Author Topic: Media, Ministry of Truth Issues; foreign manipulation of US media/social media (Read 1149954 times)

Body-by-Guinness · « **Reply #3950 on:** October 18, 2023, 07:55:27 AM »

This could likely be filed several places, but for my money the big takeaway here is that a Biden donor working for Booz Allen, a major government contractor just awarded a a $2 billion contract to upgrade IRS systems and also major Biden and Democratic party donor is the employer of said contractor that most media sources media sources won't/don't identify. The leaking contractor appears to be heading toward some sort of legal wrist slap for the felonies he committed, and that may have had a hand in Trump's 2020 electoral loss.

https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2023/10/18/leaker_of_trump_taxes_worked_for_biden_beltway_donor_that_just_won_a_big_new_irs_contract_986770.html?fbclid=IwAR288OllKO_wRcvH9IIbOQEXMtFgpDEoSHfYd9PPQ3GVRb6q90ab4guasEE

ccp · « **Reply #3951 on:** October 18, 2023, 08:06:06 AM »

they now tally up death and wounded tolls like they are watching a basketball game

I would like them to start keeping tally of Muslims attacks around the world against Jews

versus the other way around.

I assume this was a Muslim attacking a synagogue ( notice names not printed ) :

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2023/10/18/jewish-synagogue-in-berlin-firebombed-with-molotov-cocktails/

ccp · « **Reply #3952 on:** October 19, 2023, 08:51:09 AM »

https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/18/media/gaza-hospital-bombing-dueling-claims/index.html

funny they have NO PROBLEM going after Republicans or Trump based on some "anonymous" source (s)

yet now they do not believe non anonymous sources and want to be extra careful.

Remember their promotion of Avenatti?

Remember their breathless promotion of the Russian collusion hoax?

Body-by-Guinness · « **Reply #3953 on:** October 19, 2023, 11:34:20 AM »

We don’t need no pesky 1st amendment:

https://x.com/OwenGregorian/status/1714981674105127196?s=20

Body-by-Guinness · « **Reply #3954 on:** October 19, 2023, 02:57:50 PM »

Horrible job done:

https://nypost.com/2023/10/19/brian-stelter-rips-medias-atrocious-series-of-mistakes-covering-gaza-hospital-blast/

Body-by-Guinness · « **Reply #3955 on:** October 22, 2023, 05:43:48 AM »

I follow Clarice Feldman on FB, and post a lot of the pieces she finds here. Every Sunday she publishes an opinion essay she calls “Clarice’s Pieces.” This week’s charts how the MSM has lost control of the Hamas narrative:

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/10/open_sources_demolish_the_legacy_media_.html?fbclid=IwAR0OjUKOJAXnhtttjiccqSWLe_bb9MRsPg3m0ycn4telEvf7n-KEkMRuxEc

Body-by-Guinness · « **Reply #3956 on:** October 23, 2023, 04:10:42 PM »

Great piece detailing all the reflexive asshattery associated with the “Israel Bombs Hospital” “story,” that does a fine job of taking the MSM apart along the way:

https://thefederalist.com/2023/10/18/the-gaza-hospital-fiasco-offers-a-vivid-example-of-journalisms-rot/?fbclid=IwAR3WVc2Nqg1ghweAy13CV4_rU9Cqs_P3ACbRp3H7GjueXadGeZA1rWj-PAU

Body-by-Guinness · « **Reply #3957 on:** October 30, 2023, 09:31:13 PM »

Well here’s a surprise: media fails to report Biden can’t competently call on media to ask him questions without a media picture placard. Dan Quail was excoriated for reading verbatim a misspelled card reading “potatoe,” press can’t emit a peep when President can’t handle a press conference without a cheat sheet showing reporter’s photo and order they are to be called on. And I’d make book that he’s also been coached on what those reporters will ask during these “spontaneous” press conferences.

https://pjmedia.com/miltharris/2023/10/28/bidens-cheat-sheets-attain-comic-book-status-but-its-not-funny-n1738878

Body-by-Guinness · « **Reply #3958 on:** October 30, 2023, 10:17:06 PM »

2np post.

