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).
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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).
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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.
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
The Washington Free Beacon’s Brent Scher used the government’s online FOIA database to count FOIA requests submitted to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) by the New York Times, Washington Post, ABC, CNN, The Hill and Politico during President Barack Obama’s second term in the Oval Office and through Trump’s tenure there.
What Scher found is stark: “Reporters at the Washington Post sent just a single FOIA request to the EPA during Obama’s entire second term, and have sent 43 FOIA requests to the agency since Trump took office.”
Party On, Media Party!
Things you’ll never see on the CBC.
8. But what's this? Once a legacy news org qualifies for a bailout, there's nothing I can see preventing it from getting salary subsidies for their journalists who do audio, video or data. So podcasters CAN get the subsidy, but only if they work for Postmedia, the Globe, etc.
— Jesse Brown (@JesseBrown) March 20, 2019
16. Owners will get $13,750 per newsroom worker they employ making $55K or more. That's millions for the big orgs, & owners/mgmt can just keep it. We are talking about Paul Godfrey, the Thompson family, the Irvings… This is a government handout to millionaires and billionaires.
— Jesse Brown (@JesseBrown) March 20, 2019
Or Postmedia, or Global.
This Is Not Your Grandma’s Humane Society
It’s a frightening prospect to think any person or entity with significant funds could buy editorial time or space to promote a specific ideology, but that’s what’s going on between the Guardian and the Open Philanthropy Project (OPP).
In 2017, the daily U.K.-based newspaper sought and received a grant from OPP to regularly print editorial content in support of OPP’s well-established animal rights agenda. OPP is paying the Guardian $886,600 (USD) to publish a series titled “Animals farmed.” It consists of a steady stream of articles that paint animal agriculture as inhumane, unhealthy and dangerous to the environment. […]
OPP is no ordinary reader. It’s funded by Dustin Moskowitz, one of the founders of Facebook. It has an unapologetic focus on farm-animal welfare – which it has every right to have, by the way – that is led by Lewis Bollard, a former leader at the Humane Society of the United States. It recently handed over $4 million in support of Prop 12 in California. Oh, and it is an investor in Impossible Foods, the maker of the Impossible Burger. The point is, its resources are significant, and it stands to gain financially and otherwise from the furthering of its anti-livestock agenda.
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
Reuters Admits They Sat On Bombshell Beto O’Rourke Story For 2 Years
“While I was looking into the Cult of the Dead Cow, I found out that they had a member who was sitting in Congress. I didn’t know which one,” Menn said. “And then I figured out which one it was. And the members of the group wouldn’t talk to me about who it was. They wouldn’t confirm that it was this person unless I promised that I wouldn’t write about it until after the November election.”
Robert had kind of a tough weekend.