Attkisson pointed out that "fake news" in the form of tabloid journalism and false media narratives has always been around under different names.
But she noticed in 2016, there seemed to be a concerted effort by the MSM to focus America's attention on the idea of "fake news" in conservative media. That looked like a propaganda effort to Attkisson, so she did a little digging and traced the new spin to a little non-profit called "First Draft," which, she said, "appears to be the about the first to use 'fake news' in its modern context."
"On September 13, 2016, First Draft announced a partnership to tackle malicious hoaxes and fake news reports," Attkisson explained. "The goal was supposedly to separate wheat from chaff, to prevent unproven conspiracy talk from figuring prominently in internet searches. To relegate today's version of the alien baby stories to a special internet oblivion."
She noted that a month later, then-President Obama chimed in.
[...]
[S]uddenly the subject of fake news was dominating headlines all over America as if the media had received "its marching orders,
Of course they had their marching orders. See also: "Russian interference in our election"
Half the country wants to know why the press won't cover the growing scandal now implicating the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Department of Justice, and threatening to reach the State Department, Central Intelligence Agency, and perhaps even the Obama White House.
Why, indeed.
Read that second article that Kate links, from the Federalist!
To ask the question why they aren't covering the scandal (and it's bigger than Watergate) is to answer it. The left's march through the institutions is all but complete.
If you haven't already, you all should get Sharyl's book 'The Smear' It's a great read, very informative about how the media conspires to push the narrative.
It would be nice to see something serious. Maybe, potus Trump could assign all network expenditures to Democrat party campaign spending.
Would like to see that is Saskatchewan. SGEU has a 100% track record of putting out ads supporting the NDP (their political wing) and trashing everyone else. Why aren't union dues paid to the SGEU, counted as political donations. Why isn't add money spent by the SGEU, counted as political donations. Why has no one in the country ever pointed the campaign finance people down the throats of unions. Why has no one ever been arrested over the obvious conflict of interest of the NDP party giving raises to the NDP affiliated unions whenever they get elected. The NDP unions giving money to get the NDP elected so they get more raises.
Right to work legislation needs to come to Canada. And union members need to be declared an invasive foreign species and an eradication pogrom started.
FYI, everything was explained in the Federalist Papers, circa 1787.
ENSLAVED PRESS: check.
STANDING ARMY: check.
DISARMED CITIZENRY: still working on that (in the US, in Canada -- CHECK).
"Oppressors can tyrannize only when they achieve a standing army, an enslaved press, and a disarmed populace."
— James Madison
FYI, Hitler did not need to disarm Germans, because that was already done by people before him. Germany had the strictest gun control on the planet before Hitler came to power. Look how that worked out for the world. And remember it every time a Democrat, or the RCMP, or Alan Rock, or Kim Campbell comes for your guns.
"Indeed, there was no need for the Nazis to pass a law like that, because the earlier Weimar government had already passed gun registration laws. When I asked Cramer about his research, he said, “The laws adopted by the Weimar Republic intended to disarm Nazis and Communists were sufficiently discretionary that the Nazis managed to use them against their enemies once they were in power.” In other words, they didn’t need to pass additional laws. The Nazis did pass a weapons law in 1938, but that only added restrictions to the previous law, especially for Jews and other “non-citizens.”"
https://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1791/did-hitler-ban-gun-ownership/
I should look into this 'Firing Back' book...
Likewise the vast majority of CBC spending should by allocated to Liberal Party election expenses. That should keep them from spending another nickel until sometime in the next millennium.
Not to underplay the Fake-News media's staggering dishonesty and bias, but the anti-Trump coup scandal is also very complicated and I doubt most journalists (a stupid fluffy bunch) and most of their audience is capable of grasping the details nor do they have the knowledge or intellectual basis for understanding its implications.
As far as I'm concerned, all media news is ipso facto "fake news" to some degree or another. It represents a type of information tailored to meet any combination of the following aims:
1. attracting and holding a demographic viewer/reader/listener base for circulation/ratings purposes;
2. advancing the ideological viewpoint of the organization that produces it; and
3. catering to the preconceived notions of the target audience (see 1).
