a viral video over the weekend, calling such segments "standard practice in the industry"

www.cbsnews.com

TV anchors decrying "fake" news put spotlight on Sinclair

A promo attacking the media is being recited on Sinclair-owned stations across the country and catching heat over a perceived politically tinged bias.

www.nbcnews.com

John Oliver: How Sinclair Broadcast Group 'Brainwashes' Local News

John Oliver explored how the largest owner of local TV stations in the country is forcing stations to air conservative-slanted segments.

www.rollingstone.com

The imminent conservative takeover of local TV news, explained

Thanks to Trump, Sinclair Broadcast Group will soon have all it needs to be the next big force in right-wing news.

www.vox.com

Sinclair Broadcast Group - Bias and Credibility

RIGHT BIAS These media sources are moderately to strongly biased toward conservative causes through story selection and/or political affiliation. They may

mediabiasfactcheck.com

 

[Optimus Prime]

Former RNC chair Ronna McDaniel axed by NBC after intense backlash

Severe criticism followed McDaniel’s hiring as a pundit, after she headed Republican National Committee during Trump years

www.theguardian.com

 

[SaintForLife]

This is disingenuous. They hire people from both parties. Not just Democratic administrations.

I didn't say they only hire people from Democrat administrations. All the cable news shows hire people from both Republican and Democrat administrations.

 

[SaintForLife]

NBC hosts had a public meltdown over their network hiring former RNC chair Ronna McDaniel, citing an appalling conflict of interest.

These same people were silent when their network hired:

-Jen Psaki, former Biden spokesperson
-Symone Sanders, former Biden/Harris aide
-John Brennan, former head of the CIA
-Nicolle Wallace, former Bush/Cheney spokesperson
-Countless other trained liars of the US security state

Greenwald: This is part of "the liberal ethos that is so important to understand...

The reason they never objected to the hiring of obvious Democratic Party spokespeople and the heads of the CIA, the FBI, the NSA... is because they don't regard those US security state agencies as menacing or dishonest. They regard those as their benevolent allies...

There's only one entity, one institution, in the eyes of news corporations that are a bridge too far, and that is people who are associated with the Trump-led Republican party."

At least this gave us the priceless spectacle of Chuck Todd lamenting that NBC would lend its sacred "credibility" to someone like Ronna McDaniel.

Greenwald: "Every poll shows that there are few institutions held in lower esteem than large media corporations like NBC... They don't have any credibility in the eyes of the American people...

These people live in a dream world where they're respected and beloved and trusted by the public."


The funniest part was when Chuck Todd said they were lending NBC's credibility to McDaniel.

NBC doesn't have any credibility outside of Washington DC and partisan Democrats.

 

[Optimus Prime]

NBC hosts had a public meltdown over their network hiring former RNC chair Ronna McDaniel, citing an appalling conflict of interest.

These same people were silent when their network hired:

-Jen Psaki, former Biden spokesperson
-Symone Sanders, former Biden/Harris aide
-John Brennan, former head of the CIA
-Nicolle Wallace, former Bush/Cheney spokesperson
-Countless other trained liars of the US security state

Greenwald: This is part of "the liberal ethos that is so important to understand...

The reason they never objected to the hiring of obvious Democratic Party spokespeople and the heads of the CIA, the FBI, the NSA... is because they don't regard those US security state agencies as menacing or dishonest. They regard those as their benevolent allies...

There's only one entity, one institution, in the eyes of news corporations that are a bridge too far, and that is people who are associated with the Trump-led Republican party."

At least this gave us the priceless spectacle of Chuck Todd lamenting that NBC would lend its sacred "credibility" to someone like Ronna McDaniel.

Greenwald: "Every poll shows that there are few institutions held in lower esteem than large media corporations like NBC... They don't have any credibility in the eyes of the American people...

These people live in a dream world where they're respected and beloved and trusted by the public."


The funniest part was when Chuck Todd said they were lending NBC's credibility to McDaniel.

NBC doesn't have any credibility outside of Washington DC and partisan Democrats.

 

[SaintForLife]

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