A fine barometer indeed. FWIW, in the ed biz an EdD is right up there with doctor of homeopathic medicine:

John LeFevre
@JohnLeFevre
A simple way of framing the bias and pettiness of the NYT:
In the same article, they write “Ben Carson” and “Dr. Jill Biden.”
He grew up in poverty during the Civil Rights movement, graduated from Yale, and became a renowned brain surgeon.
She was Hunter’s babysitter and Joe’s mistress, got her EdD as a Senator’s wife, and briefly taught community college English.

Crafty_Dog · « **Reply #3959 on:** October 31, 2023, 05:47:04 AM »

"A simple way of framing the bias and pettiness of the NYT:
In the same article, they write “Ben Carson” and “Dr. Jill Biden.”
He grew up in poverty during the Civil Rights movement, graduated from Yale, and became a renowned brain surgeon.
She was Hunter’s babysitter and Joe’s mistress, got her EdD as a Senator’s wife, and briefly taught community college English."

How very telling.

ccp · « **Reply #3960 on:** October 31, 2023, 08:06:23 AM »

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/20407101-jill-jacobsbiden_dissertation

https://news.yahoo.com/jill-biden-garbage-dissertation-explained-155913150.html

Body-by-Guinness · « **Reply #3961 on:** October 31, 2023, 07:46:29 PM »

Quote from: ccp on October 31, 2023, 08:06:23 AM

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/20407101-jill-jacobsbiden_dissertation

https://news.yahoo.com/jill-biden-garbage-dissertation-explained-155913150.html

My goodness, what unmitigated twaddle. Reads like the papers that would show up at the community college writing center I was a tutor for BEFORE a serious edit. And I know it’s a quirk, but I think that people that double space after periods when using a proportional font are candidates for protective restraint.

Crafty_Dog · « **Reply #3962 on:** October 31, 2023, 07:49:03 PM »

1Hey! I don't know what proportional font is but I do double space!

Body-by-Guinness · « **Reply #3963 on:** October 31, 2023, 07:49:10 PM »

It’s worth noting Weiss considered herself a liberal until witnessing nonsense like this while writing for the NYT:

https://nypost.com/2023/10/31/media/bari-weiss-slams-ny-times-for-quoting-sultan-alamer/?utm_source=facebook_sitebuttons&utm_medium=site%20buttons&utm_campaign=site%20buttons&fbclid=IwAR23kwi0YTlLngqcZjHcReBOkk-Mjm6KJESGVPzUn1S0h9zOg-gercXQOZY

Body-by-Guinness · « **Reply #3964 on:** October 31, 2023, 08:09:31 PM »

Quote from: Crafty_Dog on October 31, 2023, 07:49:03 PM

1Hey! I don't know what proportional font is but I do double space!

A proportional font is one where smaller letters take up less room in a typed line than a large one as an “i” requires less space than an “m.” Back in the bad-old-typewritten days, non-proportional fonts like Courier where every letter was given the same amount of line real estate were the norm, necessitating a double space after a period so the reader had a visual cue that one thought had ended and a new one begun.

Once proportional fonts came on the scene a single space proved to be enough of a visual cue after a period for readers, so much so that a double space became superfluous. Don’t believe me? Go find a publication that lists an editor using double spaces after periods. To old editing salts like me double spaces after periods look like a written version of proudly parading about w/ one’s fly down: something too obvious to not see, though the owner of the undies on full display manages to somehow miss it anyway.

Crafty_Dog · « **Reply #3965 on:** November 01, 2023, 05:09:17 AM »

OTOH the elderly eyes of old curmudgeons like me appreciate the clarity of the visual clue of double space

DougMacG · « **Reply #3966 on:** November 03, 2023, 11:59:27 AM »

https://www.racket.news/p/dao-prize-acceptance-speech

DougMacG · « **Reply #3967 on:** November 05, 2023, 08:17:38 AM »

https://amac.us/newsline/elections/six-questions-gop-candidates-should-ask-nbc-moderators-at-this-weeks-debate/

Crafty_Dog · « **Reply #3968 on:** November 05, 2023, 11:33:17 AM »

That is fg awesome!

