mr6666 Posted December 3, 2019 Author Share Posted December 3, 2019 Trump Campaign Bans Bloomberg Reporters from Rallies, Says 'They Have Declared Their Bias Openly' https://www.newsweek.com/trump-campaign-bans-bloomberg-reporters-rallies-says-they-have-declared-their-bias-openly-1475144?utm_campaign=NewsweekTwitter&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Social Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr6666 Posted December 8, 2019 Author Share Posted December 8, 2019 LA Times Editorial: President Trump should be impeached- Editorial: We’ve seen enough. Trump should be impeached ".........We worried that impeaching Trump on essentially a party-line vote would be divisive. It is also highly likely that Trump would be — will be — acquitted by the Republican-controlled Senate, and that, rightly or wrongly, he would point to that in his reelection campaign as exoneration. But those concerns must yield to the overwhelming evidence that Trump perverted U.S. foreign policy for his own political gain. That sort of misconduct is outrageous and corrosive of democracy. It can’t be ignored by the House, and it merits a full trial by the Senate on whether to remove him from office....... It’s obvious that at least one article should cite Trump’s improper approaches to Ukraine, whether they are described as “bribery” (an offense specifically mentioned in the Constitution’s impeachment clause) or abuse of power. A separate article would be warranted for his outrageous efforts to obstruct Congress by keeping information from the impeachment inquiry. Finally, we continue to believe that the House should consider an article of impeachment addressing the actions Trump took to thwart or hobble special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation........ Holding the president accountable for gross abuse of power is the business of Congress. The House should get on with that business by writing articles of impeachment that make it clear to the Senate — and the American people — why the extraordinary remedy of impeachment is necessary. And Republicans who complain that the process is partisan could easily rectify that situation by abandoning their lockstep loyalty to Trump and looking at the facts. " https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2019-12-07/impeach-president-trump 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr6666 Posted December 9, 2019 Author Share Posted December 9, 2019 At Glitzy GOP Fundraiser, Devin Nunes Dodges Questions About Contact With Lev Parnas & has reporter ousted- ........ After The Intercept approached Nunes about his contacts with Parnas and whether he was involved with the effort to pressure the Ukrainian government, the California lawmaker sped off, walking through the Palace Hotel to the hotel’s lounge. Moments later, he returned with a cell phone, pointed at this reporter. He remained quiet while asked again about his calls. Nunes then conferred with a U.S. Capitol Police officer stationed at the event, who had The Intercept removed from the hotel. .... https://theintercept.com/2019/12/08/nrcc-new-york-fundraiser-gop-devin-nunes-lev-parnas/ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr6666 Posted December 9, 2019 Author Share Posted December 9, 2019 James Comey @Comey · 1h FYI: I offered to go on Fox & Friends to answer all questions. I can’t change their viewers on Donald Trump but hoped to give them some actual facts about the FB They booked me for tomorrow at 8 am. They just cancelled. Must have read the report. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Princess of Tap Posted December 10, 2019 Share Posted December 10, 2019 3 hours ago, jakeem said: Raw Story @RawStory Press secretary Stephanie Grisham throws fit about FBI trying to ‘overthrow’ Trump — hours after DOJ debunked it Press secretary Stephanie Grisham throws fit about FBI trying to ‘overthrow’ Trump — hours after... On Monday, the Justice Department inspector general released a report broadly clearing the FBI of misconduct in the Russia investigation and debunking the GOP’s conspiracy theories about federal... rawstory.com 8:47 PM · Dec 9, 2019·TweetDeck 2 hours ago, jakeem said: Brian J. Karem @BrianKarem This press secretary has never held a briefing. Her lies to the press have made everyone's life more difficult. She is merely a minister of propaganda. 8:42 PM · Dec 9, 2019·Twitter Web App A White House Press Secretary who refuses to communicate with or to brief the American media. