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jimnyc
01-23-2019, 02:21 PM
The media, and their retelling of stories, and pushing forth what they want - facts be damned.... and then there are millions out there who do the same on TV, places like Twitter and Instagram, and they too couldn't care less about the truth and facts. :rolleyes:

From before Trump was even elected, they started with the lies, made up stories, defense of lies and made up stories, and refusals to change/update stories when the full set of facts are known. --- the equivalent of someone posting a "gotcha" here and then never returning or responding when stories go south.

And the media is still vilifying these kids, and the "elite" hollywood and otherwise famous folks on social media are also still doing the same. Not only have videos shown the full truth, but this Nathan character is turning out to be not anything like we were told.

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Beating the Drum

As the Covington High School brouhaha reminds us, the media have precast the meaning of every story.

The story of a group of white parochial school kids wearing MAGA hats heaping racist abuse on a dignified Native American Vietnam veteran sparked an inferno of indignation across mass and social media. The incident was depicted as an iconic example of toxic white smugness, as well as a recapitulation of the history of European conquest of the American continent from its earlier inhabitants. Respected journalists and public figures responded to the images of a “smirking” teenager with calls for violence against him, his classmates, and their parents. Even after the story was debunked, many commenters kept their outrage burning, and pointed to photos taken years before, involving none of the participants in the recent event, as evidence that the school— Covington Catholic High School, in Park Hills, Kentucky—is infected by a virulent racism that can be cured only by closing it, razing it, and sowing salt in the ground.

Oddly, the media had learned nothing from its previous rush to judgment. Just days before the Covington story broke, the national media gave blanket coverage to a BuzzFeed report that President Trump ordered his lawyer to perjure himself regarding Trump’s business dealings in Russia. Commentary became so fervent, with members of Congress talking on Twitter of preparing articles of impeachment, that the special counsel broke his two-year silence to refute the report.

Poorly sourced, slanted reporting has become the new standard among prestige media. Three weeks ago, a little girl, black, was shot and killed in a Houston parking lot; initial reports that the shooter was white turned a local police item into national news. The New York Times ran stories on the case for days, exploring the implications of targeted, race-based murder in an age of intolerance. When it emerged that the child was killed by two black gang members gunning for their enemies, coverage of the story ceased.

Reporters have always made errors, but mistakes should occur independent of ideology. What we’re seeing instead is a pattern—media miscues always occur in the same direction, in favor of the liberal perspective. Over the last two years, countless “bombshell” reports have signaled grave danger for the Trump presidency, up to and including impeachment or resignation. Trump’s son got an early look at the Wikileaks pages; Anthony Scaramucci was tied to a dodgy Russian hedge fund; Michael Cohen met Russians in Prague; Paul Manafort met Julian Assange in the Ecuadorian embassy in London; James Comey would testify that Trump was under investigation; and so on. As outrage ebbs from each discredited story, it is relegated to the memory hole in time for the next one to emerge.

Ever since Trump’s arrival on the national stage, the media have devoted themselves to destroying him, and, by extension, the ideologies that supposedly account for his popularity—white supremacy and toxic masculinity. Major media outlets have shed any pretense to rigor or probity, even as they make ostentatious shows of “fact-checking” the president’s statements.

Rest - https://www.city-journal.org/media-miscues-favor-liberal-perspective-covington

jimnyc
01-23-2019, 02:47 PM
And just as much, they should add in some horrible celebrities, those with hundreds of thousands of followers to many millions. Calling for assault and death. :rolleyes:

Chris Cuomo holds them partially responsible for wearing the MAGA hats. Sure, like a woman dressing sexily and getting raped. :rolleyes:

If for not wearing the MAGA hats - this story doesn't get legs. Pathetic bastards.

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Good, Bad & Ugly: How the Media Covered False Smear of Covington Kids

Before all the facts were known, the media ran with a story accusing pro-life activists from Covington Catholic High School of racism during an altercation with left-wing demonstrators at the Lincoln Memorial after the March for Life on Friday. That false narrative began to fall apart almost immediately, once additional video surfaced proving how the original, social media version of the story, was false. NewsBusters has analyzed the coverage and assigned a grade to various prominent media outlets in their handling of the fake news.