That is amusing, if the "Fake News: meme was started by the media wing of the progressives it was a spectacular own goal.
For every "deplorable" thought, mainstream media, every time the media shrieked "Fake News".
I thought they were bragging about their own product.
They have been losing customers for decades,the public was largely ignoring them already.
And Trump took it as a gift and rode it all the way to the White House.
Problem for the old media is Fake News is true.
Their bias spun out of control decades ago.
Never content to tell the whole story, they morphed into demanding we accept only their point of view.
Hectoring ,lecturing and attempting to shame and intimidate.
While insisting on their right to lie by omission.
We know they fear and hate us.
As they all fell into Trump derangement Syndrome, I cheered for them.
Nothing sells like insulting and antagonizing at least 50% of your potential market.
And after a full year ,these self annoited intellectual superiors, keep telling every citizen how much they hate and despise us.
Yet they are the "smart ones".
Uh-huh. It's all down to The Conspiracy, so vast yet so difficult to prove-and impossible to disprove. Conservative Persecution Complex
"The press has played an active role in the Trump-Russia collusion story since its inception. It helped birth it."
Actually the Trump campaign helped birth it with the various unseemly connections between Trump's people and Russia, as well as his creepy affection for Putin. It's not to say the tale of Russia somehow manipulating the US election isn't a load of crap, but the media didn't make Flynn commit a crime.
I looked up "unseemly" in the US criminal code. It said "UnMe is an idiot, so don't listen to that nonsense."
Same result for "creepy affections."
OTOH found lots of references for:
- lying to judges
- employing foreign agencies to create smear dossiers and trying to launder the payment through a 3rd party
- surveilling political opponents with fraudulent due process claims.
- influence peddling
- breach of trust; misusing public office
- lying to Congress (Mr Brennan you're busted)
- pay for play with Ukrainian and other unseemly interests, the actual law not leftist propaganda.
- gross negligence (and that is charitable to Hillary - she knew exactly what she was doing).
- fixing leadership campaigns and presidential elections.
- sedition
- and much, much more as an avalanche of wrongdoing becomes quite apparent quickly.
IOW you are full of crap. Your numbskull nuances don't do justice to alleged crimes with evidence.
You're still banging on about the Nunes memo that doesn't prove anything?
"Grassley’s letter confirms the accuracy of the counter almost immediately offered by intelligence committee Democrats: That the application did, in fact, disclose that the dossier’s funders were politically motivated.
More than that, it makes clear that not specifically naming the DNC was not some aberrant omission, but the result of the common intelligence practice of obfuscating the identities of people who aren’t under suspicion. Glenn Simpson of the research firm Fusion GPS, who directly hired Steele, is referenced only as an “identified U.S. person.” Even Steele himself does not appear to have been named: The ambiguous pronoun “his/her” is used to avoid specifying a gender for the dossier’s author. The judges who reviewed the application almost certainly would have recognized Page as an adviser to Trump and inferred that opposition research concerning him was likely funded by Democrats—and could easily have asked if they thought it was necessary to clarify."
https://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/grassley-letter-everyone-ignoring-way-more-important-nunes-memo
ooooohhhhh agreed agreed agreed.
take a look at the times back in the late 1800s for instance, in the absence of radio when ONLY a tiny set of individuals controled the 'message'.
and the 'message' gave rise to ginormous MYTHS that still exists regarding such nefarious types as dillinger, earp, wm bonnie, etc.
all kinds of 'folk heroes'
yupper.
unless it was YOU their latest victim which never got published.
E V E R Y time I have had personal knowledge or involvement in a printed press story the reporter ALWAYS WITHOUT FAIL got it wrong. every time.
Thick you are. Time will prove my case so spare me you obfuscation.
You, like your DeMarxist and statist cohorts, doth protest to much.
Why do you insist on believing others are as stupid as you?
Shocking, you missed my point, thick that you are.
Your usual omission is to "forget" there is a mountain of evidence on the way substantiating Nunes and Grassley.
Why do you continue to insist on assuming other people are as stupid as you? Your link, like you is a logical joke.