THAT is a winning mind!!!

Crafty_Dog · « **Reply #3969 on:** November 05, 2023, 11:33:50 AM »

second

Unethical Gaza Reporting Cuts Crucial Context
by Noah Beck
Special to IPT News
November 5, 2023

https://www.investigativeproject.org/9348/unethical-gaza-reporting-cuts-crucial-context

Crafty_Dog · « **Reply #3970 on:** November 08, 2023, 01:34:11 PM »

https://ace.mu.nu/archives/406961.php

Crafty_Dog · « **Reply #3971 on:** November 10, 2023, 03:02:33 PM »

https://www.reviewjournal.com/opinion/michael-ramirez/cartoon-what-hamas-is-really-doing-2934584/

ccp · « **Reply #3972 on:** November 10, 2023, 03:20:54 PM »

honest *satire*

so no reason to apologize for this image

Crafty_Dog · « **Reply #3973 on:** November 10, 2023, 03:38:39 PM »

Living its credo of "Democracy dies in the darkness".

A peak moment of irony.

Body-by-Guinness · « **Reply #3974 on:** November 10, 2023, 06:52:47 PM »

Check out this Hamas footage. How many of the combatants are in uniform while fighting the IDF? None. When they'll meet their maker, how do you think the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry will describe them? You're right: "civilians". Another reason to question everything they say.

https://x.com/jconricus/status/1723121143794618641?s=61&t=L5uifCqWy8R8rhj_J8HNJw

DougMacG · « **Reply #3975 on:** November 12, 2023, 07:34:15 PM »

https://pjmedia.com/victoria-taft/2023/11/12/us-news-outlets-must-answer-if-they-knew-about-hamas-terror-attacks-on-israel-before-october-7-n4923834

Media without conscience.

DougMacG · « **Reply #3976 on:** November 13, 2023, 08:35:53 AM »

Latest article of Scott Johnson at Powerline and links to past articles detailing Peggy Noonan's rapid decline, yet she still holds valuable real estate on the WSJ editorial page.

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/11/the-worst-of-peggy-noonan.php

(Doug). Let's see, she endorsed Obama, Biden and Harris but is still a great conservative thinker. Without using profanity I would just say, not possible.

Here own judgments don't pass her own smell tests.

I used to highly admire her.

ccp · « **Reply #3977 on:** November 13, 2023, 09:32:16 AM »

Noonan falls into the waste basket of other supposed prominent ex "Conservatives":

Scarborough
George Will
Nicolle Wallace
Michael Steele
Margaret Hoover

to name a few off the top of my head

Yes, I get hating Trump as I do, but that does not mean the response should be to act, speak and become a Democrat!!!

The enemies are still the Democrats!

Crafty_Dog · « **Reply #3978 on:** November 13, 2023, 01:57:14 PM »

I appreciate that article on Noonan. A lot of specifics there of which I was unaware.

Body-by-Guinness · « **Reply #3979 on:** November 15, 2023, 08:52:22 PM »

Pretty amusing: lotta tweets about the DNC being evacuated due to about 200 no doubt “mostly peaceful” pro-Hamas protesters at the DNC’s DC office facility as Capital Police in riot gear arrive on scene. Nothing about it in the WaPo, NYT, WSJ among other media sources save Reuters:

https://apple.news/ApVdlSFXOSD6X5jOkDXHSbQ

Were it 200 people wearing red MAGA hats (with at least %25 of them being FBI plants, no doubt) the apocalyptic reporting would be insufferably difficult to avoid.

