The media got MANY things wrong about the Russiagate investigation. Here are 10 of them. One wonders if any of the media figures identified in this report feel any sense of regret over their terrible mistakes?
A Decade of Media Corruption
10 years ago today I created a video that illustrated how daft/deaf CNN reporter Susan Roesgen was while standing before Tea Party members. She provided a preview of the incompetence that CNN, MSNBC, and others would exemplify over the last decade.
Dennis Miller and Bill O’Reilly Reunited!
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
The Boston Globe found itself in hot water on Wednesday after publishing an opinion piece from a man who said he regretted “not pissing” on a Neo-conservative pundit’s food and encouraging waiters to “tamper” with the food of outgoing Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen.
Chuck Todd: Poster Boy for the Corrupt Media
Chuck Todd is really full of it:
Chuck Todd and MSNBC’s ‘MTP Daily’ panel discusses the president’s success employing “alternative facts.” Discussing the polarization of the media, NBC’s ‘Meet the Press’ host said: “Every one of my colleagues at MSNBC grounds their arguments in facts. No doubt, they have a point of view, but it is grounded in facts. There are other places that don’t ground their arguments in facts.”
Journalism 101
Tim Pool unpacks the latest #FakeNews coming out of the MSM:
Trump’s America
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
As only Rex can: “So, Trump has won twice. The press have failed twice.”
Russia! Russia! Russia!
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
Target rich environment: “They’re already prepared to attack reporters. ‘Any reporter who tries that will be hit with 30-second spots of all their ridiculous claims about collusion,’ said the source, who, like others interviewed for this story, requested anonymity to describe private conversations. ‘Their tweets have all been screencapped. It’s all ready to go..
What do Rachel Maddow and Jussie Smollett Have in Common?
Here’s an insightful video of what has happened to Rachel Maddow now that #RussiaGate has been revealed for the hoax it always was:
We’ll leave it to the savvy SDA commenters to answer the question posed in the title.
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
The reporters are always the last to know.
Yesterday, I received a call from @DafnaLinzer who serves as managing editor of NBC/MSNBC politics. Dafna’s conduct during the call was highly inappropriate and unethical. So what was the purpose of her call? She called me to bully me on behalf of the DNC.
Via Ed Driscoll (with more).
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
But She Dominated The Schadenfreude Demographic
[…] Maddow, who has consistently vied for the first or second top-rated cable news program, was sixth on Monday evening, down almost 500,000 total viewers from the previous Monday, as was MSNBC’s second top-rated program in primetime, The Last Word With Lawrence O’Donnell.
OUCH: March 25th Cable News scoreboard.
Russia! Russia! Russia!
There were enough of these to fill a book, and I’m sure a few are in the works: The Media’s Russia ‘Bombshells’ Look Even Worse Now That Mueller Found No Collusion
More burn from Piers Morgan
Matt Taibbi’s Lengthy Summation of the #Russiagate Scandal
Matt Taibbi is the former editor of Rolling Stone magazine. He is a man of the Left. But he also has deeply held principles that most members of the MSM have clearly lost or never held in the first place. He has written a very long article that I strongly suspect historians will be studying many years from now to try to understand why so many members of the American Left lost their minds, much like many Yugoslavians did in the 1990’s.
To better understand where Taibbi is coming from, this tweet provides a pretty concise summary:
I’m not “celebrating.” I’m no fan of Donald Trump. I covered his campaign and wrote a whole book ripping him. What I care about it is this profession, which has been marred for a generation by this story.
Grab a coffee or two and read the entire article.
Schadenwald
Check every MSNBC personality, CNN law "expert," liberal-centrist outlets and #Resistance scam artist and see if you see even an iota of self-reflection, humility or admission of massive error. pic.twitter.com/0dSZg7Zlhw
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) March 24, 2019
Glenn Greenwald’s on fire.
Related, though completely inconsequential.
Oh, yes — and there’s also the CBC.
The Libranos: SNC Lavalin and The Buffalo Chronicle
Links to this site keep popping up in the comments, so I decided to take a look.
Sources close to the Conservative opposition leader have told The Chronicle, on the condition of anonymity, that Scheer has reason to suspect that Brison’s resignation on January 10th was part of a wider effort to shield the government and Bank of Montreal executives from wide-ranging improprieties related to the former Kinder Morgan pipeline and its subsequent acquisition.
And this, on March 11th: ‘Political grandmaster’ Frank Iacobucci is at the center of SNC Lavalin, Kinder Morgan scandals
Iacobucci led SNC-Lavalin‘s efforts to secure a ‘Deferred Prosecution Agreement’ last summer and into the fall. He was instrumental in persuading Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to insert the new legal provision as a policy rider into last year’s budget bill, acting as SNC Lavalin’s in-house attorney. […]
Iacobucci sits on the Board of Directors of Torstar, the company that publishes The Toronto Star, The Hamilton Spectator, GTA Today, The Niagara Review, iPolitics, and a series of smaller newspapers. He formerly served as Chairman. The Toronto Star, in particular, has earned a reputation for left-leaning opinion pages and reliably favorable coverage of Liberal politicians.
It’s all highly detailed, so I won’t bother excerpting more. Nor can I provide any opinion on the legitimacy of the content. But one thing’s for sure, it’s gotten under Justin Ling’s skin.
Related? Susan Delacourt’s also testy. (She writes for the Star).
Things You’re Gonna See On The CBC
Asking the questions “still unanswered”…. like children lost in the woods.
Journalism is Dead
With journalism having hit rock bottom since 2016, if not before, some might hope that “professional” journalists would have learned from the error of their ways and taken corrective action. Think again. The prominent NYU Journalism school has hired far left activist Talia Lavin to indoctrinate teach legions of new “journalists”, ensuring that their reporting will continue to be warped. Here’s one of the courses that Lavin will be running: Elective Reporting Topics: Reporting on the Far Right.
Thankfully some are shocked by the hiring of Lavin but it’s unfortunately too late.