Here’s how the broadcast and cable networks, plus key newspapers, covered the story (some of these have been updated since this item was first published on January 22):

https://i.imgur.com/byKc3Pc.png

■ CBS: The broadcast network held off on airing a full report on the story until Monday’s CBS This Morning, when new facts had come to light undermining initial descriptions of the incident. Co-host Bianna Golodryga even warned against “people jumping to conclusions without knowing the full story.”

NewsBusters Grade: Good


■ ABC: The network first covered the story on Sunday’s Good Morning America, and was already casting doubt on the account from liberals on social media. Wrapping up another report on Monday’s GMA, Reshef declared: “There was definitely a rush to judgment by a lot of people.” But ABC failed to acknowledge their own role in that “rush.”

NewsBusters Grade: Bad


■ NBC: It was the first of the broadcast networks to jump on the story, without having all the facts. On Saturday’s NBC Nightly News, anchor Jose Diaz-Balart immediately accepted leftist viral online reaction as the truth, proclaiming: “A troubling scene many are calling racist played out in Washington yesterday..." Not only did NBC fail to retract the story the next day, but Monday’s Nightly News, reporter Ron Allen continued touting claims of “racism” against the teens. During a hostile interview with one of the Covington students aired on Wednesday's Today show, co-host Savannah Guthrie asked if teen owed an "apology" due to his "aggressive" behavior.

NewsBusters Grade: Ugly

■ MSNBC: The cable arm of NBC News was even worse. Not only did MSNBC devote significant air time to the story over the weekend, but the tone of the coverage was nasty. On Sunday’s Kasie DC, a one-sided panel discussion devolved into pundits comparing the Covington students to neo-Nazis and segregationists.

NewsBusters Grade: Ugly


■ CNN: The cable channel spent even more air time on the dubious story than MSNBC. On Saturday, Unfiltered host S.E. Cupp attacked the “mob of MAGA hat-wearing high school students” and claimed they were “clearly...not getting a good education.” After the full facts came out, Cupp took to Twitter Monday morning to apologize for “reacting too quickly to the Covington story.” On his Tuesday night show, anchor Chris Cuomo claimed the students were "victims of their own choices" for wearing "Make America Great Again" hats.

NewsBusters Grade: Bad


■ USA Today: Even after the incident had been debunked, the paper still insisted on publishing a smear against the Covington students, featuring a softball interview with Phillips, who trashed the kids as “beastly” and having a “mob mentality.”

NewsBusters Grade: Ugly


■ New York Times: On Monday, the liberal paper was eager to blast the “racist” teenagers for having “mocked a Native American veteran.”

NewsBusters Grade: Ugly



■ The Washington Post: On Sunday, the paper published a very one-sided article on the front of the Metro section based only on the Native American activist's lies about being “surrounded” by the Covington kids. The headline was “Marcher’s accost [sic] by boys in MAGA caps draws ire.” On Sunday, the paper also published a nasty blog post on “The Catholic Church’s shameful history of Native American abuses.”

By Monday, the paper's article on the top left of the front page was headlined “Fuller view emerges of conflict on Mall.” But a few paragraphs of testimony of “smirking” Covington student Nick Sandmann (beginning inside the paper on page A-15) was vastly outnumbered by Phillips, the Black Hebrew Israelites, and left-wing activists, including Women’s March participant Jessica Travis (who claimed “The kids really went into a mob mentality”) and Nathaniel Dimof, who launched a parody page on Facebook called “Covington Catholic White Male Entitlement High School.”

NewsBusters Grade: Ugly

“Good” news organizations either held off reporting the story until the facts were known, or offered full retractions/apologies after the initial version fell apart. “Bad” news organizations tried to salvage their initial coverage by presenting the true version as a mere complication to an-already established narrative. The “Ugly” side was seen in outlets that used the false story to smear underage kids as evil, racist, Nazis – when the truth was the exact opposite.

https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/kyle-drennen/2019/01/22/good-bad-ugly-how-media-covered-false-smear-covington-kids?utm_source=newsbusters&utm_medium=block&utm_campaign=trending_now&utm_content=NB

aboutime
01-26-2019, 05:38 PM
Thought all of you should know....I have spoken to Retired, Senior Chief, Don Shipleyi in the past. And this is the video he made about the PHONY, STOLEN VALOR Wannabe Indian Drum Trouble Maker with the Catholic Kids last week.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIXIzvyAlLA