11.21.23
Anti-Social Media – NBC NEWS
- The picture of Ben tapping his foot and checking his watch outside of a courthouse is just too precious.
Some of the big news from the weekend involved Media Matters supposedly "proving" that on Xitter, they fail to properly control anti-Semitism, and provided evidence of major advertisers having their promotions posted alongside hate-speech posts. Xitter executives fired back, saying they have data showing that MMFA was looking for these hate posts and then reloading them thousands of times over until they came up with ads that slipped through a filter.
On Saturday, Elon Musk pledged that in response, he was going to file a "thermonuclear" lawsuit against the militant media outlet. He said he was going to do so the second the courthouse opened on Monday morning. Ben Collins, NBC News' dystopian beat reporter (don't look at us, that is his self-described title), felt that he had pegged Musk dead to rights by attempting to hold the billionaire to his literal words on something most proper thinking people would have read as a comment made for dramatic effect.
Clear some shelf space for that Pulitzer, Ben – you broke the news that Musk's lawsuit was not filed in a timely fashion, as he promised! (For the record, Musk's suit was filed on Monday.)
You're not gonna believe this, but a "thermonuclear lawsuit against Media Matters" was not filed "the split second court opens on Monday." https://t.co/SxgvSmv7oG
— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) November 20, 2023
Stealth Story Evolution – WASHINGTON POST
- Apparently, with sources running all over D.C., they could not manage to find any.
We are quite literally at the point where we should just assume any report out of Gaza is completely incorrect and wait a few days for the revisions to take place. The latest fumble comes from the Washington Post, where, on Saturday, they reported how a cease-fire agreement had been brokered, with the promise of hostages being returned.
However, it did not take long for administration officials to begin to come forward to declare that the talks were still ongoing and no deal had been finalized.
After some stealth edits to the article, it was nearly a full day before the paper issued a proper correction – and it was a fiasco:
A previous version of this article, headline and accompanying news alert incorrectly characterized The Post’s reporting about the status of negotiations among Israel, Hamas and the United States to pause conflict for five days and free women and children held hostage in Gaza. The article stated that the parties had agreed to a tentative deal. In fact, Israel and Hamas were close to a U.S.-brokered agreement. The article has been corrected.
So let us do a round-up of the issues: The headline was incorrect, the news alerts were wrong, and somehow, the version of the report itself did not properly characterize the reporting…some…how.
Based on all of this, we can cast doubt that even the typeface used for the article was not the correct font.
Washington Post Continues to Get It Wrong on the Israel-Hamas Conflict - Quiet Revisions Ensuehttps://t.co/pHIDifG4yE
— RedState (@RedState) November 21, 2023
Reporting on the Mirror – NBC NEWS
- It is beginning to make sense why so much of the war coverage is slanted to one side.
They are beginning to give freelancers a bad name!
NBC News has had to sever its relationship with another Hamas-sympathizing journalist. In Israel, the authorities have arrested a woman who had been working as a producer for the network due to it being discovered that while working in that country, she had been posting and sharing content on social media glorifying the violence against the Jewish people. She was charged with "inciting and glorying the horrible acts committed against civilians," according to the records from the court in Jerusalem.
NBC News cuts ties with journalist arrested for inciting terror and identifying with terrorist group after Hamas attacks. More at https://t.co/wYpdELvFKM
— Israel Headline News (@IsraelHeadline) November 21, 2023
Pulitzer Prize Nomination – BILLBOARD MAGAZINE
You might recall the comedy in January 2022 when dinosaur rocker Neil Young pledged to leave Spotify and have his songs removed from the platform over Joe Rogan making comments of which he disapproved. The shrugs of apathy were later met with laughter when Neil learned that he had no control over the rights to much of his catalog and could not remove those. Basically, it was a case of a codger telling kids who do not listen to him that they would not be able to continue avoiding his music and would be prevented from doing what they did not do – or something like that.
Well, Neil's latest cloud-yelling stunt is to declare that he is leaving Xitter. Since he failed to take down a multi-millionaire podcaster, apparently, the thought is Neil will successfully cancel a billionaire with numerous successful industry-leading companies.
Neil Young Is Done With X & Elon Musk: ‘We Are Taking Action Against His Company’ https://t.co/ExYGt2EnpG
— billboard (@billboard) November 20, 2023
Pounce of Prevention – CNN
In a variety of blue cities, the shoplifting epidemic has become serious to such an extent that drastic options are playing out in stores. Items are locked in cases, or sections of the store might be gated off, in some areas – such as Washington, D.C. – they do not even have the products on shelves, instead opting for only placing pictures of what is for sale on display and then the employees need to go and retrieve the desired items.
Looking into this matter was CNN's consumer reporter Nathaniel Meyersohn, and what he saw was not rampant crime nor permissive district attorneys afraid of arresting criminals. No, instead, he finds that this problem is generated by conservatives who…well, notice the problem taking place:
Shoplifting has also become a politically charged crime that many on the right and some Democrats have exploited to oppose criminal justice policy reforms. Many political leaders, retailers and law enforcement officials now want to mobilize a stronger response to crack down on theft and other crime.
“The figure of a shoplifter may provide for a scapegoat for deeper problems that are more complex and intractable,” James Walsh, who directs the University of Ontario Institute of Technology’s graduate program on criminology and justice, told CNN.
So, somehow noticing there is a spike in shoplifting is what is leading to the spike in shoplifting, not law enforcement turning a blind eye to the thefts taking place. Sheer genius reporting.
“The concern over shoplifting taps into a larger narrative about how urban areas are out of control.”
— Nathaniel Meyersohn (@nmeyersohn) November 18, 2023
What America’s shoplifting panic reveals https://t.co/irsvT5d1A8
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