03.27.23
Reporting on the Mirror – VANITY FAIR
The press obsession with Ron DeSantis continues to deliver the laughs. The overwrought focus on the Florida governor leads to so much imbalanced thinking and emotional outbursts that you can only sit back and laugh. And point.
The latest comes from Vanity Fair, which sees the approach by the DeSantis communications team – which is to say they refuse to play by the rigged rules of the media – and declares this stance as a huge problem.
In a rundown of how the news outlets are positioning for a potential/probable DeSantis run for the presidency, Charlotte Klein notes that the known resistance of the governor’s communications team to follow the media guidelines is presenting challenges.
- "For one, it’s hard to source up inside an operation that appears inherently distrustful of journalists. 'It’s almost like they’re running a straight-up opposition campaign against the media,' a political reporter at a major news outlet said of DeSantis’s press strategy."
Without hesitation, DeSantis Press Secretary Bryan Griffin and Deputy Press Secretary Jeremy Redfern responded to the article. They were not exactly defensive or disputing the comments about their approach to the press.
Appears?
— Jeremy Redfern (@JeremyRedfernFL) March 24, 2023
I mean, they didn’t need to use such a speculative word.
DNC PR Firm – MSNBC
- We assume the country is on autopilot until the next election.
On her brand sparkling new program on MSNBC, former White House mouthpiece Jen Psaki still appears a bit uncomfortable on camera reading off her teleprompter, but more than an unsure delivery is the flaw in her thinking. Jen turns her attention to Ron DeSantis and his supposedly controversial position on the Russia-Ukraine war, and she is a bit too focused on the man. She posits that the DeSantis position is dangerous globally and will only encourage Vlad Putin to sit by and wait out things until DeSantis takes charge.
Now, not ignoring that this carries a supposition by Psaki that DeSantis will be elected president over her former boss, but there is a larger blindspot she is offering here. The election is 20 months away, and then factoring the lag to the inaugural, that leaves nearly two full years for President Jose Biden to actually take action in a meaningful way.
When you focus too much on one man, you let the obviousness slide right by.
— Lie-Able Sources (@LieAbleSources) March 27, 2023
By saying that the DeSantis stance will allow Putin to simply ride out the clock for a year and a half it completely ignores that someone else is actually running the country during that time, Jen. pic.twitter.com/XPI8j0g87S
Presentation Paradox – CNN
When it comes to Florida schools, the press already knows about the storyline, so there is no need to get too concerned with the actual facts. The state is an oppressive totalitarian mental prison – everyone knows this! Therefore, when the story emerges that a principal was fired for daring to allow teaching that included centuries-old nude Roman statues, the story-quashing details are easily dispatched in place of running the lurid headline.
"We are going to make sure that parents specifically know what we are going to show their kids, what we are going to talk to their kids about and any keywords that might be a triggering event," school board Chair Barney Bishop III said https://t.co/hs6kjmEY8l
— CNN (@CNN) March 26, 2023
Now for the specifics. The principal had a history of problems within the school, being told in the past that she was on the verge of being dismissed, and this latest was a last-straw episode for the board. The school was not punishing her for the art lesson, nor was it pulling the content. It was simply a fact that the principal had not done her job and notified parents prior. Despite the alarming headline, CNN included this quote:
- "She was not let go because of the Michaelangelo’s David lesson."
Gilded Reframe – NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO
In their report about the announcement that trans athletes would not be permitted to compete in international track and field events, NPR delivered a rather fractured biology lesson, suggesting that there is no concrete proof that trans athletes competing in women’s sports have an advantage. You know, besides the benefits of musculature, testosterone, adrenaline, hormones, hemoglobin levels, etc. – there is nothing to indicate an advantage!
According to NPR there is limited scientific evidence that @PlanetTyrus has an advantage in sports over @DanaPerino. https://t.co/PlyJwpGuYs pic.twitter.com/vvUteNI7TT
— RoadMN 📈 (@RoadMN) March 27, 2023
Well, after being shamed mercilessly over the insipidness and the ignoring of basic science and biology, NPR attempted to issue a correction. They did not do much to make themselves appear any more salient on this topic.
It's always a joy when the press corps that demands we "follow the science" struggles mightily when the science defies the narratives. pic.twitter.com/P42j1Q1kj2
— Brad Slager: Buying Acceptance Speeches on eBay (@MartiniShark) March 27, 2023
Pre-Written Field Reports – CNN
Oliver Darcy was clearly excited. Darcy heard that Ray Epps, the controversial figure at the January 6 riot, who has managed to avoid any type of prosecution despite being seen provoking people to go storm the building that fateful day, has come forward with the announcement that he wants Tucker Carlson to issue a retraction for the accusations he has allegedly leveled at Epps.
Darcy is energized because this almost makes his favorite target – Fox News – in trouble, as well as opening the door to bring up the Dominion defamation case once again. What he does not bring up are the facts.
As Oliver details all the information given by the lawyer, he does not address the long-established facts that Epps engaged in more provocative activity that day than the people arrested for entering the building and taking pictures. Darcy also avoids the new videos Tucker released showing Epps on-site well after the time he testified that he had left the grounds, therefore, showing he lied in his testimony to Congress.
An attorney for Ray Epps has sent a letter to Fox News and Tucker Carlson demanding an on-air retraction for "lies" promoted about his client. The letter says Carlson has committed an "assault on the truth" by pushing "nonsensical fantasies" about Epps. https://t.co/2IhO4peYSz
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) March 23, 2023
News Avoidance Syndrome – THE WEATHER CHANNEL
- Well, at least they ran a crawl at the bottom of the screen.
It seems the once stalwart Weather Channel has shifted its focus in much the same way The History Channel shows programs of an unhistorical nature, such as "Ice Road Truckers." When a series of deadly tornados ravaged the Mississippi region, TWC saw fit to cut away from coverage in order to show repeats of its dramatic series "Strangest Weather."
This will be a great marketing hook for the newly formed Fox Weather network.
The Weather Channel has ended its severe storm coverage, now showing "Strangest Weather" re-runs.
— Matthew Keys (@MatthewKeysLive) March 25, 2023
Meanwhile, @FoxWeather is over here carrying on as more tornadoes pop up in Mississippi and Tennessee... https://t.co/9kVS4hD9SW
Race to the Bottom – CNN
Remarkably editors allowed this to get to press. The company saw fit to have their corporate logo visible above this content. It is just a marvel.
In a piece under the “Analysis” heading, deep thinker John Blake offers up the charge that if you are a white person and post gifs on your social media using images of black people, you are engaged in a form of a hate crime.
There really is only one response to such…
https://t.co/LmDKKxHwdx pic.twitter.com/HiC1ZFlCcT
— Lie-Able Sources (@LieAbleSources) March 27, 2023