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr6666 Posted December 11, 2019 Author Share Posted December 11, 2019 Sinclair Broadcast Group drops Boris Epshteyn's “must-run” segments ".........For over two years, Epshteyn’s “must-run” commentaries propagandizing for the Trump administration aired on Sinclair local news stations around the country. He will now purportedly be “moving into a sales-focused role with the company,” a source told NBC. After serving as a Trump aide, Epshteyn was hired by Sinclair as its chief political analyst. He predictably used the platform to defend administration policies, deflect from offensive comments by the president, and air softball interviews with Trump administration officials and other Republicans. While local news stations were forced to air Epshteyn’s segments, there was no natural audience for his commentary; a Media Matters review of his Sinclair commentary clips posted to YouTube found they typically received less than 50 views. Here are a few selections from Epshteyn’s commentaries:......... https://www.mediamatters.org/boris-epshteyn/sinclair-broadcast-group-drops-boris-epshteyns-must-run-segments 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr6666 Posted December 12, 2019 Author Share Posted December 12, 2019 Fox News Is Now a Threat to National Security The network’s furthering of lies from foreign adversaries and flagrant disregard for the truth have gotten downright dangerous. "....... It’s worse than lunacy, though. Fox’s bubble reality creates a situation where it’s impossible to have the conversations and debate necessary to function as a democracy. Facts that are inconvenient to President Trump simply disappear down Fox News’ “memory hole,” as thoroughly as George Orwell could have imagined in 1984. ... The threat posed to our democracy by Fox News is multifaceted: First and most simply, it’s clearly advancing and giving voice to narratives and smears backed and imagined by our foreign adversaries. Second, its overheated and bombastic rhetoric is undermining America’s foundational ideals and the sense of fair play in politics. Third, its unique combination of lies and half-truths has built a virtual reality so complete that it leaves its viewers too misinformed to fulfill their most basic responsibilities as citizens to make informed choices about the direction of the country. ....... Fox’s clear willingness to parry the wingnuttiest ideas in service of the president, long-term implications to the United States be damned, should worry all concerned about the state of the United States. The Ukraine myth is hardly the only example; .......... as the year has unfolded, Fox’s evening talk shows and its presidentially endorsed morning show have proven to be a particularly egregious and odious swamp of fetid, metastasizing lies and bad faith feedback loops that leave its viewers—and, notably, its Presidential Audience of One—foaming at the mouth with outrage ......... Fox News’ own masters of Orwellian doublespeak, its Hannitys, Carlsons, and Doocys, the ones who smugly declare down up and up down, aren’t even bothering to tell their viewers to ignore their eyes and ears, because the truth never even approaches their airtime. Let’s hope that Fox News today, unlike in Orwell’s world, doesn’t manage to succeed in transforming our country from a functional democracy into an authoritarian cult. " https://www.wired.com/story/fox-news-is-now-a-threat-to-national-security/ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Princess of Tap Posted December 16, 2019 Share Posted December 16, 2019 13 hours ago, jakeem said: Robert Reich @RBReich What do these newspapers have in common? NY Times Washington Post USA Today LA Times Salt Lake Tribune Tampa Bay Times Orlando Sentinel Boston Globe NY Daily News Chicago Sun-Times Philadelphia Inquirer SF Chronicle Their editorial boards have all called for impeachment. 2:54 PM · Dec 15, 2019·Twitter for iPhone The First Amendment lives. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr6666 Posted December 22, 2019 Author Share Posted December 22, 2019 Internet flabbergasted after NBC’s Chuck Todd named ‘Media personality of the year’: ‘Is this a joke? Serious question’ ...... while calling his Meet the Press the “gold standard” was met with derision and laughter on the internet which has long hammered the NBC host for his failures to push back at guests making ridiculous assertions as well as his habit of not asking follow-up questions. .... https://www.rawstory.com/2019/12/internet-flabbergasted-after-chuck-todd-named-media-personality-of-the-year-is-this-a-joke-serious-question/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr6666 Posted December 23, 2019 Author Share Posted December 23, 2019 Brian Stelter @brianstelter Spot-on, @Sulliview : "In an unceasing effort to be seen as neutral, journalists time after time fell into the trap of presenting facts and lies as roughly equivalent and then blaming political tribalism for not seeming to know the difference." =================================== The two big flaws of the media’s impeachment coverage — and what went right .........Their test was to cover the impeachment proceedings without getting mired in the usual traps: false equivalence; distraction by presidential stunt; rampant speculation; the use of squishy language; and what I called Barr-Letter Syndrome, a reference to the way the mainstream press allowed Attorney General William P. Barr last spring to mischaracterize the findings of the Mueller report. Now that Trump has