Body-by-Guinness · « **Reply #3980 on:** November 16, 2023, 12:11:05 PM »

DNC Jewish front group hires itself to create a poll claiming ¾ of all US Jews support Biden:

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fact-check-media-pushes-a-fake-democrat-poll-claiming-total-jewish-support-for-biden/?fbclid=IwAR0thrX_TVxy46uIyFbGbdjbtT7mV8yZfwu6DFRyzkcqYLfleFrWGTASXag

Body-by-Guinness · « **Reply #3981 on:** November 16, 2023, 05:31:48 PM »

Those that don’t lose a moment’s sleep over Hamas atrocities get the vapors over a cartoon.

https://www.newsweek.com/i-was-canceled-cartoon-about-hamas-human-shields-i-stand-my-cartoon-its-critics-opinion-1843949?fbclid=IwAR1P2XOslp4jjUlL6Lhhrk687L-yR-07SYQTWjPxL0D_-THEarPBAw1BmI4

DougMacG · « **Reply #3982 on:** November 17, 2023, 07:02:18 AM »

300,000 marched on Washington in Support of Israel.

Washington Post buried it in the Metro section.

https://www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2023/11/Screenshot-2023-11-16-at-10.27.01%E2%80%AFAM.png

'Journalism, cover the stories of the day, with a pillow, until they stop breathing.'

DougMacG · « **Reply #3983 on:** November 17, 2023, 07:13:49 AM »

Notable quote:

"You can’t fight a firehose of falsehood with a squirt gun of truth."

https://www.rand.org/pubs/perspectives/PE198.html

ccp · « **Reply #3984 on:** November 17, 2023, 07:20:22 AM »

Just sent email to someone who helped organize bus trip to DC for march and inquired as to what estimate number of attendees she would attest to.
I am unclear if the estimate of close to 300 K is about right or not
since the MSM ignored the whole thing

Levin states that both the WP and NYT reported on it on ~ pps 20 and 21.

I think he said one of them had one crappy picture that only should the heads of several marchers rather then view of the 100s of thousands
and reported that the number of attendees was in the "thousands"

I almost went. Bough ticket had reservation but then after finding out the physical requirements and the entire schedule from 5 AM to 10 PM from door to door I did not think I could physically do it. Donated my ticket and another donation to the cause.

If 5 white supremacists showed up at a rally
the MSM would be all over it screaming how white right wing supremacy is on the rise and the biggest threat to democracy.

Crafty_Dog · « **Reply #3985 on:** November 17, 2023, 07:45:56 AM »

I am rather consistently hearing the number 290,000 on FOX and other friendly sources. The footage and pics I have seen fully support that.

One of my top students and his wife (the Uke descended Russian Jew now American whom I have referenced here various times) went as did another student of mine.

Body-by-Guinness · « **Reply #3986 on:** November 17, 2023, 08:12:34 PM »

Pay no attention to what created the corpse behind the curtain:

https://www.samizdata.net/2023/11/lest-we-remember/

ETA another example:

https://www.samizdata.net/2023/11/peace-lovers-love-using-the-passive-voice/

Crafty_Dog · « **Reply #3987 on:** November 20, 2023, 08:06:06 PM »

https://gellerreport.com/2023/10/musk-pulls-nyt-verification-badge.html/

ccp · « **Reply #3988 on:** November 20, 2023, 08:49:41 PM »

" I am rather consistently hearing the number 290,000 on FOX and other friendly sources. The footage and pics I have seen fully support that.

One of my top students and his wife (the Uke descended Russian Jew now American whom I have referenced here various times) went as did another student of mine."

Thank you for that info.

Which makes all the more disgusting how the MSM ignored it!

But if 10 to 20 white supremacists show up somewhere such as in Wisconsin we read headlines:

"White supremacists marching in Madison!!!!!"

