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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