been impeached, it’s not possible to say that the mainstream media has earned anything close to an A. Nor did they flunk out. Here’s a look.......... https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/the-two-big-flaws-of-the-medias-impeachment-coverage--and-what-went-right/2019/12/20/22c42e9c-2349-11ea-86f3-3b5019d451db_story.html 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr6666 Posted December 25, 2019 Author Share Posted December 25, 2019 Yeah, tell 'em ''Doormat-Chuck'........... ......cuz YOU oughta Know !! ======================================= How Disinformation Spreads, According to Chuck Todd Chuck Todd has had a front-row seat for the spread of disinformation. Here’s how he sees it happening and the media’s role in it https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/how-disinformation-spreads-according-to-chuck-todd-interview-929912/ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr6666 Posted December 27, 2019 Author Share Posted December 27, 2019 On 12/25/2019 at 4:39 PM, mr6666 said: Yeah, tell 'em ''Doormat-Chuck'........... ......cuz YOU oughta Know !! ======================================= How Disinformation Spreads, According to Chuck Todd Chuck Todd has had a front-row seat for the spread of disinformation. Here’s how he sees it happening and the media’s role in it https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/how-disinformation-spreads-according-to-chuck-todd-interview-929912/ The Christmas Eve Confessions of Chuck Todd That disinformation was going to overtake Republican politics was discoverable years before he says he discovered it. "....... Chuck Todd has essentially said that on the right there is an incentive structure that compels Republican office holders to use their time on Meet the Press for the spread of disinformation. So do you keep inviting them on air to do just that? If so, then you break faith with the audience and create a massive problem in real time fact-checking. If not, then you just broke the show in half. There is simply nothing in the playbook at Meet the Press that tells the producers what to do in this situation. As I have tried to show, they didn’t arrive here through acts of naiveté, but by willful blindness, malpractice among the experts in charge, an insider’s mentality, a listening breakdown, a failure of imagination, and sheer disbelief that the world could have changed so much upon people paid so well to understand it." http://pressthink.org/2019/12/the-christmas-eve-confessions-of-chuck-todd/ ========================================================================= -poor Chuck........too 'naive' for today's political reality?? “The point of modern propaganda isn’t only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr6666 Posted December 27, 2019 Author Share Posted December 27, 2019 Brian Stelter @brianstelter "We have this alternative media ecosystem that is driving a lot of disinformation. It is not understood by journalists or anyone really beyond a very small group of people who are really engaged with it," @EliotHiggins says https://firstdraftnews.org/latest/year-in-review-the-biggest-threat-is-failing-to-address-the-reality-of-online-alternative-media-ecosystems/ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr6666 Posted December 27, 2019 Author Share Posted December 27, 2019 Just now, mr6666 said: Brian Stelter @brianstelter "We have this alternative media ecosystem that is driving a lot of disinformation. It is not understood by journalists or anyone really beyond a very small group of people who are really engaged with it," @EliotHiggins says https://firstdraftnews.org/latest/year-in-review-the-biggest-threat-is-failing-to-address-the-reality-of-online-alternative-media-ecosystems/ Soledad O'Brien @soledadobrien · 6h Also mainstream media outlets frequently book guests who lie, intentionally, on their air. CNN is one such outlet. Instead of shunning those guests they are booked again and again and again. When CNN’s media reporter pretends his own news org isn’t part of this BS, it’s a problem 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr6666 Posted December 29, 2019 Author Share Posted December 29, 2019 Searching for truth in an era of 'alternative facts': Disinformation in the age of Trump On a special edition of "Meet the Press," top journalists discuss the challenges of finding the facts amid growing disinformation. "We live in an environment where people are able to spread crazy conspiracy theories and absolute falsehoods and lies," Baron said. "And that's made possible by the internet and social media. And people are drawn to sources of information, so-called information, that confirms their pre-existing points of view. And you know, that's what's contributing to this environment that we have today." ............. "if you want to propel your lie, just keep issuing falsehoods. The truth has one voice, but lies are infinite. You can continue to make more and more lies, which then wears out anybody trying to rebut them.” ........... https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/searching-truth-era-alternative-facts-disinformation-age-trump-n1108246?