Posted on 06/22/2020 6:13:23 AM PDT by calvincaspian
The pernicious actions of a news organization morphing into an activist crusader were on display this week when NBC News did everything in its power to shut down two competitors using Google to do their bidding.
A reporter from the network gathered information from an obscure left-wing activist group in England called the Center for Countering Digital Hate, which suggested that news sites The Federalist and Zero Hedge were “racist.”
In the group’s page called “Stop Funding Fake News” are screenshots of news sites it has deemed as racist. “Fake News and racist narratives can cause real-world harms,” the page reads. “dehumanising black people and whipping up fear. Stop Funding Fake News is fighting back: we’re calling on advertisers to blacklist these 10, U.S.-based, racist Fake News sites.”
(Excerpt) Read more at lowellsun.com ...
It is akin to a journalist committing an act of arson so that her colleague can report on it. She then can opine on the larger lesson of the conflagration.
We must reject such irresponsibility, loudly. “Shock Jock” radio stations and conservative websites are not the end of the hit list, they are the beginning. No institution is safe from the flame thrower. Especially not now.
There are almost no journalists anymore.
We just have a lot of activists who engage in their activism, and then write about their activism.
Wow, amazing editorial in a newspaper!
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Media wankers setting themselves up in Power Grab like Hitler did.
Remember what happened to Hitler.
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