RTFA. Grassley's letter undercuts the Nunes memo and no, there is no 'mountain' of evidence supporting some criminal conspiracy. As of now it's just innuendo.
"Why do you insist on believing others are as stupid as you?"
Rhetorical question?
All it knows is its own experience, knowing no others it will assume all are just as it be.
Some days I suspect it is purely trolling, others it nails the part so well,it must be genuine.
Every bridge needs a troll, it is the age of feelings..they are magic.
a lie by any other name is still a lie.
"SGEU has a 100% track record of putting out ads supporting the NDP"
I don't know the cost of their fancy billboard ads but I know they ain't cheap. Union dues well spent.
I particularly enjoy the one about the Sask Party taking apart the health system by pulling away vital pieces. I assume they are referring to private MRI's and other such innovations to try to shorten waiting lists. It's ironic that the NDP, while in power, also pulled away vital pieces of the health system. These vital pieces were called hospitals.
Americans of the progressive persuasion will be shocked when the indictments issue
Americans of the progressive persuasion will be shocked when the indictments issue - Jeremiad alert!
https://www.maddogslair.com/blog/americans-of-the-progressive-persuasion-will-be-shocked-when-the-indictments-issue-jeremiad-alert
"The fake "Fake News";
Attkisson pointed out that "fake news" in the form of tabloid journalism and false media narratives has always been around under different names.
But she noticed in 2016, there seemed to be a concerted effort by the MSM to focus America's attention on the idea of "fake news" in conservative media. That looked like a propaganda effort to Attkisson, so she did a little digging and traced the new spin to a little non-profit called "First Draft," which, she said, "appears to be the about the first to use 'fake news' in its modern context."
"On September 13, 2016, First Draft announced a partnership to tackle malicious hoaxes and fake news reports," Attkisson explained. "The goal was supposedly to separate wheat from chaff, to prevent unproven conspiracy talk from figuring prominently in internet searches. To relegate today's version of the alien baby stories to a special internet oblivion."
She noted that a month later, then-President Obama chimed in.
[...]
[S]uddenly the subject of fake news was dominating headlines all over America as if the media had received "its marching orders,
Of course they had their marching orders. See also: "Russian interference in our election"
Half the country wants to know why the press won't cover the growing scandal now implicating the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Department of Justice, and threatening to reach the State Department, Central Intelligence Agency, and perhaps even the Obama White House.
Why, indeed."
They will have heard nothing about the investigation of the corruption of the FBI, DOJ, State, CIA, DNI, and likely other agencies. When dozens of indictments are handed down, dozens of card-carrying progressive Democrats are arrested and charged this will be the first they hear of it. The result is likely to be a shock similar to the election of President Lincoln, or the British marching to disarm Lexington and Concord.
I have no idea what will happen next, but if the results of the two examples above are apropos, the very fabric of the Union could be in jeopardy. Americans were founded out of a civil war; we later fought a national Civil War, it is not out of the question to contemplate that new civil conflict could erupt. The civic fabric is threadbare after decades of culture wars, atomization of society, and a turn from public duty.
Jefferson wrote the greatest aspirational, world-changing, document in human history, the Declaration of Independence. The Americans came together behind that document and fought to ensure it would fully realize its potential. Four score and seven years later (a score is 20 years, so 87 years later) Lincoln addressed the great experiment in a speech at Gettysburg.
"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
Abraham Lincoln
November 19, 1863
By the end of the war, Americans would have embarked on the final push to complete the unfinished business of the Declaration of Independence.
The American tradition was born with these words "...all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed ..." Declaration of Independence: A Transcription. The Declaration of Independence was the aspirational document which set out the American ideals, structured the American tradition and launched America. The Constitution was a document of compromise which tried to follow these ideals as best as possible realizing that for the Colonies to succeed, it was all or none. The success of the most magnificent experiment in human history required unity. And so, we were united, although some of the people did not meet the lofty ideals set out in the Declaration.