Crafty_Dog · « **Reply #3989 on:** November 21, 2023, 05:45:11 AM »

Crafty_Dog · « **Reply #3990 on:** November 26, 2023, 09:49:38 AM »

https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/11/something-is-seriously-wrong-at-the-washington-post/?bypass_key=Y3YrV3M3alVZdlZsUUoxVk5yb0poQT09OjpabHBIYTJ0cGFXNDNiM1p3V2t4WFpWVXdUVlZXZHowOQ%3D%3D

ccp · « **Reply #3991 on:** November 26, 2023, 10:01:54 AM »

So is PBS.
and anywhere Amanpour et al prowl including when on CNN

ccp · « **Reply #3992 on:** December 03, 2023, 12:07:06 PM »

I hate MSNBC too, but this is not a good idea:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/msnbc-s-jen-psaki-fires-back-at-trump-over-his-crazy-threat-aimed-at-her-network/ar-AA1kVZGZ?ocid=msedgntp&pc=DCTS&cvid=969b821e7c3a4de7acbcc4929ffb1c6b&ei=16

DougMacG · « **Reply #3993 on:** December 03, 2023, 01:10:59 PM »

Quote from: ccp on December 03, 2023, 12:07:06 PM

I hate MSNBC too, but this is not a good idea:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/msnbc-s-jen-psaki-fires-back-at-trump-over-his-crazy-threat-aimed-at-her-network/ar-AA1kVZGZ?ocid=msedgntp&pc=DCTS&cvid=969b821e7c3a4de7acbcc4929ffb1c6b&ei=16

Sounds like he is trying to give legs to the claim of fascism.

Crafty_Dog · « **Reply #3994 on:** December 03, 2023, 08:07:59 PM »

NOT good!

Body-by-Guinness · « **Reply #3995 on:** December 05, 2023, 01:43:46 PM »

… let’s hire people with the ethos of Dark Age clerics to report the news!

https://donsurber.substack.com/p/states-warn-ap-about-helping-hamas?r=1qo1e&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&fbclid=IwAR2lD6hGAwDC2Fob_7ct8t-gSE7jZMExKvDBz_loXD7UU8MD7dMKQWo3c3I

ccp · « **Reply #3996 on:** December 12, 2023, 08:04:40 AM »

with a lead article like this:

"Another White Man May Replace George Santos In Congress"

this is all we need to know about what political spectrum this rag is on.

Looking it up it was founded by Henry Louis Gates of Obama fame after he was breaking into his own house and got arrested for it

and for hosting the genealogy show (which I like to watch)

AND by Donald Edward Graham of Washington Post fame.

https://www.theroot.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Root_(magazine)

Here is another :

Black women who wear bad wigs more likely to snag rich white man:

https://www.theroot.com/why-slim-black-woman-with-a-bad-wig-is-trending-on-tikt-1851090715

They can or will not see anything that is not through a racial lens.

DougMacG · « **Reply #3997 on:** December 14, 2023, 07:56:18 AM »

NYT: “Let me state as clearly as I can: My father was not involved in my business.”

Hunter: “Let me state as clearly as I can: My father was not *financially* involved in my business.”

https://revolver.news/2023/12/new-york-times-doctored-what-hunter-biden-said-leaving-out-one-very-important-key-word/

Paraphrasing Ronald reagan, it's not that (the Left) is ignorant, it's that so much of what they know isn't so.

Of course Joe was involved in the business, and the business was shaking down people for money. Who got Hunter onto taxpayer flights? Who came to the dinners? Who posed for the pictures? Who got their policies implemented? Who watched the money roll in, millions of dollars? Who benefited from that? Are they trying to say he's stupid? Didn't know what was going on? Better not answer that.

ccp · « **Reply #3998 on:** December 14, 2023, 08:11:02 AM »

" Of course he was involved in the business, and the business was shaking down people for money. Who got Hunter onto taxpayer flights? Who came to the dinners? Who posed for the pictures? Who got their policies implemented? Who watched the money roll in, millions of dollars? Who benefited from that? Are they trying to say he's stupid? Didn't know what was going on? Better not answer that."

Prof John Turley says what we all know:

the DNC media response

"but there is zero/no proof Joe did anything wrong" is simply mind boggling.

He has never seen such lying across the DNC / media board.

VDH - nihilism on steroids in a fashion never before seen in the US

Crafty_Dog · « **Reply #3999 on:** December 14, 2023, 12:37:27 PM »

POTH gets more shameless and arrogant every day.

News:

Author Topic: Media, Ministry of Truth Issues; foreign manipulation of US media/social media (Read 1149954 times)