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Yellow Journalism Turns Blue
WSJ ^ | 25 Mar 2021 | Kimberley Strassel

Posted on 03/26/2021 8:21:21 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT

Ron Johnson is under attack from a press that’s abandoned honesty and fairness.

“Yellow journalism” means a sensationalized press. Perhaps it is time to introduce “blue journalism”—the new media practice of abandoning standards to work seamlessly with the progressive left against any opposition.

A case study is the attempted political assassination of Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson. The press has never liked most Republicans...

... The paper’s “fact checkers” assailed his “misleading data” and “unscientific take.”

What’s this all about? From the Times story, it amounts to this: Mr. Johnson has refused to brand everyone present in Washington on Jan. 6 as “insurrectionists”; he’s continued to note that last year’s Black Lives Matter protests led to rioting, looting, arson and death; he held hearings on treatments for Covid and 2020 election integrity; and he’s declined, for now, a Covid vaccine, given he had the disease last year and decided to let others go before him.

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"The press is our chief ideological weapon." - Nikita Khrushchev

1 posted on 03/26/2021 8:21:21 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Full article:
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2 posted on 03/26/2021 8:22:46 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT ("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

The Ministry of Propaganda is certainly the most effective weapon of the left.


3 posted on 03/26/2021 8:24:24 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents)(Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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Yellow Journalism Turns Blue

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Didn’t the WSJ just ban the use of the term “Illegal Immigrant” at their “prestigious” newspaper?


4 posted on 03/26/2021 8:28:10 AM PDT by Bishop_Malachi (Liberal Socialism - A philosophy which advocates spreading a low standard of living equally.)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Oh I don’t know the public school systems in University still pretty good job of indoctrination

If you’re not indoctrinated you want by the media bull crap


5 posted on 03/26/2021 8:45:08 AM PDT by Truthoverpower (Fraud !!! Now we’re off the TRUMP TRAIN and on the Swamp express to communist hell !! TRUTH! )
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