The Declaration was not a limit but a brief sounding of the American ideals. Since its creation, we have discovered other essential rights institutions which ensure the American ideals and Americans ability to pursue them. These include republican government, free markets, individual liberty, personal responsibility, the right to freely and securely own property, the rule of law, the government strictly limited by a constitution, free association, including religion, speech, assembly and other rights.
The most celebrated experiment in human history cannot be derailed because a small part of the American population detests American ideals and is willing to undermine the experiment. We need to stand ready to act should the fabric of the Union be placed in jeopardy through the selfish motives of this small but significant part of the American polity.
This still seems an incredible, unbelievable possibility, just as the Revolutionary war, and the Civil War, were incredible, unimaginable thoughts just a few years before they became realities. But they became realities, horrible, deadly and destructive realities which descended on America and which changed the face of America and, indeed, the world.
While this is but one potential which could come from the Change-Wind which now blows, it is an outcome we should remain vigilant for and do everything in our power to prevent. The prevention of this cataclysm will be in the incapable, irresponsible hands of the Worst Generation in Human History™, the Boomers. God, help us all!!!
I continue to hope that we can dodge the crisis entirely or as a secondary option that it will come as a foreign war, although I will probably rue that choice should it occur. Sigh.
Americans of the progressive persuasion will be shocked when the indictments issue
https://www.maddogslair.com/blog/americans-of-the-progressive-persuasion-will-be-shocked-when-the-indictments-issue-jeremiad-alert
They will have heard nothing about the investigation of the corruption of the FBI, DOJ, State, CIA, DNI, and likely other agencies. When dozens of indictments are handed down, dozens of card-carrying progressive Democrats are arrested and charged this will be the first they hear of it. The result is likely to be a shock similar to the election of President Lincoln, or the British marching to disarm Lexington and Concord.
I have no idea what will happen next, but if the results of the two examples above are apropos, the very fabric of the Union could be in jeopardy. Americans were founded out of a civil war; we later fought a national Civil War, it is not out of the question to contemplate that new civil conflict could erupt. The civic fabric is threadbare after decades of culture wars, atomization of society, and a turn from public duty.
Jefferson wrote the greatest aspirational, world-changing, document in human history, the Declaration of Independence. The Americans came together behind that document and fought to ensure it would fully realize its potential. Four score and seven years later (a score is 20 years, so 87 years later) Lincoln addressed the great experiment in a speech at Gettysburg.
"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
Abraham Lincoln
November 19, 1863
By the end of the war, Americans would have embarked on the final push to complete the unfinished business of the Declaration of Independence.
The American tradition was born with these words "...all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed ..." Declaration of Independence: A Transcription. The Declaration of Independence was the aspirational document which set out the American ideals, structured the American tradition and launched America. The Constitution was a document of compromise which tried to follow these ideals as best as possible realizing that for the Colonies to succeed, it was all or none. The success of the most magnificent experiment in human history required unity. And so, we were united, although some of the people did not meet the lofty ideals set out in the Declaration.
The Declaration was not a limit but a brief sounding of the American ideals. Since its creation, we have discovered other essential rights institutions which ensure the American ideals and Americans ability to pursue them. These include republican government, free markets, individual liberty, personal responsibility, the right to freely and securely own property, the rule of law, the government strictly limited by a constitution, free association, including religion, speech, assembly and other rights.
The most celebrated experiment in human history cannot be derailed because a small part of the American population detests American ideals and is willing to undermine the experiment. We need to stand ready to act should the fabric of the Union be placed in jeopardy through the selfish motives of this small but significant part of the American polity.
This still seems an incredible, unbelievable possibility, just as the Revolutionary war, and the Civil War, were incredible, unimaginable thoughts just a few years before they became realities. But they became realities, horrible, deadly and destructive realities which descended on America and which changed the face of America and, indeed, the world.
While this is but one potential which could come from the Change-Wind which now blows, it is an outcome we should remain vigilant for and do everything in our power to prevent. The prevention of this cataclysm will be in the incapable, irresponsible hands of the Worst Generation in Human History™, the Boomers. God, help us all!!!
I continue to hope that we can dodge the crisis entirely or as a secondary option that it will come as a foreign war, although I will probably rue that choice should it occur. Sigh.
Mark Sherman