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Princess of Tap Posted January 2, 2020 Share Posted January 2, 2020 5 hours ago, jakeem said: Daniel Dale @ddale8 The circle of life: 1) White House emails a list of Trump accomplishments to entire media list 2) Washington Examiner publishes the press release as an "exclusive" 3) White House aide tweets the Examiner article 4) Trump retweets 11:36 PM · Jan 1, 2020·Twitter Web Client Propaganda is not journalism..... That is why the Kremlin has always been the king of propaganda and Putin as always seeks to destroy journalists and journalism. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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noah80 Posted January 12, 2020 Share Posted January 12, 2020 No White House Press Briefings in 301 Days Take the CNN challenge Can you identify your White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Princess of Tap Posted January 13, 2020 Share Posted January 13, 2020 22 hours ago, jakeem said: Axios @axios Seven former White House press secretaries joined six former State and Defense briefers for an open-letter CNN opinion piece arguing for a return to regular press briefings. Press secretary Stephanie Grisham called it "group think at its finest." 13 former press secretaries urge Trump White House to hold briefings again The Trump White House has not held a traditional press briefing since March 11. axios.com 11:30 AM · Jan 12, 2020·TweetDeck 22 hours ago, jakeem said: HuffPost @HuffPost It's been more than 300 days since the White House press secretary gave an official briefing Former White House Officials Call For Return Of Regular Press Briefings It's been more than 300 days since the White House press secretary gave an official briefing, huffpost.com 2:20 AM · Jan 11, 2020·SocialFlow trump's hatred of the Constitution's 1st Amendment and American journalists is simply his desire that the American people not know what is really going on in his administration. He figures you have to accept his lies if no one tells you the truth. It didn't work for Johnson and Vietnam-- It didn't work for Nixon and Watergate- And it won't work for trump. trump has no credibility with the American people-- even if he's the last person to know that. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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mr6666 Posted January 25, 2020 Author Share Posted January 25, 2020 NPR @NPR · 30m Without giving evidence, @SecPompeo accused @NPRKelly of lying to him — "twice." "Let me just say this: we will not be intimidated," NPR President and CEO John Lansing told @npratc . "Mary Louise Kelly won't be intimidated, and NPR won't be intimidated." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Princess of Tap Posted January 26, 2020 Share Posted January 26, 2020 13 hours ago, jakeem said: Mary Louise Kelly @NPRKelly Here is our full interview with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. It's worth a listen. Pompeo Won't Say Whether He Owes Yovanovitch An Apology. 'I've Done What's Right' As the State Department faces ongoing questions over Marie Yovanovitch's treatment as U.S. envoy to Ukraine, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo tells NPR, "I've defended every single person on this team." npr.org 6:33 PM · Jan 24, 2020·Twitter Web Client On 1/24/2020 at 4:31 PM, jakeem said: Ari Shapiro @arishapiro The coda to @NPRKelly's interview with @SecPompeo is shocking. As described on @npratc: He screamed, swore at her, and said she couldn't find Ukraine on a map. He ordered staffers to bring a blank map. She pointed to Ukraine and thanked him for his time. Transcript: NPR's Full Interview With Secretary Of State Mike Pompeo Secretary of State Mike Pompeo talks to NPR's Mary Louise Kelly about U.S. policy in Iran and about Marie Yovanovitch, the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine. npr.org 5:23 PM · Jan 24, 2020·Twitter Web App On 1/24/2020 at 4:31 PM, jakeem said: Jennifer Rubin @JRubinBlogger Replying to @arishapiro @mikiebarb and 3 others awful bully, no wonder he and Trump get along 5:27 PM · Jan 24, 2020·Twitter Web App Pompeo's attack on the First Amendment is his desperate attempt to hide the truth, by attacking the messenger. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Princess of Tap Posted January 26, 2020 Share Posted January 26, 2020 34 minutes ago, jakeem said: Slate @Slate NPR’s Mary Louise Kelly said Pompeo “shouted at me for about the same amount of time as the interview itself had lasted.” Mike Pompeo Lashes Out at NPR Reporter Again after Demanding She Point to Ukraine on a Map His statement railing against the reporter came with an official State Department seal. slate.com 1:45 AM · Jan 26, 2020·SocialFlow Pompeo is out of control. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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