12.28.23
Legalized Press-titution – NBC NEWS
What to do when you see people protesting illegally on behalf of a cause that you, as an unbiased non-partisan news outlet, support completely???
Reframe the truth!
As those recidivist sociopathic Just Stop Oil protestors were rounded up in Britain for blocking roadways and endangering society, NBC News decided the approach would be that these people were arrested for just walking around, with a nod that in the U.K. they have laws that are too restrictive against protesting or something.
Alternative:
— Brad Slager: Flips On The Highbeams In Fog Of War (@MartiniShark) December 28, 2023
"Motorist is cited despite following the speed limit while driving his car on a populated sidewalk."
This is how asinine you sound @NBCNews in your sym-PATHETIC approach to law-breaking protestors. https://t.co/RiSziEbwFR
Reporting on the Mirror – VARIOUS OUTLETS
The University of Syracuse conducted a study on the journalism industry and came to some results that are rather unsettling while, at the same time, not surprising in the least. In its regular survey of media folks, they found that the number of journalists who declare themselves to be Republican is at a near-microscopic level of just 3-percent.
Meanwhile, among the general public – the gentry the media supposedly service with keeping the government in check – the voting breakdown is a near-perfect split of 45% for each party. Little mystery how conservatives are so routinely demonized in the press these days.
New Poll of Journalists Shows Amount of Republicans in the Industry Becomes Microscopichttps://t.co/3JpF4RCDLb
— RedState (@RedState) December 28, 2023
1st Amendment Strike Force – ESPN
“Knock it off Sage, or people will accuse us of committing journalism!”
Speaking with Riley Gaines on her podcast, former ESPN personality Sage Steele detailed how, during her time on the network, she was instructed to stop tweeting out comments about infamous trans college swimmer Lia Thomas, whom Gaines had competed against.
I was asked to stop tweeting about it. I was asked to stop doing anything, saying anything about it on social media because I was offending others at the company. I made sure I sent up another tweet that night after I received that email.
Sage Steele: ESPN Told Me to Stop Speaking About Lia Thomas
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) December 28, 2023
https://t.co/KmhpGS9GQZ
Pulitzer Prize Nomination – THE DAILY BEAST
A late entrant for the Headline of the Year category...
They would not have even been caught and in trouble, except vegans cannot shut up about their chosen diet.
College Chancellor Canned for Secret Life as Vegan Porn Starhttps://t.co/GV9Eyzx2rV
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) December 28, 2023
Low Octane Gas Lighting – THE WASHINGTON POST
Proof so obvious the prosecutors missed it...?!
WaPo columnist Greg Sargent is so convinced that Donald Trump is dead to rights when it comes to his insurrection guilt that he delivered a thread detailing how irrefutable the evidence is in his case.
Read this thread. I would like to pose some hypothetical questions to insurrection-deniers: Is there anything Trump could have done that *would* have unambiguously constituted insurrection — anything that you’d acknowledge *does* require disqualifying him? 1/ https://t.co/9MA9IPQqmf
— Greg Sargent (@GregTSargent) December 27, 2023
Note Greg’s employment here of “Insurrection Deniers,” a term used by those on the left to establish a proven status on a matter that is, in truth, still debatable. Small matter for Greg’s ironclad conviction attempt when it comes to this supposedly overwhelming evidence: Not only have none of the people who were behind the “insurrection” at the Capitol on January 6 been charged with insurrection, of the 91 charges Trump is facing in his four indictments, none of those involve this crime as well.
But Sargent is convinced Trump will be convicted for the crime he is not accused of committing…somehow.
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